Tools Director
Larian Studios
About the Role
Larian Studios is hiring a Tools Director to direct and lead a global Tools development team. You will oversee the vision, design, development, and maintenance of internal tools to enhance productivity and creative workflows for our global RPG studios.
Responsibilities
- Direct and lead a global Tools development team.
- Oversee the vision, design, development, and maintenance of internal tools to enhance productivity and creative workflows.
- Enable team members to independently and rapidly add and iterate ideas and content for our games.
- Define the UX vision for all internal Tools.
- Collaborate closely with Creative teams to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into Tool development.
- Collaborate with the Engine and Gameplay teams to create a unified proprietary engine and tool set.
- Ensure tools are user-friendly, reliable, performant, and scalable.
- Ensure a culture of unit testing, automation testing, and documentation is applied during development.
- Ensure tools meet quality and performance targets.
- Ensure tools support large scale game development, including: release management, version control, production analytics, and asset management.
- Ensure tools can be released to player-developers for game modding.
- Hire, onboard, mentor and develop the Tools team.
- Safeguard company assets, including source code, artwork, tools, and technical know-how.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in a directing or senior leadership role.
- 8+ years of experience in creating and shipping games tools or digital creative tools for a large development team.
- Experience developing tools for large scale high production value games.
- Strong team management, mentoring and coaching abilities.
- Strong understanding of industry standard technology, including C#, C++, Python and WPF.
- Strong understanding of modular software systems.
- Proven experience modernising game development tools and executing on long-term technological plans to a high quality, including UI/UX.
- Proven experience working with DCCs, including: Maya, Houdini, and Wwise.
- Upper-intermediate proficiency in English.
- Passion for making and playing great games.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- This is a full-time, on-site role, requiring your presence in the office to support collaboration and creativity.
Benefits
- An international team of over 500 employees spread across 7 studios around the world
- An open, collaborative environment where ideas are welcome and encouraged
- A managerial team consisting of highly experienced game developers at the top of their fields
- Sharing hobbies and passions with like-minded colleagues
- Inclusive environment with many activities organized by the studios or the employees
- Commitment to making the best game possible for the fans
Posted 1 month ago
About the Role
Larian Studios is hiring a Tools Director to direct and lead a global Tools development team. You will oversee the vision, design, development, and maintenance of internal tools to enhance productivity and creative workflows for our global RPG studios.
Responsibilities
- Direct and lead a global Tools development team.
- Oversee the vision, design, development, and maintenance of internal tools to enhance productivity and creative workflows.
- Enable team members to independently and rapidly add and iterate ideas and content for our games.
- Define the UX vision for all internal Tools.
- Collaborate closely with Creative teams to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into Tool development.
- Collaborate with the Engine and Gameplay teams to create a unified proprietary engine and tool set.
- Ensure tools are user-friendly, reliable, performant, and scalable.
- Ensure a culture of unit testing, automation testing, and documentation is applied during development.
- Ensure tools meet quality and performance targets.
- Ensure tools support large scale game development, including: release management, version control, production analytics, and asset management.
- Ensure tools can be released to player-developers for game modding.
- Hire, onboard, mentor and develop the Tools team.
- Safeguard company assets, including source code, artwork, tools, and technical know-how.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in a directing or senior leadership role.
- 8+ years of experience in creating and shipping games tools or digital creative tools for a large development team.
- Experience developing tools for large scale high production value games.
- Strong team management, mentoring and coaching abilities.
- Strong understanding of industry standard technology, including C#, C++, Python and WPF.
- Strong understanding of modular software systems.
- Proven experience modernising game development tools and executing on long-term technological plans to a high quality, including UI/UX.
- Proven experience working with DCCs, including: Maya, Houdini, and Wwise.
- Upper-intermediate proficiency in English.
- Passion for making and playing great games.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- This is a full-time, on-site role, requiring your presence in the office to support collaboration and creativity.
Benefits
- An international team of over 500 employees spread across 7 studios around the world
- An open, collaborative environment where ideas are welcome and encouraged
- A managerial team consisting of highly experienced game developers at the top of their fields
- Sharing hobbies and passions with like-minded colleagues
- Inclusive environment with many activities organized by the studios or the employees
- Commitment to making the best game possible for the fans
Posted 1 month ago
About Larian Studios
Larian Studios is the Belgian independent RPG studio behind Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin. Headquartered in Ghent with offices in Dublin, Guildford, Quebec, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw and Barcelona.
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