Head of Programming, Keywords Studios
Americas
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Technical & creative services provider
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Technical & creative services provider
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the passion for games, technology, and media to create a global services platform for video games.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience within a senior technical leadership role
- Substantial experience working within game development and contributed to multiple products in a director position
- Exceptional ability to lead, inspire and manage diverse and global technical teams
- Professional experience in the architecture of multiplayer game development
- Expertise in C++ (or relevant programming language) programming skills
- Excellent knowledge of relevant technologies (Unreal Engine, Unity and other proprietary engines) as well as experience with relevant platforms, such as PC and consoles
- Experience of supporting HR initiatives including, but not limited to, development discussions, interviewing and performance management
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to evaluate and comprehend direction
- A great communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and the willingness to accept constructive critique
- Excellent problem solving skills
- A deep understanding of the games industry, market trends and player behaviours
What the job involves
- As a Head of Programming at MPG, you will have a real impact on the industry
- Working shoulder to shoulder with the world’s top developers and publishers to design features and create technical solutions, and then inspire your teams to implement your visions
- Mentoring the next generation of engineers and being at the forefront by pushing the industry to take giant leaps
- We are looking for a Head of Programming who can own and articulate technical visions and provide evaluations for our current Co-Dev and Full-Dev projects as well as future customers, to enable us to keep making true impact for our partners and create amazing experiences for players
- Whilst your expertise is rooted in technical leadership, this role requires a balance of deep technical expertise, strong business acumen and leadership skills to align to our studio’s strategic goals, driving our success across the Americas
- Defining and evaluating technical strategies for current and future clients, ensuring that we are upholding high quality standards
- Shaping the technical vision and driving engineering excellence across current and future projects
- Overseeing a team, or teams of Engineers, with responsibility for performance management and development/pastoral care, ensuring exceptional levels of service to our clients
- Support our VP of Engineering and our other Heads of Engineering in technical discussions with clients on prospective projects as well as active projects within MPG
- Work closely with creative, production and our future development teams to align solutions with project goals
- Setting the technical direction with the support of our Technical Directors on multiple projects as well as considering priorities of projects effectively
- Provide support/input to the People Team on HR initiatives relating to the MPG People Plan
- Advocate quality in MPG and keep aligned with clients development processes, ensuring Engineers on the project are aware and on board with these processes
- Work closely with our Technical Directors and Lead Engineers to minimise technical issues and mitigate risks on projects
- Being a brand ambassador of MPG and endorse quality in MPG’s development process
- Keeping yourself aware and up to date on current programming languages and technologies that are relevant to your role, to ensure you are able to support your team
Our take
Keywords Studios is an international technical service provider to the global video games industry and beyond. The company works as an external development partner for its users, enabling leading content creators and publishers to leverage Keywords' expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. In so doing the company enables its clients who are operating in complex and fast-moving environments to remain lean and agile, and to focus on creating and monetising the most engaging experiences.
The company has over 70 studios in 26 countries across the globe. Providing integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localization, and player support services in more than 50 languages and 16 game platforms.
With a strong market position, Keywords provides services to nearly all of the prominent gaming companies, including T2, EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. Keywords had also been on an acquisition spree, with its total acquisition count sitting at 60 before it was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2024.
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Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- WFH Opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus Schemes
- And More (Varies by Location)
- Paid time off (including sick and select holidays) 🇺🇸
- 401(k) with 3% employer matching 🇺🇸
Company values
- We are passionate
- We thrive on diversity
- We are resourceful
- We celebrate uniqueness
- We value team-work
Company HQ
Carmanhall And Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
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Leadership
Bertrand Bodson
(CEO, not founder)Current Non-Executive Director at Tesco and Wolters Kluwer. Co-Founder & former CEO of Bragster.com (Acquired by Guinness World Records). Previous Chief Digital & CMO at Sainsbury's, and Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents.
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