Game Director (Multiplayer)

Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime".  This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands.  To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occurred since the game's launch 4 years ago.   Role Overview As Game Director you’ll have an important mission: to ensure that unannounced, upcomingMob game’s multiplayer systems properly convey the creative vision and that the vision remainsan integral part of the target co-op player experience. You will take ownership of this title andwork with all key stakeholders to steward its vision, quality, and long-term live-service health asit scales. You will also assist the GM of Games and CCO in reaching the strategic design and live-serviceobjectives set out for our upcoming game by guiding conceptual and systemic decisions throughEarly Access and into ongoing operation. While your design leads focus on their areas ofownership, you’ll pay attention to the larger picture, overseeing the game’s overall outcome:progression, pace, co-op balance across party sizes, live-ops cadence, and quality.You will ensure that all elements related to design, from encounter pacing to post-launchcontent, work together cohesively to keep this upcoming game a rich, fun, and durablemultiplayer experience. What You’ll Do ● Work with the GM of Games and CCO to ensure that design, art, and story stay true tothe vision that was set out in our game design document.● Define best methods for a live, in-market multiplayer title and inform all teams.● Communicate quality and content expectations to the design team on a regular basis,balancing player-facing systems (enemy clarity and counterplay, objective legibility, co-op status) against production constraints so that the systems take constraints intoaccount to ultimately create the optimum user experience for target players.● Translate design and gameplay direction into specs that Level Design and Engineeringcan bring to life, with particular attention to cooperative multiplayer systems and balancetuning across party sizes.● Harmonize design across all departments, making sure design has ready answers andJira requests for Engineering, Art, Sound, FX, etc., so that live content and post-launchupdates do not run behind schedule.● Work hand in hand with other areas of the team: Art, Engineering, and Production toensure smooth operations on a live title.● Report to the GM of Games and ensure he, upper management, and the BrandStewardship Committee are aware of the project’s status on a regular basis,distinguishing incremental improvement work from major pivot proposals.● Own the post-Early Access content roadmap and live-ops cadence, partnering withProduction and Product on monetization design so that content plans are grounded in arealistic operatin...