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Lead full-cycle recruiting for senior and specialized studio roles (programming, art, design, production). Proactively source via Boolean, market mapping, and community channels; build pipelines, represent the studio at events, advise hiring leaders, support offer strategy, and run strategic talent acquisition projects.

Lead and build a unified UX, consumer, and market research organization. Define research vision, methodologies, and operating model; manage team growth, budgets, vendors, and multiple projects. Translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable recommendations and partner with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Publishing to embed research into decision-making.

Lead and organize the game systems team for Blight: Survival, building schedules and roadmaps, prioritizing and tracking tasks, conducting build reviews, coordinating with directors and other teams, improving processes with other producers, and managing people and their career development to deliver gameplay features to quality standards.

Manage planning and execution for Dead by Daylight: track tasks in JIRA and Confluence, identify dependencies and risks, remove blockers, align priorities, lead individual contributors, and report progress and risks to stakeholders.

Plan, conduct, and synthesize mixed-methods user research for games. Design tests, surveys, and longitudinal studies; create research protocols; present insights to stakeholders and collaborate with design and product teams to inform gameplay and product strategy.

Design, develop, and optimize scalable backend services for a global multiplayer game. Write technical specifications, troubleshoot performance and reliability issues, collaborate with programmers, and create/execute functional and load testing strategies for high-availability production systems.

Create high-quality gameplay VFX that realize the art director's vision. Collaborate with design, art, and tech teams to implement and optimize effects across platforms, iterate rapidly, and ensure performance and visual fidelity for Blight: Survival.

Design, implement, optimize, and maintain console-specific systems for Xbox and PS5. Investigate platform bugs, improve multiplayer stability and memory usage, participate in performance capture/pipelines, automate build/testing/version delivery workflows, and promote Unreal Engine internal best practices.

Lead strategy, planning, and execution of global live and digital events for Dead by Daylight. Own event roadmap, KPIs, budgets, vendors, logistics, and cross-functional coordination with brand, community, marketing, PR, and production. Source agencies and venues, manage stakeholders, analyze event performance, and deliver post-mortems and recommendations.

Prepare and consolidate monthly and year-end financial statements under IFRS; produce analyses and reconciliations explaining variances; support cross-functional and international finance teams; assist with multimedia tax credit claims; participate in strategic projects and provide actionable financial insights to support decision-making.