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Gameplay Technical Director

Echtra Games
Eugene, OR Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/16/2025
Echtra Games is a medium sized and growing game studio in San Francisco with a team of veteran game developers and visionary newcomers who work both on-site and remotely. At Echtra, we value diversity and support work-life balance. We also have great benefits, an open vacation policy, and flexible schedules!

Position Overview

Echtra Games is looking for an exceptional Gameplay Technical Director to join the team and help craft Echtra’s next exciting cross-platform AAA ARPG game. Do you love gameplay systems? Do you have deep expertise in Unreal Engine 5? Are you a leader who can bring the best out of your team? Are you one of the few people who can ship a AAA game?

We are looking for an experienced gameplay engineering leader to tackle tough projects, manage and mentor a group of gameplay engineers, and maintain engineering standards and best practices. You are an excellent verbal and written communicator, who is detail oriented, and can work across disciplines to solve hard problems and deliver fun gameplay. You must have familiarity with the gameplay systems that are required to build ARPGs, an unquenchable desire to create, and strong knowledge of working with Unreal.

Echtra Games is a medium sized game studio in San Francisco with a team of veteran game developers and visionary newcomers who work both on-site and remotely. At Echtra, we value diversity and support work-life balance. We also have great benefits, an open vacation policy, and flexible schedules!

Main Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the gameplay engineering team and results.
  • Understand game designs and systems, and make them a reality.
  • Lead and mentor a team of gameplay engineers.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, designers, and artists to craft a great gameplay experience.
  • Use your knowledge of the game’s design to ensure systems and designs are faithfully and completely implemented in the game in a timely fashion.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping AAA games in a leadership role.
  • Deep knowledge of the latest versions of Unreal
  • Experience owning large gameplay systems from implementation to shipping.
  • Strong knowledge of C

Pluses

  • Team management experience.
  • Independent development experience.
  • Experience building a 3rd person RPG, ARPG or Looter Shooter.

What We Offer You

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).

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