Blackbird Interactive

• Build gameplay systems, including narrative, exploration and inventory. • Support artists and animators with the Metahuman pipeline. • Partner closely with designers to build high quality and fun experiences. • Integrate modern Unreal pipelines to improve efficiency and quality of the game. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders about technical constraints, trade-offs, dependencies, and execution plans.

• Be the first engineer on the project - establish pipelines and workflows for engineering and art, pick which technologies to use and help guide artists and designers to achieve project goals. • Lead the technical direction and implementation of core gameplay and runtime systems in the engine. • Partner closely with design and content teams to build high quality and fun experiences. • Drive engineering quality across gameplay code, emphasizing performance, maintainability, extensibility, and production-readiness. • Establish engineering best practices for Unreal Engine 5 development, including code review standards, debugging workflows, profiling habits, and technical planning. • Collaborate with technical leadership to break down risks, define implementation strategies, and align engineering execution with project goals and production timelines. • Mentor engineers through design reviews, hands-on problem solving, and day-to-day technical guidance. Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and raising the overall quality bar of the team. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders about technical constraints, trade-offs, dependencies, and execution plans.

• Partner with the Executive Producer and Technical Director to provide leadership and oversight across a portfolio of projects within the External Development business unit. • Help establish, communicate, and maintain creative intentions and appropriate quality bars across ports, remasters, live service initiatives, and co-development projects. • Drive creative and product due diligence for new partner opportunities, evaluating gameplay, presentation, user experience, modernization opportunities, production complexity, and quality expectations to inform proposals, staffing strategies, and project planning. • Evaluate project roadmaps, feature plans, and major initiatives to ensure teams are pursuing the highest-value opportunities within schedule and budget constraints. • Work with project leadership teams to identify risks, uncover gaps in planning, and support mitigation strategies. • Help teams decompose complex creative, gameplay, UX, technical, and production challenges into clear initiatives, ownership structures, dependencies, and measurable outcomes. • Collaborate with Design, Art, UI/UX, Engineering, Production, and Technical Art teams to align quality expectations and delivery strategies. • Support teams in evaluating trade-offs between quality, scope, schedule, cost, and player value. • Facilitate alignment between clients, project leadership, and development teams regarding 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, and best practices that improve consistency across projects. • Support project leaders and multidisciplinary teams by providing guidance on prioritization, initiative structuring, quality evaluation, and solution development. • Communicate recommendations, risks, dependencies, and strategic considerations clearly to internal and external stakeholders. • Contribute to the long-term growth and maturity of the business unit through leadership, mentorship, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Act as a bridge between Art, Engineering, and the game engine, helping teams communicate effectively and solve cross-disciplinary problems • Support artists with art-to-engine integration, including setup, debugging, and optimization of assets and systems, as well as housekeeping and naming conventions • Design, build, and maintain tools, scripts, and workflows that improve artist productivity and content quality • Collaborate with artists on animation, modeling, texturing, shaders, FX, Destruction and other real-time content disciplines • Help identify visual or performance issues and devise high-quality solutions within technical constraints • Contribute to the development and maintenance of art pipelines and production processes • Generate clear, concise documentation for tools, workflows, and pipelines • Take ownership of technical challenges, work with minimal supervision, and proactively propose improvements

• Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines. • Take ownership of lighting direction in collaboration with Art Leadership to establish a strong, cinematic atmosphere and great composition. • Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments. • Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance. • Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent. • Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices. • Mentor an intermediate Lighting Artist in the production pipeline and provide actionable creative feedback

• Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams • Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk • Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time • Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities • Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met • Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve • Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners • Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members. • Manage direct reports and support career growth • Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders • Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.

• Manage the general ledger, ensuring accurate and timely preparation of monthly and quarterly financial statements. • Oversee core accounting functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, vendor payments, and payroll (employees and contractors). • Lead all aspects of tax compliance (corporate filings, GST/HST, IDMTC, SR&ED) and support external audits and government reporting. • Track and manage cash flow, foreign exchange activity, and treasury operations to ensure liquidity and risk control. • Maintain structured templates and systems (e.g., GL entries, vendor tracking, payroll, invoicing) to standardize finance workflows. • Oversee revenue recognition and milestone billing for co-development and partnership contracts. • Manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and financial institutions to support ongoing compliance and reporting requirements. • Continuously improve financial processes, ensuring scalability, accuracy, and control as the company grows.

• Prototype, implement, and iterate on gameplay content such as game flow, interactable objects and player abilities, event hooks for narrative and audio content, scripted sequences, tutorial/help systems, and bug fixing. • Collaborate with both artists and designers on ways to improve the game content implementation to take advantage of existing technology and drive to the best end result possible. • Collaborate with engineers to improve design workflows and bring gameplay intentions to life while respecting performance and technical constraints • Work with producers and team leadership to assess requirements and provide effort estimates and updates to help ensure the team reaches its goals successfully

• Collaborate with design, engineering, animation, and production to support and implement the established creative vision, identifying opportunities where audio can improve player experience, immersion, and gameplay clarity • Work within production schedules and constraints, creating and implementing audio content in a timely and iterative manner while communicating risks, dependencies, and technical requirements • Design, create, edit, and implement sound effects for gameplay systems, weapons, characters, environments, vehicles, and scripted events • Develop and maintain interactive audio systems that support player feedback, combat readability, navigation, squad coordination, and overall gameplay experience • Implement audio directly in-engine using established tools and middleware, ensuring content functions reliably across gameplay scenarios and platforms • Test, debug, and iterate on audio content regularly, identifying and resolving issues related to mix, clarity, performance, implementation, and player comprehension • Respond constructively to feedback, refining audio assets, implementation, and mix balance to improve immersion, readability, and overall quality • Help establish and maintain audio quality standards, best practices, and implementation workflows across the project

• Implement enemy and companion behavior, perception systems, decision-making trees, and high-level strategies using Behavior Trees, EQS, MassAI, and GAS. • Design scalable, modular AI systems that support a range of enemy types, factions, and emergent behaviors across PC and console targets. • Leverage UE5’s MassEntity and crowd simulation systems to support large-scale AI interactions and tactical group behaviors. • Work closely with designers and animators to bring characters to life and ensure AI reacts believably and responsively in gameplay. • Profile and tune AI performance across platforms; diagnose and fix bugs to meet framerate and memory targets. • Participate in code reviews, provide mentorship to junior developers, and contribute to best practices in AI code and design. • Stay on top of UE5 AI tech advancements, prototype new techniques, and share your findings through internal demos and discussions.