2k Games

Technical Director, Product Engineering

2k Games$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in AAA game development with shipped titles.
  • Expert in full stack game development including gameplay, UI, and networking.
  • Experience with Unreal, Unity, and C++ engines and common SDKs.
  • Strong C++ coding skills; familiarity with Go and C#.
  • Proven ability to solve problems collaboratively and dependably.
  • Resilient under pressure with a results-oriented mindset.
  • Capable of making and defending technical decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead integration of 2K game tech into AAA titles by guiding a cross-functional team.
  • Define and manage the technical strategy for partner engagements and technical delivery.
  • Mentor and develop technical account managers and solution engineers.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure integration reflects true complexity.
  • Act as a technical decision-maker for high-stakes partner integration challenges.
  • Develop AI-driven workflows to enhance integration efficiency.
  • Identify and address gaps in delivery processes, driving necessary improvements.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the future of game technology integration.
  • Work with a collaborative and influential team across leading game studios.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and platforms for game development.
  • Chance to mentor and grow talent in a dynamic tech environment.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Technical Director to lead the integration team of 2K game and publishing tech into our upcoming AAA titles. In this role, you will lead - by example - a cross-functional team of engineers who will ensure our studios can leverage the full strength of 2K's custom tech and world-class publishing systems.
What You Will Do
  • Provide technical leadership and management for the Partner Success organization's TAM and Solution Engineering teams, setting standards for how technical delivery is scoped, staffed, and executed.
  • Own technical strategy for partner engagements - from architecture evaluation and SDK implementation through configuration and ongoing support - ensuring consistency and quality across the partner base.
  • Grow and mentor TAMs and Solution Engineers, building technical depth and partner-facing skill across the team.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and vertical leads to make sure the Partner Success technical model reflects real integration complexity, not just process.
  • Serve as an escalation point and technical decision-maker for complex or high-stakes partner integrations.
  • Build and champion AI-powered workflows and tooling to make the team faster and partner integrations more frictionless.
  • Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities in how technical delivery is organized, and drive changes to the operating model when needed.
  • Lead through influence - build trust across Product, Engineering, and partner-facing teams, and bring people along on technical decisions rather than mandating them.
What You Bring
  • 10+ years experience in multiplatform AAA game development with multiple shipped titles.
  • Full stack game development experience - from gameplay, UI, networking, and backend services. Expert in integrating, debugging, and optimizing game networking/online, multiplayer, monetization/commerce and identity/accounts subsystems. Familiar with development of low-level systems like streaming, generic serialization, and more.
  • Deep experience with Unreal, Unity, C++ engines and common platform SDKs.
  • Strong coding skills in C++, familiarity with Go, C#
  • Collaborative and dependable with an eye for problem solving.
  • Thrives under pressure. Oriented toward results and unflappable in the face of challenges.
  • Comfortable being the technical decision-maker. You can hold a strong opinion, defend it with evidence, and change it when the evidence shifts.
  • Track record of working effectively across teams without formal authority.
Bonus Items
  • Experience shipping developer tools or platforms in the games industry.
  • Prior experience shipping software on console platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch), including familiarity with platform certification requirements and console-specific SDK constraints.
  • Background in online services, networking, telemetry, or live operations.
  • Prior work building AI-powered developer tooling
  • Open-source contributions, especially to widely-used SDKs or developer libraries.
Why This Role Matters

Our online services platform and SDK gives studios the tools to unlock richer functionality for their games. The strength of our partnerships with these studios is what makes successful integration of our SDK and platform possible. That success is what ultimately lets us deliver the best possible experience to players across every game we support.

About 2k Games

2K Games is an American video game publisher based in Novato, California. The company was founded in January 2005 by Take-Two Interactive, and is best known for publishing the NBA 2K series of basketball games. Other popular franchises published by 2K Games include the Borderlands series, the BioShock series, and the Mafia series. The company has also published several licensed games based on popular movies and TV shows, such as The Walking Dead and WWE.
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