Development Coordinator

Description

Sledgehammer Games is looking for a top tier Development Coordinator to take a leading role working on the Call of Duty franchise. Candidates must be passionate, focused, and driven to excel.  At Sledgehammer Games we have high expectations.  It is our goal to do nothing less than push the craft forward, grow and innovate.  Our core values dictate that we judge success as a measure of direct action that leads to positive results.  Ultimately a Development Coordinator at Sledgehammer Games is a key member responsible for making our high standards a reality. This is done while maintaining the culture and family atmosphere that our studio is built on.  

The Development Coordinator is also responsible for driving to quality targets and owning schedules for Sledgehammer Games.  This is achieved by working closely with the single player campaign leadership to identify needs, utilizing resources efficiently and appropriately.  The goal is to ensure our levels are at an outstanding quality, timely, and cost-effective!  The Development Coordinator will liaise with creative direction partners, create and implement processes for supporting level pods.

The role of Development Coordinator requires candidates to be excellent and persuasive communicators, capable of dealing with a wide variety of internal and external partners. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with all degrees of ownership, from personally managing to pro-active development planning. Development Coordinator candidates must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous (high speed) environment, and be adept at driving quality in line with team, schedule, and budget.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the level team in terms of scheduling guidelines, great collaboration methodologies, and all throughout organization of everything team related.
• Partner up with Creative direction to allow effective communication between studio leadership and the team.
• Develop understanding, tracking, and updates of resources for the team to ensure active management of scope for the team. 

Leadership:

• Develop 1:1 relationship with each member of multidisciplinary team.
• Actively guide team through challenging development of AAA quality single player campaign.
• Keep team informed of active developments throughout the studio, and inform the studio on the team’s progress.

Qualifications:

• Strong management capabilities.
• General understanding of game development disciplines like Design, Environment Art, Animation, and Engineering.
• Proficiency in different project management methodologies, while being able to adapt to a mix of them.

Nice to Haves:

• Active player in the single player FPS genre.
• Experience with wide variety of project management tools.

About us:

Sledgehammer Games, are the Developers of : Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare, and was founded with a singular goal:  Achieve Excellence, while making and having fun!  

We have a state of the art facility, an industry leading development team, and a studio culture built to promote and support world class game developers.  

If you are passionate and driven to do your best work, and have a desire to work on the most successful FPS franchise in the history of video games, please apply online. http://www.sledgehammergames.com/careers