Technical director

We Are DICE

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Battlefront franchise, and the creative game Mirror's Edge.

The DICE UI team creates the layer between fiction and reality. Our mission to immerse players makes DICE UI technology challenging and fun. Challenges are given by UX design, but also rendering performance and implementing our art direction. At DICE, nothing is impossible and if a feature makes the experience better for our players we will make it work.

Technical Director - UI

We are looking for a Technical Director within the UI domain who is passionate about making great games within a collaborative team of experienced developers. Reporting to the game technical director, you will enable the UI team to deliver world class features while setting the future direction for the UI technology stack. As Technical Director, you will work with other product leaders and technical partners as a technical expert for the game team.

You have extensive experience working in the UI domain in game development. You can communicate complex ideas in simple-to-understand ways, you have knowledge of software engineering practices, and you have a high technical aptitude. You are able to balance strategic thinking and tactical direction to bring and maintain stable, scalable, cost-effective games with focused innovations.

Key Responsibilities

• Set project technical standards for us to achieve and maintain technical quality throughout production.
• Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of technical deliverables
• Improve team efficiency through identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions
• Understand the business needs of the project and apply technical and management skill to meet goals
• Collaborate and manage partnerships with internal technical partners and EA central groups
• Help establish the product vision and manage expectations for production and design
• Partner with Development Directors on development processes and planning
• Conduct research necessary to achieve desired outcomes and evolve our technology
• Manage and enable outsourcing

Qualifications

• 8+ years software development experience
• Leadership experience developing and launching games or running a large-scale live service
• Solid knowledge of game UI technology
• Expertise in C++
• Experience working with remote teams
• A love for making and playing games
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