Game Director, SPIN

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own design quality across concurrent projects and act as the final escalation point for design issues.
• Develop and iterate each project’s design vision with project leadership.
• Prototype, tune, or adjust gameplay features and systems directly in Unreal Engine 5.
• Guide design across genres and adapt direction to each genre and audience.
• Align vision, scope, and process with other discipline directors.
• Establish design documentation, review processes, and quality standards across the portfolio.
• Manage, mentor, and direct designers, providing creative and managerial feedback.

Candidate requirements

• At least 15 years of games industry experience, including at least 5 years in a Game Director role.
• At least one title shipped as Game Director.
• Deep action-adventure expertise and ability to work across a wide variety of genres.
• Hands-on proficiency in Unreal Engine 5 and gameplay implementation or tuning.
• Experience managing multiple projects and design teams in parallel.
• Strong creative and managerial feedback skills; able to work strategically and at detailed implementation level.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, prototype-first environment and able to communicate complex design ideas across disciplines.
• Comfortable with touch-based UX on the Netflix Controller (NGC).
• Willing to travel for work-related events around the world.

Workplace

• Remote position based in Toronto or Montreal; work-related travel around the world is required.

Compensation

• Compensation is structured as annual salary, with a stated range of $210,000 to $390,000.
• Employees choose the annual balance between salary and stock options; the company states it does not provide bonuses.

Benefits

• Benefits include health and dental plans, mental health support, RRSP matching, stock options, disability programs, family-forming benefits, life and serious injury benefits, and paid leave.
• Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.