Lead Player Programmer, Warner Bros Discovery
Office located in London Rocksteady Studios
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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Office located in London Rocksteady Studios
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- A high level of technical ability, including with C++
- Professional games development experience writing a variety of game code
- Experience across multiple genres, particularly third-person action, melee brawlers, and open world traversal games
- A solid understanding of games technology principles
- Effective communication, collaboration and management skills
- Self-directed, organised and able to prioritise effectively
- UE4/UE5 experience preferred
What the job involves
- The Lead Player Programmer role involves leading, supporting and providing guidance to one of our teams of experienced programmers, and in collaboration with other disciplines, enabling them to deliver the highest quality game experience for our players
- You’ll also be applying your technical expertise directly by writing code, architecting systems, and resolving complex and challenging issues
- The focus for your team will vary according to the needs of our projects, for example it may include playable characters, combat, animation code, and other more diverse gameplay areas
- Leading, supporting and guiding a team of experienced player/gameplay programmers, and being their line manager
- Developing the vision and architectural design for characters, controls and
- Camera
- Overseeing development, organisation and delivery of your team’s work
- Working with Production to ensure success in hitting our timelines through
- Effective short- and long-term planning
- Hands-on development and support of gameplay features and systems
- Working closely with Design giving constructive and proactive input on the
- Design of new features and the iteration of existing ones
- Identifying and resolving technical risks before they impact development
- Or content creation schedules
- Providing your team with vision and direction to increase their
- Effectiveness, improve code reliability, and manage tech debt
- Collaborating closely with team members from all disciplines,
- Communicating technical concepts and requirements, and facilitating
- Smooth workflows
- Leading by example in development best practices and helping to
- Continuously improve our development environment
- Engaging in hiring for your team as needed
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Act as One Team: Trust each other, succeed together, and growth together
- Create What's Next: Be curious, innovate, and focus on the future
- Empower Storytelling: Put creators, consumers and partners at the center, and share extraordinary stories
- Champion Inclusion: Empower others, have courage, and pursue equity
- Dream It & Own It: Advocate the mission, ove with speed, and drive results
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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