World Gametech Director

About Gameloft

All Gameloft games are developed in-house. We have the largest development and creation team in the digital games industry: 5,000 developers work in our production studios, allowing us to tackle the formidable task of creating games compatible with devices all over the world. This includes over 7,000 different smartphone/tablet models, iOS and Android devices, and 350 feature phone models. Our 21 studios throughout America, Europe and Asia allow us to combine global vision with local approach. By taking advantage of this unparalleled cultural and linguistic diversity, we adapt our games to each market.

Position

As World Gametech Director at Gameloft HQ you will be part of the World Technology Group that works on technologies for mobile gaming, PC, and consoles as well as Cloud technologies.

We want you to help make Gameloft the first game company on future moon bases without any downtime at all.

Responsibilities

• Communicate, be the go-to person concerning Gametech at Gameloft Coordinate global development with local Technical Directors from studios all over the world 
• Provide your expertise both proactively and on an on-the-need basis
• Rationalize developments and evangelize internal Gametech
• Modernize existing workflows, design best practices
• Ensure our Gametech is a state-of-the-art technology
• You are not afraid to be hands-on and able to deep dive issues, coordinate teams in war rooms to solve specifics design or operational challenges

Missions

• Follow up with technical reviews of the games during key phases of projects
• Drive technology:
  • be involved in R&D activities
  • level up our software factory
  • lead our open sources initiative
• Act as a technical consultant for the HQ production, LiveOps departments challenges
• Deep dive into Gameloft Gametech products then plan and decide roadmap decisions in order to make sure it corresponds to current and upcoming Gameloft needs
• Maintain long term vision: i.e product vision, development guidelines, mutualize cross teams’ development to have a rationalized toolchain

Your qualification

Combine experience in Gametech with strong knowledge of the latest tech, platforms, and processes.

• 15+ years of game development experience
• 5+ years as Technical Director or Lead in large game teams
• Your peers recognize you as a problem solver and team player
• Great XP with C++ C#, inhouse and external game tech tools development
• In depth knowledge of core system programming, console, low end device, mobile
• Expert in designing production pipeline for game teams
• Have shipped several high-quality 3D games on mobile and/or PC and/or console
• Multiplatform development experience is a must have, the more the better
• Have a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or an MBA with equivalent experience

Will be a plus

• Shaders, rendering, physics, multiple 3D engines, animation, AI, UX…
• Cloud technologies knowledge
• DevOps is a plus
• You built it, you ran it, you know the game!

What we offer

• Gameloft is part of a large media group: Vivendi (one of our sister companies is Universal Music Group)
• Permanent contract, full-time position
• We offer relocation support
• An exceptional working environment right in the heart of Paris, halfway between Saint-Lazare Station and the Palais Opera Garnier
• Other benefits at Gameloft HQ:
  • Various fresh fruits at your disposal in the cafeteria will make you go bananas!
  • Unlimited hot beverages whether you like tea or coffee, and if you if you like coffee you'll love our Nespresso machine with coffee from all over the world
  • Sports: Ping-Pong, foosball table, virtual football, real football, yearly football contest at Clairefontaine, yoga classes and many more sports through Gymlib at special pricing!
  • Lunch vouchers, competitive mutual insurance and prudential funds 
• Note for non-French citizens: In France, salaried employees receive health insurance, unemployment insurance, etc. We will explain the details if you need to relocate