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Leads the strategy and execution of external game development partnerships across a AAA project slate. Owns vendor sourcing, RFPs, commercial negotiations, budgets, forecasts, production schedules, workflows, quality reviews, reporting, risk mitigation, onboarding, and offboarding. Partners with production, art, discipline leads, legal, procurement, IT, and security to ensure external work is efficiently planned, delivered, and aligned with internal milestones. Builds the external development function, processes, team structure, and career paths from the ground up.

Design and lead complex systems and gameplay features for online multiplayer games, focusing on economies, reward loops, progression, and player-driven choices. Collaborate cross-functionally to define, document, implement, balance, and iterate features in-engine. Provide design leadership, mentor peers, analyze feedback, validate decisions through economy models and simulations, and align feature execution with broader game goals.

Create, optimize, and maintain high-quality shaders and material systems in Unreal Engine using node-based graphs and HLSL/GLSL/CG. Establish shader standards, build shading tools and validation, profile performance, and collaborate with teams to meet visual and performance targets across platforms.

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Collaborate with UX designers, artists, engineers, producers, backend developers, and audio teams to deliver performant, cross-platform experiences. Establish UI architecture standards, improve workflows, mentor technical designers, support hiring and onboarding, and contribute to the technical roadmap for interactive experience design features.

Design production-ready character concepts from exploration through final turnarounds and documentation. Translate ambiguous creative briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Define visual standards, collaborate with art and cross-functional teams, support 3D translation, mentor artists, improve workflows, and independently manage complex assignments and priorities.

Create benchmark-quality characters, creatures, and weapons across sculpting, modeling, topology, UVs, baking, texturing, materials, optimization, and Unreal Engine integration. Own complex assignments, solve artistic and technical challenges, establish production standards, collaborate across disciplines, mentor artists, manage priorities, and oversee external art vendors to ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with project direction.

The Expert UI Engineer will lead the design and implementation of UI systems for a AAA multiplayer project, mentor a team, and ensure compliance with console requirements while enhancing user experience through innovative design and technology.

Lead a gameplay feature team for an online multiplayer game by setting design objectives, scope, sprint priorities, and execution standards. Manage, mentor, and provide feedback to designers while coordinating cross-functional teams across art, engineering, UI, audio, and VFX. Design and integrate multiplayer systems, evaluate player feedback, make tradeoffs, and guide features from development through live-service launch using Unreal Engine and Blueprint scripting.

Lead online services for a AAA free-to-play cross-platform title: set technical vision, manage Backend and Build engineering, own release management and live operations, partner with Product and Analytics on experimentation and telemetry, and direct frontend online systems including authentication, matchmaking, commerce, and player-safety systems.