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The Diablo 4 team is seeking an engineer to join the Gameplay leadership team. In this role, you will be a manager responsible for the development of several engineers, help provide technical vision for Diablo 4 gameplay, and work with leadership of different disciplines to ensure that we’re creating the best possible game for our players. You will be part of a highly motivated and passionate team with a large amount of responsibility across the entire Diablo 4 gameplay experience, and you will join our current Leads on the Gameplay team.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage, mentor, and be a passionate advocate for a team of gameplay

  • engineers

  • Work with design, production, and other gameplay leaders to manage the

  • schedule and backlog

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple gameplay systems and features

  • Be a leadership resource for engineers across the entire gameplay team

  • Foster collaborative connections with all teams

  • Promote, contribute to, and participate in our culture of inclusion and diversity

  • Be involved in hands-on coding, adding new and expanding existing gameplay features

Requirements:

  • Extreme passion for playing and making video games

  • Experience performing in a senior software engineering role or equivalent

  • Leadership potential or previous leadership experience

  • Proficient in C / C++, with a minimum of 5 years programming experience

  • including at least one shipped title

  • Experience working closely in multi-disciplinary teams with people of diverse

  • mindsets

  • Self-motivation and willingness to participate in many areas of game

  • development

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills

​Bonus:

  • In-depth familiarity with the Diablo franchise

  • Experience playing or developing RPGs, ARPGS, and/or MMORPGS

  • Experience working with client / server game systems

  • Experience creating and supporting tools used in game development

  • Computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or related degree

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences… ever.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

  • 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, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;

  • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $121,500.00 - $224,880.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.