Game Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Supervise the design quality across all concurrently running projects and serve as the ultimate point of escalation for design-related issues.

• Advocate for and continuously refine each project's fundamental design vision in collaboration with project leadership.

• Engage directly with Unreal Engine 5 to prototype, fine-tune, or modify gameplay features and systems.

• Direct design efforts across a diverse range of genres, adapting methods to fit both genre and target audience.

• Collaborate with discipline directors to ensure alignment of vision, scope, and processes across projects.

• Develop and maintain consistent design documentation, review processes, and quality standards across SPIN's portfolio.

• Oversee, mentor, and set strategic direction for designers involved in SPIN projects.

• Deliver clear and consistent creative and managerial feedback that enhances the work of designers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in the gaming industry, with at least 5 years in a Game Director position.

• Successfully shipped at least one title as Game Director.

• Extensive expertise in action-adventure games.

• Proven ability to work across a broad spectrum of genres beyond action-adventure.

• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5, capable of directly implementing or adjusting gameplay features as necessary.

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and design teams simultaneously.

• Strong history of providing clear and consistent creative and managerial feedback that enhances others' work.

• Ability to operate effectively at both a high strategic level and a detailed implementation level, depending on project requirements.

• Thrives in a dynamic, prototype-first environment where scope and direction can rapidly change.

• Excellent communicator who can articulate complex design concepts to engineers, artists, and stakeholders.

• Resume required.

• Portfolio examples are encouraged.

• Must be willing to travel for work-related events globally.

🏝️ Benefits

• Supplemental Health and Dental Plans.

• Mental Health support.

• RRSP Retirement Plan with employer matching contributions.

• Stock Option Program.

• Disability Programs.

• Family-forming benefits.

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits.

• Paid leave of absence programs.

• Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off, which can be used for vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

• Full-time salaried employees are immediately eligible for flexible time off.