Hybrid Senior Technical Director – Temp, SFD, Cinematics

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About the role

  • Senior Technical Director supporting artists and technical workflows in cinematics at Blizzard Entertainment. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to bring iconic stories to life.

Responsibilities

  • Join Blizzard Entertainment's Cinematics team as a Senior Technical Director
  • Support artists and their workflows, building tools, solving technical challenges
  • Develop innovative technology to bring iconic stories to life
  • Collaborate closely with artists, producers, and fellow technologists

Requirements

  • Strong background in software development, with experience in developing, modifying, deploying, and debugging software on Linux and Windows environments
  • Experience writing tools or plugins for widely used third-party computer graphics programs
  • Solid understanding of computer graphics (CG) pipelines and workflows
  • Experience with third-party computer graphics programs such as Maya, Houdini, or Katana
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-departmental interactions
  • Proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming
  • Genuine interest in a technical support capacity, assisting artists and team members
  • Ability to adapt to shifting priorities during production schedule changes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account
  • Healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts
  • Life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs
  • Free and discounted games
  • A variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance

Job title

Senior Technical Director – Temp, SFD, Cinematics

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$101,000 - $186,754 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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