• Working closely with our Game Director, Project Director, Lead Producer, and other discipline leads, you’ll lead the engineering team across a variety of technical areas. • Help define the game’s technical direction, guide the team through production realities, and make sure the engineering work supports the player experience we’re trying to build. • Help the team understand the technical shape of big ideas, negotiate tradeoffs, identify risks, and turn creative ambition into practical engineering plans. • Own the game’s technical direction, help define architecture and implementation approaches, and keep engineering decisions aligned with where the game is actually going. • Provide clear direction, thoughtful feedback, coaching, workload management, and career support so the team can do great work without burning out. • Stay hands-on where it matters by coding, reviewing, debugging, troubleshooting, and jumping into implementation when the team needs it. • Work with design, art, production, audio, narrative, and other teams to pressure test features, identify technical needs, and ensure cool ideas can survive contact with real development. • Spot risks early by identifying technical concerns, staffing gaps, pipeline issues, scope problems, and lurking tech debt before they become giant production headaches.

• Use Unity to modify and iterate on Paper.io 2, adapting gameplay to make it attractive and engaging for advertising campaigns • Design custom setups, including animations, scenes, environments, skins, rebranding, and code changes for creative video production • Record, edit, and upload Paper.io 2 gameplay videos for global ad campaigns to be tested • Share modified game builds and creative assets with the marketing team for testing • Analyze ad performance and benchmark competitors to improve creative output

Role Description The Office of Innovation (OIN) is an important instrument within FAO to provide strategic direction and help drive and coordinate innovation across the work of the Organization. The purpose of this call is to build a roster of Serious Game and Policy Game Specialist to support FAO’s work at global, regional and country levels. Assignments may be home‑based with travel as required. Technical Focus - Provision of innovation methodologies, tools and strategic support related to: - Design, development, and facilitation of serious games and policy simulation games in both physical (including gamebooks) and virtual/digital formats. - Participatory and experiential methodologies, systems thinking, and co-creation tools applied to complex agrifood systems and policy environments. - Utilization of virtual gaming platforms and digital collaboration tools to enable remote stakeholder engagement and immersive policy dialogue. - Strengthening countries’ capacities to integrate game-based learning and simulation into programmes, policies, and technical assistance activities. Tasks and Responsibilities - Lead or participate in multidisciplinary teams applying game-based innovation methodologies to support FAO programmes, strategies, and country activities. - Design and develop or contribute to original serious games and policy simulations, including game mechanics, narrative structures, and pedagogical frameworks tailored to agrifood system challenges. - Adapt and facilitate games for virtual environments, utilizing digital platforms (e.g., Tabletopia, Miro, Tabletop Simulator, or custom web-based tools) to enable global participation. - Facilitate high-level policy simulation exercises and participatory workshops for diverse stakeholders, including government officials, private sector partners, and local communities. - Lead or contribute to "debriefing" sessions to bridge game experiences with real-world policy outcomes, ensuring that systemic insights are captured and translated into actionable results. - Develop or contribute to training materials and deliver capacity development activities on game-based facilitation for FAO staff and national partners. - Prepare analytical reports, methodological guidelines, and documentation on game-based interventions aligned with FAO standards. - Contribute to collaboration with government counterparts, research institutions, and development organizations to advance the use of gaming in policymaking. - Perform other related duties as required. Qualifications - For Consultants: Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in game design, instructional design, social sciences, public policy, international development, or another relevant field. Consultants with a bachelor's degree need two additional years of relevant professional experience. - For PSAs: University degree (or technical degree/certificate) from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in game design, instructional design, social sciences, public policy, international development, or another relevant field. - At least 1 year for category C and 5 years for category B of relevant experience in designing and facilitating serious games, policy simulations, or experiential learning processes (experience in both physical and virtual formats is required). - Full proficiency/Working knowledge of English (Level C). FAO Core Competencies - Results Focus - Teamwork - Communication - Building Effective Relationships - Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement Technical/Functional Skills - Extent and relevance of experience in game mechanics design and the application of gaming to complex policy or technical topics. - Demonstrated ability to design and facilitate participatory processes and manage group dynamics in both face-to-face and virtual settings. - Proficiency in using digital collaboration and virtual gaming tools (e.g., Miro, MURAL, virtual tabletop software, or interactive web platforms). - Experience in translating complex data or systems (such as agrifood systems or climate models) into intuitive and engaging game-based formats. - Experience working with government institutions, civil society, academia and/or international organizations. - Relevance of experience in different geographical and cultural contexts. Selection Criteria - Candidates will be assessed on their demonstrated experience in their role of designer and/or facilitator, specifically focusing on serious games that address policy challenges. - Proven capacity to design and deliver innovation-focused learning via virtual platforms will be a key consideration. - Candidates will also be requested to submit a portfolio of relevant previous work (e.g., game prototypes, rulebooks, session reports, gamebooks, or digital game links) demonstrating the quality and range of their gaming practice.

Role Description You will lead the engineering team behind GameFabric's Multiplayer Servers platform - the core product that game studios from indie to AAA rely on to orchestrate, scale, and operate their multiplayer game server fleets in production. This is a leadership role with a strong technical foundation. You own your team's delivery, drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and translate product priorities into a plan the team can execute against with confidence. GameFabric is a developer-first multiplayer server orchestration platform built on Agones, Kubernetes, and a hybrid bare-metal-plus-cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud and BYOC). The platform is API-first with a dedicated Terraform provider, and is used in production by game studios shipping titles at scale. You will report directly to the Head of B2B, who owns GameFabric end-to-end - including its technical direction - and reports to the CTO. This means a short path between business goals, product priorities, and engineering execution, and a leadership counterpart who is deeply technical and engages directly on architecture and trade-offs. You will lead a team of five experienced engineers (three backend, two frontend) and collaborate closely with peer teams across SRE, SteelShield, Customer Success, and Product. Your mission - Lead and develop a team of experienced engineers - running healthy manager fundamentals (1:1 cadence, feedback, growth conversations) and creating an environment of clear expectations and accountability. - Own delivery for your team end-to-end: convert priorities into an executable plan, manage scope and dependencies, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable. - Translate OKRs and business priorities into a clear technical plan for your team. - Drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and act as a credible technical counterpart in design discussions. - Ensure technical feasibility, dependencies, and scope are validated before sprint commitment. - Drive alignment with Product, SRE, SteelShield, and Customer Success - proactively identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies before they block delivery. - Establish and uphold engineering standards: definition of ready, release readiness, code review. - Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and across teams. Qualifications - Experience leading engineering teams in a complex technical environment. - Solid working knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes-based environments, container orchestration). - Track record of converting product input into structured engineering work. - Demonstrated ability to own delivery outcomes end-to-end. - Experience translating priorities and objectives into team plans and managing them through to delivery. - Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. Nice to have - Experience with Go (our primary backend language). - Background in multiplayer, real-time, or other latency-sensitive systems. - Experience working closely with SRE or platform teams. - Experience with API-first products and developer tooling. Benefits - Gaming at Heart: We provide free Nitrado Game Servers for gamers and a welcoming community for anyone who wants to feel at home. - Flexible working hours: Tailor your work hours to your personal needs for a better work-life balance. - Remote work: Our agile teams collaborate seamlessly from their preferred location. - Work from Abroad: Extend your workspace beyond national borders with our support for remote work from abroad. - Mental Health: We support your mental well-being with our annual Mental Health Day. - Physical Health: Our office infrastructure provides state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design. - Professional Development: Utilize training opportunities to develop and stay current with your skills. - Company Pension Plan: We support your financial security for the future with an attractive contribution. - Working Environment: You'll experience a respectful and friendly workplace culture. - Vacation and Paid Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of vacation and additional paid leave for special occasions. - International Collaboration: We successfully overcome time zones and language barriers. - Social Activities: Strengthen your commitment and team cohesion through team-building events. - Long-Term Stability: With over two decades of experience, we are a reliable employer. - Get together: Work hard, play hard - We come together twice a year for our company celebrations. - Modern Workspaces: Our office infrastructure offers state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design. - Corporate Culture and Values: You become part of a positive corporate culture that embraces values such as diversity and inclusion.