Director - Design Management

January 26

🏄 California – Remote

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

💵 $189.1k - $283.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Insomniac Games

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Insomniac Games is a renowned video game developer known for creating popular titles such as Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank. The company emphasizes crafting games that convey positive messages and themes of friendship, self-sacrifice, and overcoming evil. Insomniac Games prides itself on maintaining an inclusive workplace culture, ensuring that their creative outputs reflect the same values they uphold internally. With a focus on both console and PC gaming, Insomniac Games continues to be a leader in the gaming industry.

Games

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1994

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• Responsible for ensuring project quality and the well-being of team members. • Works with design leadership to establish consistent design philosophies, practices, and standards across all projects. • Plays games in development to ensure that we are achieving our operational goals and meeting our quality bar. • Responsible for enforcing project schedules in conjunction with Project Management. • Provides budgeting for the Design department in conjunction with Finance. • Directs the professional development of all Design employees. • Reviews design direction for all projects through the coordinated efforts of design leadership team. • Regularly reviews and provides design feedback for all titles to align with the established creative direction and design direction of each title. • Works with design leadership to establish and coordinate production goals that intersect design and other production departments to achieve short and long-term project goals. • Develops, plans, communicates, and ensures implementation of continuous improvements to the production pipeline. • Implements and maintains a staffing pipeline to support production headcounts, budget, and skills needed. • Participates and presents ideas clearly and concisely to senior management and other project stakeholders. • Ensures that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately to foster a safe work environment. • Other duties may be assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Large team leadership, with experience navigating multiple simultaneous projects. • Creative collaboration and problem solving within the design department and across all departments. • Effective time management, with the ability to delegate tasks and focus on larger issues while monitoring critical smaller details. • Detailed knowledge of all game production methods • A strong critical eye for detail and the ability to communicate effectively with the team and other departments to resolve issues. • Communication with both large groups and individuals, with excellent written and oral communication skills Deadline-oriented approach, with the ability to achieve results given constraints.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Matching 401(k) • Paid time off • Wellness program • Employee discounts for Sony products • Bonus package