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We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…\nWe are looking for a contract Development Director to support a new project through to launch, keeping the project schedule and helps move the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring collaboration and communication both on the immediate team and with other partner teams within the studio. A Development Director manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff. Reporting to the Executive Producer, you will partner with team members to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget. This contract is expected to last at minimum 4 months, with possibility of extension.\nThroughout this contract, you can expect to:\nPartners with Senior Production team members to maintain planning and execution momentum for a live game during the contract term.\nProvides day-to-day guidance to project team members on process and priorities; flags improvement opportunities to the permanent team rather than driving studio-wide initiatives.\nCollaborates with project stakeholders to maintain schedules and resource plans against existing project goals.\nIdentifies dependencies and priorities between tasks in partnership with the project teams.\nMonitors project progress within assigned budgets and managing any changes that impact the overall project schedule, budget and resources along with proper communication.\nConfirms the team has access to needed training resources and best practices; but does not own long-term development planning\nSupports an environment where staff understand how their daily work contributes to the company’s goals in motion.\nSolves problems, balancing priorities, and finding creative solutions to achieve results.\nAssigns task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level.\nTracks and manages scope in alignment with capacity, identifying and mitigating risks for assigned scope as needed.\nPartners with team leads to manage and balance scope, ensuring timeline and quality targets are met.\nTo be successful in this role, your background includes:\nBachelor’s degree in related field or certification in project management, with a focus on Agile methodologies.\n7+ years of project management experience in entertainment and/or software development industry.\nMobile game development experience.\nWorking knowledge of JIRA and resource management tools (tracking, modeling, allocation).\nDeep understanding of games as a service business model.\nKnowledge of JIRA and other PM tools.\nEffective communication skills with the proven ability to work with stakeholders across all levels of organization.\nComfortable with ambiguity and constant change, yet able to set priorities and execute commitments.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3170,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Gaming","Mobile Games"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T06:26:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":83,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.827,"p_room":1,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-03T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":70000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kabam-development-director-contract","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kabam-development-director-contract.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-04T00:43:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":871,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4129,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-05T00:00:00Z"}}}