Senior Development Director

Summary

Join Believers, a game company dedicated to player experience, as a Senior Development Director. You will collaborate with leadership and various disciplines to focus on creating resonant games. Responsibilities include translating product vision into executable roadmaps, driving team progress, prioritizing impactful features, and building efficient processes. You will maintain visibility on product progress, risks, and team health, while fostering team motivation and alignment with product goals. This role requires extensive experience in game development leadership and a proven track record of team scaling and leadership development. Believer offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a leader (3-to-100+ people) in game development, with at least 2 delivered live titles
• Proven track record of team scaling and leadership development
• Experience shipping a game from prototype

Responsibilities

• Using your experience as a leader in game production, you’ll help the team maintain focus on delivering player value and provide leadership with great visibility into product progress and risks
• You’ll help the team relentlessly prioritize the most impactful features while ensuring alignment with product and business goals
• You’ll move teams towards predictability using a combination of process and relationship building, and keep a keen eye on product progress, risks and team health
• You’ll build lightweight processes in service of the player and product while flexing to let teams have room to tailor their processes for their own requirements
• You’ll provide a strong production voice for the leadership team to help maintain scope control and risk visibility, and push for places to make the game or team better; improving velocity, reducing risk, or shifting attention
• Maintain visibility for Product and Studio leadership on product progress, risks and team health, via structured process and organic conversations
• Work with the Game Director, Studio Leadership, and Players to gather and document the goals the product must meet for its players
• Develop and oversee communication systems to cascade clear priorities from Leadership to teams and build systems for making and reviewing commitments
• Build and maintain overall product roadmap, including features and release for broad visibility across the organization
• Help to create priorities from the cloud of goals that teams would like to deliver for players
• Foster intrinsic motivation within teams to align them with product goals and processes
• Leads production discipline, accountable for craft, resourcing and guidance for production support (focused on delivery leadership)
• Support the creation, curation, and oversight of implementation of a multi-year audience focused strategy that will delight Players

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $222,000 - $308,000
• Great compensation package and equity
• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans
• Access to Rightway service to help you navigate health insurance
• Spring Health mental health services
• 10 observed holidays + 10 days for Winter Break and "Take What You Need" PTO policy
• Remote-friendly team #LI-Remote