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Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab create world‑class experiences across platforms.\n\nBut what truly powers 2K is our people.\n\nWe believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work.\n\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for an experienced Technical Director to lead the integration team of 2K game and publishing tech into our upcoming AAA titles. In this role, you will lead – by example – a cross‑functional team of engineers who will ensure our studios can leverage the full strength of 2K’s custom tech and world‑class publishing systems.\n\nWhat You Will Do\n\nProvide technical leadership and management for the Partner Success organization's TAM and Solution Engineering teams, setting standards for how technical delivery is scoped, staffed, and executed.\n\nOwn technical strategy for partner engagements — from architecture evaluation and SDK implementation through configuration and ongoing support — ensuring consistency and quality across the partner base.\n\nGrow and mentor TAMs and Solution Engineers, building technical depth and partner‑facing skill across the team.\n\nPartner closely with Product, Engineering, and vertical leads to make sure the Partner Success technical model reflects real integration complexity, not just process.\n\nServe as an escalation point and technical decision‑maker for complex or high‑stakes partner integrations.\n\nBuild and champion AI‑powered workflows and tooling to make the team faster and partner integrations more frictionless.\n\nIdentify gaps, risks, and opportunities in how technical delivery is organized, and drive changes to the operating model when needed.\n\nLead through influence — build trust across Product, Engineering, and partner‑facing teams, and bring people along on technical decisions rather than mandating them.\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n10+ years experience in multiplatform AAA game development with multiple shipped titles.\n\nFull stack game development experience – from gameplay, UI, networking, and backend services. Expert in integrating, debugging, and optimizing game networking/online, multiplayer, monetization/commerce and identity/accounts subsystems. Familiar with development of low‑level systems like streaming, generic serialization, and more.\n\nDeep experience with Unreal, Unity, C++ engines and common platform SDKs.\n\nStrong coding skills in C++, familiarity with Go, C#\n\nCollaborative and dependable with an eye for problem solving.\n\nThrives under pressure. Oriented toward results and unflappable in the face of challenges.\n\nComfortable being the technical decision‑maker. You can hold a strong opinion, defend it with evidence, and change it when the evidence shifts.\n\nTrack record of working effectively across teams without formal authority.\n\nBonus Items\n\nExperience shipping developer tools or platforms in the games industry.\n\nPrior experience shipping software on console platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch), including familiarity with platform certification requirements and console‑specific SDK constraints.\n\nBackground in online services, networking, telemetry, or live operations.\n\nPrior work building AI‑powered developer tooling\n\nOpen‑source contributions, especially to widely‑used SDKs or developer libraries.\n\nWhy This Role Matters\nOur online services platform and SDK gives studios the tools to unlock richer functionality for their games. The strength of our partnerships with these studios is what makes successful integration of our SDK and platform possible. That success is what ultimately lets us deliver the best possible experience to players across every game we support.\n\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.\n\nPlease note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts. Please note that 2K is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. 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