Technical Director, Product Engineering

2K • Austin, TX

12h

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Technical Director to lead the integration team of 2K game and publishing tech into our upcoming AAA titles. In this role, you will lead – by example – a cross-functional team of engineers who will ensure our studios can leverage the full strength of 2K’s custom tech and world-class publishing systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in multiplatform AAA game development with multiple shipped titles.
• Full stack game development experience – from gameplay, UI, networking, and backend services.
• Expert in integrating, debugging, and optimizing game networking/online, multiplayer, monetization/commerce and identity/accounts subsystems.
• Familiar with development of low-level systems like streaming, generic serialization, and more.
• Deep experience with Unreal, Unity, C++ engines and common platform SDKs.
• Strong coding skills in C++, familiarity with Go, C#
• Collaborative and dependable with an eye for problem solving.
• Thrives under pressure. Oriented toward results and unflappable in the face of challenges.
• Comfortable being the technical decision-maker. You can hold a strong opinion, defend it with evidence, and change it when the evidence shifts.
• Track record of working effectively across teams without formal authority.

Nice To Haves

• Experience shipping developer tools or platforms in the games industry.
• Prior experience shipping software on console platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch), including familiarity with platform certification requirements and console-specific SDK constraints.
• Background in online services, networking, telemetry, or live operations.
• Prior work building AI-powered developer tooling
• Open-source contributions, especially to widely-used SDKs or developer libraries.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and management for the Partner Success organization's TAM and Solution Engineering teams, setting standards for how technical delivery is scoped, staffed, and executed.
• Own technical strategy for partner engagements — from architecture evaluation and SDK implementation through configuration and ongoing support — ensuring consistency and quality across the partner base.
• Grow and mentor TAMs and Solution Engineers, building technical depth and partner-facing skill across the team.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and vertical leads to make sure the Partner Success technical model reflects real integration complexity, not just process.
• Serve as an escalation point and technical decision-maker for complex or high-stakes partner integrations.
• Build and champion AI-powered workflows and tooling to make the team faster and partner integrations more frictionless.
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities in how technical delivery is organized, and drive changes to the operating model when needed.
• Lead through influence — build trust across Product, Engineering, and partner-facing teams, and bring people along on technical decisions rather than mandating them.

Benefits

• 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.
• 2K is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed