Remote Director, Gameplay Management presso Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games is looking for a Director, Gameplay Management. In this role the Director, Gameplay Management is responsible for leading the team of Gameplay programmers to deliver excellent results for multiple games. This role collaborates with Gameplay leaders to shape a vision for gameplay development at the studio, then builds strategies to execute that vision to ensure industry-best outcomes for the game product and the work environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Develops studio goals in collaboration with studio leadership.
• Defines, evangelizes, and executes the studio’s near- and long-term gameplay programming vision, strategy, and goals, balancing innovation with operational efficiencies in alignment with the studio’s overall business and creative objectives.
• Manages and develops programming directors, managers, and leads to ensure collaborative development practices and excellent project results.
• Ensures that gameplay managers effectively execute company policy and process, including hiring, onboarding, career-pathing, goal setting, performance managing, staffing, and scheduling.
• Develops and implements a department structure that maximizes both the quality of work and employee well-being.
• Collaborates with project leaders to build staffing plans; ensures that the gameplay department is positioned to achieve studio and project goals through internal, contract, and co-dev headcount.
• Reviews milestone builds, user research studies, and milestone feedback to identify key development challenges in coordination with project and studio leadership.
• Ensures that programmers participate in the studio’s collaborative engineering culture to find efficiencies across projects and maintain codebase quality over time.
• Supports global initiatives within studio, PlayStation Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with partners at PlayStation Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and external vendors.
• Maintains a current awareness of technologies and processes throughout the game industry.
• Ensures that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately to foster a safe work environment 
• Other duties may be assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises gameplay programming leads and directs studio department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Large team leadership, with experience navigating multiple simultaneous projects
• Creative collaboration and problem solving, with an understanding that often it is appropriate to defer to the expertise of specialists
• An engineering background, with experience as an individual contributor in a programming role
• Demonstrated high-level business, strategic and contemporary management skills and oriented both towards the big picture and operational detail
• Effective time management, with the ability to delegate tasks and focus on larger issues while monitoring critical smaller details
• A strong critical eye for detail and the ability to communicate effectively with the team to resolve issues
• Communication with both large groups and individuals, with excellent written and oral communication skills
• Deadline-oriented approach, with the ability to get results even in difficult situations
• A leadership style that is marked by personal visibility, open communication, relationship building, collegiality, and teamwork
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and the poise and the ability to relate effectively to others at all levels, state a point of view, and advocate for a position within a strong and assertive senior executive group

Performance indicators:

• Vision execution, measured by the consistency of engineering excellence across projects
• Strategic thinking, measured by the department’s ability to achieve project goals
• Team building, measured by the effectiveness of programmers in tracks and pods
• Department autonomy, measured by the volume of self-generated initiatives and improvements
• Department deliverable quality, measured by the quality of systems, features, and mechanics relative to industry-best titles
• Date reliability, measured by department progress toward milestone completion
• Department efficiency, measured by the volume of relevant tasks and rework
• Department morale, measured by survey data and manager assessment of sentiment

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and linear algebra. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills: Expertise in an application programming language (C++ preferred). Some familiarity with a scripting language such as Python or JavaScript. Ability to understand and adhere to the prevalent coding style and practice. Understanding of procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms. Adaptive coding style. Visual Studio experience, JSON, and Maya experience a plus.  Ability to use common workplace software like Microsoft Office products.