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Define and elevate visual identities, creative territories, brand systems, and integrated marketing campaigns for 2K’s Core game franchises. Partner with strategists, marketers, studios, production teams, and agencies to translate positioning into compelling visual direction. Develop concepts, mood boards, testing materials, guidelines, and toolkits; lead creative reviews; ensure quality, accuracy, cultural relevance, and consistency across channels while managing multiple projects and timelines.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C/C++ graphics code and HLSL shaders for NBA 2K. Implement rendering technologies, optimize GPU performance, improve VFX, lighting, and post-processing, collaborate with art and design teams, and support system-wide rendering technology upgrades.

The Senior Director of Product Management will lead product strategy and team efforts to enhance player engagement and revenue for 2K Sports Lab's games.

Design and implement player-facing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, collaborating with design, art, animation, and audio. Architect features for player verbs, camera, weapons, and 3C systems, identify and mitigate technical risks, maintain code quality, documentation, and testing, and debug complex gameplay issues to help realize the creative vision for BioShock.

The Expert UI Engineer will lead UI development for a AAA multiplayer game, focusing on performance, accessibility, and certification compliance while mentoring a team of engineers.

Leads a multiplayer game feature team by setting design objectives, managing and mentoring designers, defining sprint and milestone priorities, evaluating gameplay, and coordinating cross-functional execution. The role requires expertise in multiplayer systems, competitive PvP design, gameplay theory, feedback analysis, tradeoff management, Unreal Engine, and Blueprint visual scripting.

Leads and mentors gameplay animators developing high-end player-character and AI animations. Establishes animation vision, pipelines, workflows, tools, onboarding, Unreal Engine training, and motion-capture planning. Creates hand-key and motion-capture animations, collaborates on production roadmaps and sprint planning, delegates tasks, resolves blockers, supports hiring, and promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration and a positive team culture.

Lead online services for a AAA free-to-play cross-platform game: set technical vision, manage backend and build teams, own release management, launch readiness, observability and incident response, partner with product and analytics to deliver experimentation, telemetry, remote config, and engagement tooling, and direct frontend systems like authentication, matchmaking, social features, commerce, and player safety.

Lead and grow a lighting team to define and execute real-time lighting for immersive AAA games. Establish visual standards, optimize lighting workflows, collaborate with Art, Tech, and Production to meet runtime and timeline constraints.

Define commercial strategy for live-service games: design monetization frameworks, build financial models and forecasts, establish KPIs and dashboards, support Live Services P&L, perform market/competitive analysis, and partner cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, analytics, and finance to inform business decisions.