Technical Director

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October 15

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $272k - $355k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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That's No Moon

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Gaming • Media

That's No Moon is an independent AAA game development studio founded by veterans of some of the industry's most acclaimed creative teams. The company aims to craft a new generation of narrative-driven, genre-defining experiences that will span both interactive and linear media. With a roster of award-winning talent and decades of experience, That's No Moon is backed by a significant investment from Smilegate, known for the blockbuster 'CROSSFIRE' franchise and the MMO RPG 'Lost Ark'.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy for Unreal Engine usage, balancing existing proprietary systems with evolving UE5 capabilities. • Evaluate and direct the future of proprietary tech: determine what to maintain, refactor, or replace with native Unreal solutions, and assign work accordingly. • Partner with the Game Director, Art Director, and Production Director to ensure technical decisions align with creative vision, production priorities and project feasibility. • Define and maintain a clear technology roadmap through ship, including milestones, risks, and dependencies. • Provide technical leadership across the engineering team: mentorship, standards and clarity of direction. • Own and enforce performance targets (eg. frame rate, memory budgets, load times, streaming). • Oversee build stability, integrations and platform certification readiness. • Manage relationships with external studios, middleware providers and platform partners to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues. • Identify long-term technical risks and debt and drive mitigation strategies proactively.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven Unreal Engine 5 shipping experience, ideally on a AAA console/PC title. • Deep experience with gameplay systems, AI, streaming and performance optimization. • Strong background in engine architecture and tech refactoring. • History of providing technical direction at a leadership level and driving alignment across creative, production and engineering. • Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with shipping viability, making tough calls to protect schedules and stability. • Excellent communication skills, able to clearly translate complex tech decisions to non-technical partners. • Track record of cross-platform delivery and platform certification.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • 401(k) match • flexible PTO • supplemental life and disability