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Design Manager
Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA, United States
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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an exceptionally skilled design manager to join the Diablo team! The ideal candidate possesses outstanding management, communication, organization and design skills, and a thorough understanding of inter-department dynamics within game development.
Responsibilities
• Work with the game director, design leads, and producers to manage individuals across the entire design department.
• Mentor design leads on management and leadership, as needed.
• Supervise designers and provide work direction, performance reviews, and coaching for the team.
• Create and implement action plans for the design department's future success emphasizing training and development.
• Administer staffing decisions that help achieve both the short and long term goals of the design team.
• Work with production to help insure proper workflow throughout the design department.
• Partner with the game director and design leads to manage career paths of the design team.
Requirements
• Strong communications and organizational skills
• Able to handle a wide range of personnel issues including recruitment, career development, and conflict resolution
• Able to manage a large team of designers in a dynamically changing game production environment
• Able to interact as part of a team and to contribute to increasing productivity goals and efficiencies
• Able to successfully deconstruct broad feature goals into prioritized tasks
• Able to build consensus on overall goals and balance resource allocation based on project goals and individual ability
• A minimum of 3+ years’ management experience
Pluses
• Have shipped AAA PC, or console titles as an design department manager or design lead
• Game design, or content creation experience
• Expertise with Microsoft Office
• Passionate gamer with experience playing a wide range of games