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Creative Director - External Development

1 day, 9 hours ago
Canada
Full-time
Lead
Design Lead
Project and Program Management
Game Design Game Development
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Blackbird Interactive

Blackbird Interactive

Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is an independent game development studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2010 by industry veterans, BBI is known for creating immersive strategy and adventure games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak and Hardspace: Sh...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2010
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Description

  • Partner with the Executive Producer and Technical Director to lead and oversee the External Development portfolio.
  • Establish, communicate, and maintain creative intentions and quality bars across projects.
  • Drive due diligence for new partner opportunities by evaluating gameplay, presentation, user experience, modernization opportunities, production complexity, and quality expectations.
  • Review project roadmaps, feature plans, and major initiatives to prioritize the highest-value work within schedule and budget constraints.
  • Identify risks, planning gaps, and mitigation strategies with project leadership teams.
  • Break down complex creative, gameplay, UX, technical, and production challenges into clear initiatives, ownership, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Design, Art, UI/UX, Engineering, Production, Technical Art, and QA teams to align quality expectations and delivery strategies.
  • Facilitate alignment between clients, leadership, and development teams on priorities, scope, quality expectations, and execution plans.
  • Participate in project reviews, milestone planning, roadmap discussions, and quality assessments across the business unit.
  • Help establish scalable frameworks, planning methodologies, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across projects.

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading product, creative, design, or development teams in commercial game development.
  • Experience shipping multiple titles.
  • Experience working with external publishing partners or in co-development and partner-led production environments.
  • Strong product judgment and the ability to make pragmatic recommendations that maximize player and business value.
  • Experience collaborating across Design, Art, UI/UX, Engineering, Production, and QA.
  • Ability to analyze complex project challenges and develop clear, actionable solutions.
  • Experience reviewing roadmaps, production plans, and feature proposals and challenging assumptions when needed.
  • Experience presenting recommendations and influencing decisions with project leadership, studio leadership, and partners.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with a collaborative leadership style.
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and project leadership levels.
  • Experience leading or contributing to ports, remasters, remakes, franchise modernization, or live service projects (bonus).
  • Experience in external development or co-development production environments (bonus).
  • Experience as an Art Director, Creative Director, Game Director, Design Director, Development Director, or Product Lead on shipped titles (bonus).
  • Experience supporting business development activities such as opportunity assessment, project pitches, or RFP responses (bonus).
  • Experience evaluating legacy titles and identifying modernization opportunities while preserving the original game’s identity (bonus).
  • Experience developing studio-wide frameworks, review processes, planning methodologies, or quality standards (bonus).
  • Experience across multiple genres, platforms, engines, or business models, including AAA, AA, mobile, PC, console, or live operations (bonus).
  • Active interest in industry trends, player expectations, and best practices in game design, accessibility, user experience, and franchise development (bonus).

Benefits

  • Remote-first workplace with flexible work arrangements.
  • Opportunity to work on a wide range of projects across multiple genres.
  • Long-term career growth within an independent studio.
  • Projects include world-class IPs as well as original creations.
  • Must be legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in Canada.

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