Tools Director, Larian Studios
RPG developer
Open for applications
RPG developer
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create world class video games.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in a directing or senior leadership role
- 8+ years of experience in creating and shipping games tools or digital creative tools for a large development team
- Experience developing tools for large scale high production value games
- Strong team management, mentoring and coaching abilities
- Strong understanding of industry standard technology, including C#, C++, Python and WPF
- Strong understanding of modular software systems
- Proven experience modernising game development tools and executing on long-term technological plans to a high quality, including UI/UX
- Proven experience working with DCCs, including: Maya, Houdini, and Wwise
- Upper-intermediate proficiency in English
- Passion for making and playing great games
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- Direct and lead a global Tools development team
- Oversee the vision, design, development, and maintenance of internal tools to enhance productivity and workflow efficiency
- Enable team members to independently and rapidly add and iterate ideas and content for our games
- Collaborate closely with creative teams to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into tool development
- Collaborate with the Engine and Gameplay teams to create a unified proprietary engine and tool set
- Ensure tools are user-friendly, reliable, performant, and scalable
- Ensure a culture of unit testing, automation testing, and documentation is applied during development
- Ensure tools to meet quality and performance targets
- Ensure tools can be released to player-developers for game modding
- Hire, onboard, mentor and develop the Tools team
- Safeguard company assets, including source code, artwork, tools, and technical know-how
Our take
Gaming is a vastly popular industry across the globe, and few genres command as much loyalty as role-playing games. And Belgian developer Larian Studios has firmly positioned itself at the forefront of that space. Built by and for passionate RPG players, the studio has developed a reputation for prioritising depth, player agency and long-term quality over rapid production cycles.
That philosophy reached its commercial and critical peak with Baldur's Gate III in 2023, a landmark release for the company that delivered hundreds of hours of narrative gameplay and generated $249M in pre-tax profit in 2024, cementing Larian's place among the industry's elite.
Since then, the studio confirmed its not developing Baldur's Gate 4 and has instead shifted resources toward the next evolution of its flagship fantasy series, Divinity. Post-launch support for Baldur's Gate III has continued and additional patches and quality-of-life improvements have been added, helping sustain a thriving modding community and long-term player engagement.
So, now the company has turned its focus to Divinity, announcing at The Game Awards 2025 that there will be a new entry to the franchise. Early commentary suggests the project will retain the studio's hallmark turn-based systems while pushing technical and narrative boundaries further.
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Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Rabot, Gent, Vlaams Gewest
Leadership
Swen Vicke
(CEO)Swen has served as the CEO since founding the company.
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