Jobs at 2K

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Translate UX designs into performant implementations, establish UI architecture and workflow standards, collaborate with multidisciplinary game development teams, evaluate new tools, and mentor technical designers. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps, hiring, onboarding, and building the studio’s technical UI function.

Leads and mentors game development teams while implementing sophisticated features for AAA titles. Responsibilities include game performance analysis and optimization, debugging and profiling, adapting to coding standards, estimating schedules, removing development bottlenecks, and automating pipelines. The role collaborates closely with producers and partner studios, supports stable deliveries, reviews code, and provides technical direction across console and PC game development projects.

Creates and implements high-quality user interface assets for the NBA 2K franchise, integrating them into the game engine with designers and engineers. Develops motion graphics and visual effects, participates in design reviews and playtests, incorporates feedback, and aligns work with the game’s art direction. Requires UI design experience, 2D and 3D graphics software proficiency, game engine implementation experience, collaboration skills, and a professional portfolio.

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for 2K Technology’s cloud infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and developer tools. Align stakeholders, partners, engineering, SRE, and technical operations teams around scalable, reliable, cost-effective capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements definition, customer research, competitive analysis, KPI development, strategic planning, and delivery of technical products for global studios and publishing teams.

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for 2K Technology’s cloud and physical infrastructure and developer tools. Align infrastructure, engineering, SRE, technical operations, partners, and studio stakeholders around scalable, reliable, cost-effective technology capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements definition, customer interviews, competitive analysis, strategic planning, KPI development, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of high-quality technical products.

The Manager will lead marketing initiatives for NBA 2K, focusing on player engagement and retention through strategic campaigns and content creation.

Lead a small engineering team while coding hands-on to extend Unreal Engine’s Gauntlet automation framework. Build test harnesses, input simulation, AI-driven test agents, telemetry, reporting, and scalable test infrastructure. Partner with studios and technical leaders, communicate risks and tradeoffs, manage the platform roadmap, and reduce technical debt. The role requires deep Unreal Engine and C++ expertise, engine-level testing experience, team leadership, and software telemetry or instrumentation experience.

Lead the DevOps team for WWE 2K by defining technical strategy and building reliable development and production infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, cloud and containerized environments, developer tooling, observability, documentation, and operational standards. The role also requires cross-team collaboration, technical leadership, and improving workflows across a distributed game development studio.

Own the product strategy and production delivery of shared AI services and infrastructure across 2K. Drive opportunity intake, prioritization, build-versus-buy decisions, roadmap communication, governance, adoption, reliability, cost, latency, and output quality. Partner with engineering, data science, security, trust and safety, and senior leadership to deliver scalable AI capabilities with auditable compliance and measurable business value.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, developer workflows, security practices, and infrastructure cost efficiency. Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues, document runbooks, manage incidents, and participate in periodic on-call rotations.

Own the technical architecture for backend systems, lead the design of scalable distributed platforms and microservices, establish reliability and security standards, mentor engineers, and proactively mitigate technical risks. The role requires extensive experience architecting large-scale systems with Go, Java, or comparable languages; expertise in distributed systems, API design, cloud platforms, relational databases, and technical decision-making.

Designs and scales 2K’s core data platform across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS data lakes, Kafka/Kinesis, and distributed Spark systems. Builds self-service data capabilities, optimizes performance and costs, implements security and RBAC, enables interoperability through standards such as Apache Iceberg, and provides technical leadership for high-volume game telemetry and analytics infrastructure.

Develops high-quality character concepts from exploration through production-ready designs, including sketches, turnarounds, and documentation. Translates ambiguous creative briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Defines character design standards, collaborates with art and cross-disciplinary teams to support 3D production, mentors artists, improves workflows, and independently manages complex assignments.

Create production-ready characters, creatures, and weapons from high-resolution sculpts through modeling, topology, UVs, texturing, materials, and Unreal Engine integration. Own complex assignments, establish artistic and technical standards, solve visual and production challenges, collaborate across disciplines, mentor artists, manage priorities, and oversee external vendors. The role requires expert real-time character art skills, strong artistic judgment, technical problem-solving, and experience shipping multiple game titles.

Leads technical implementation of gameplay systems for a sports video game. Prototypes and scripts mechanics using visual scripting, translates designs into scalable in-game behaviors, improves content workflows and tools, and collaborates with engineering and cross-disciplinary teams. Mentors technical designers, serves as a craft lead, troubleshoots implementations, documents technical solutions, and supports feature planning, optimization, and delivery from prototype through release.

Design and maintain game UI systems, player flows, wireframes, interaction patterns, visual interfaces, iconography, motion graphics, and mockups. Translate gameplay systems into intuitive experiences across platforms and input methods. Collaborate with design, art, and engineering teams to deliver shippable features while maintaining visual and UX consistency. Experience with Figma, Adobe tools, and game engine UI implementation is valued.

Develops and implements gameplay systems for a sports video game, translating design concepts into scripted mechanics, systemic features, and robust in-game behaviors. Builds prototypes, improves content workflows and toolsets, troubleshoots implementations, and supports other designers with technical guidance. Collaborates with engineering, animation, audio, UI/UX, and production teams to deliver performant, scalable, and shippable gameplay experiences.

Provides temporary executive assistance to the Chief Operating Officer during an approximately eight-month maternity leave coverage period. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, domestic and international travel coordination, expense reporting in Concur, meeting and leadership event support, presentation preparation, stakeholder communications, project tracking, research, and confidential strategic support. The role requires independent execution, strong organization, discretion, adaptability, and experience supporting C-level executives.

Coordinates Prague studio office operations, facilities maintenance, vendors, supplies, visitors, events, catering, office moves, health and safety, sustainability, and waste management. Supports Finance, HR, recruitment, onboarding, and employee relocations. Requires strong organization, hands-on building maintenance knowledge, Czech/Slovak and English fluency, Microsoft Office skills, and flexibility for occasional weekend or emergency callout work.

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to three or more senior leaders. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel management, expense reporting, meeting coordination, presentation preparation, stakeholder communication, project tracking, event planning, onboarding logistics, and process improvement. The role requires strong organization, discretion, communication, judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities independently in a fast-paced environment.