Manager - Ai Reconnaissance & Evaluation

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is **a place to do great work**, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also **a great place to work,** providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

**Responsibilities**:
We are seeking a Manager - AI Reconnaissance & Evaluation to lead the exploration and assessment of external AI tools, models, and platforms, ensuring the organization is leveraging the best and most relevant technologies in the market. This role focuses on identifying best-in-class AI innovations, conducting technical due diligence, and working with internal teams to determine fit-for-purpose solutions that are handed off to organization for adoption.

This role will serve as a critical intelligence and research node within Razer’s AI team, monitoring trends, conducting evaluations, and delivering actionable insights. You’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, data scientists and product managers to ensure that evaluated tools are not only technically sound but also secure, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

**Essential**Duties and R**esponsibilities**
- Proactively identify and research new and emerging AI technologies, products, APIs, models, platforms, SDKs and tools (both closed and open sourced) relevant to the organization’s needs.
- Maintain a live directory of evaluated solutions with technical summaries, pros/cons, and readiness assessments.
- Evaluate tools for core capabilities, reliability, scalability, usability, licensing, support, compliance and potential ROI.
- Assess tools for bias, explainability, performance, data requirements, and integration complexity.
- Work with internal stakeholders to map tools to specific use cases and problem areas, identifying clear fits or gaps
- Present findings to AI Data Engineering, AI Primitives, Gamer AI, Game Development AI, or Product teams for review and ownership of next steps.
- Translate complex AI capabilities into business-relevant summaries for decision-makers

**Pre-Requisites**:
**Qualification**s**
- 6+ years of experience in AI/ML technologies, product evaluation, game development or technical strategy
- 2+ years in a managerial or leadership role overseeing AI-driven product development
- Ability to work in fast paced, high pressure, agile environment.
- Ability to drive innovation and adoption of AI tools in a game studio, with a passion for AI-driven creativity in game development.
- Experience in analyzing or assessing AI models, APIs, SDKs, cloud AI platforms, game development tools
- Strong in programming languages such as Python, C++, C#.
- Experience in using game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine
- Deep understanding and knowledge of AI /ML (Gen AI, Computer Vision, LLMs), Game Development.
- Strong ability to critically evaluate trade-offs and determine the feasibility of an AI technology
- Strong communication and leadership abilities, with a track record of leading successful AI projects with game studios, while working cross functionally across multiple teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex business problems into actionable insights.

**Education & Experience**
- 4-year Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Game Development, AI, or related field from an accredited institution.

**Travel Requirements**
- Role based in Singapore office and may require up to 1 travel trip per year.

**Are you game?