Leads the strategy and execution of external game development partnerships for a AAA project. Builds outsourcing pipelines, workflows, trackers, briefs, review processes, and onboarding systems; sources and negotiates with vendors; manages budgets, forecasts, schedules, contracts, milestones, quality, risk, and reporting. Partners with production, art, discipline leads, legal, procurement, IT, and leadership while developing the external development function and future team.