Engineering Manager, Fiction Factory

Craft: Technology & Development
Job Description:
Your role within our Kingdom
Day to day, you’ll work closely with our game engine development teams to deliver a compelling product offering to our internal game teams. To do this, you will build trust and a good work relationship with our product manager, agile team coach, QA analysts, product advocates, technical director and developers, ensuring there is enough room for them to operate and be held to account.


As an Engineering Manager you'll be responsible for:
Coach and empower your team so they can excel in building great software, grow in their career and provide goals and feedback toward best performance.
You will have an agile and servant approach to leadership and believe in autonomy and self-improvement. You will lead a team of engineers, QA analysts and product advocates through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development.
Work with the recruiting team to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent and identify needs within the different teams for them to deliver their missions.
Identify and challenge any performance issues in the teams preventing them from reaching the best outcome and you will work closely with the rest of leadership to identify needs and suggest paths of improvement in the organization.


Skills to create thrills
You thrive when developing great people and teams, not just great software and products. Ability to inspire, grow, lead and manage a team to high performance standards.
You have experience managing teams, and have successfully solved many of the tough organisational challenges that follow. You will be comfortable managing teams of 10 to 20 people.
You demonstrate strong verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills.
Bonus points
You have experience in customer focused development.
A software development background.


About King
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.
We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the
company.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!