Director of Engineering

LAI Games is an arcade experience company that connects people with games. Our vision is to reinvent the arcade industry by creating an arcade experience ecosystem that consists of physical arcade games, consumer and location-based VR games and experiences, and other exciting arcade-based titles. Our team members have the opportunity to contribute across a broad range of unique and innovative projects that connect, engage, and delight players across physical and virtual worlds.

As Director of Engineering, you are responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of development at the game studio and mentoring and directing your technical leaders. You demonstrate exemplary leadership skills as you build, guide, and grow dynamic and passionate teams who love to engineer solutions to new problems, driven to create the world’s most innovative arcade games and services. Your team achieves its ambitions thanks to your technical experience, leadership, and ability to make informed decisions. You take pride and share a passion for the games and experiences your team develops together.

Key Responsibilities:

- From prototyping through to development, manufacturing, and go-to-market, leading engineering teams to launch commercially successful, innovative, and fun arcade game products.
- Collaborate with the Head of Product Management and Creative Director to develop and meet organizational goals while supplying expertise and guidance on technology and engineering capabilities.
- Interpret product vision and business objectives into development strategies, goals, and tasks, and provide a clear actionable plan to Engineering teams
- Develop and implement standards that drive technical excellence, including technical resources, documentation, testing, training, analytics, service standards, and system design
- Own and develop the technical strategy and roadmap, ensuring we meet our business goals including product delivery, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers and engineering manager, with a focus on attracting and nurturing top talent, actively identifying, recruiting, and developing successful managers, ensuring domain knowledge is shared, and building redundancy in key roles

Required Skills and Experience:

- Minimum of at least 10 years in senior product engineering or leadership position in hardware and/or software engineering.
- Multiple full cycles of product development under your belt shipping products from prototyping all the way through manufacturing.
- Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and building a technical team
- Technical expertise in product design, engineering, and manufacturing
- Demonstrated implementation of engineering standards in the previous role
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both oral and written, and a strong sense of tact in all interactions
- Leadership, strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What do we offer:

- Performance bonus scheme
- Annual personal technology fund of $1,000 to buy games, toys, and tech
- Annual Timezone Powercard so you can enjoy all the latest arcade games
- Training and education programs
- Private medical, dental, and life insurance coverage
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly self-directed personal development days
- Finish work early every Friday afternoon for social drinks and games
- Work in a dynamic, creative arcade/workspace
- Team events - being a part of the out-of-home entertainment industry, we like to have frequent team events and enjoy what the industry has to offer

LAI Games is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunities for professional growth.