Partner with Head of External Games and Head of Tech for Games Studios on the broader technical and engineering strategy to ensure dots are connected across the organization
Accountable for Technical Leadership across External Games including External developers, the games they are creating, and cross-functional partnerships
Connecting Strategy to Technical Considerations and Opportunities and supporting BD and Producers to execute with these considerations in mind
Partnering with BD and cross-functional teams on External Developer due diligence
Drive highly effective collaboration across multiple cross-functional partners and External Games, primarily with Partner Engineers, Platform, Product, Games Technology, and Cloud Streaming Teams.
Partner with Engineering on supporting the needs of developers specific to the games they are releasing on Netflix
Partner with Engineering and Product on TRCs and Security requirements to ensure they filter correctly to our External Developers
Qualifications:
Experience as a Technical Director in both publishing and game development is a must
8+ years experience shipping multiple games (social, F2P, mobile, web, console, handheld)
Experience with multiple complex engineering problems across a variety of genres
Familiarity/expertise in a wide spectrum of game-relevant technologies including Unity, Unreal, “custom” engines, backend services and systems, game platforms, etc.
Excellent communication approach with the ability to work with a variety of people
Ability to influence direction, without relying on positional authority
An uncanny knack for arriving at solutions through unconventional methods and developing a plan to put them into action