Technical Director - External Games
Netflix
- Los Angeles, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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
- Passionate about playing and creating games