Jobs at 2K

Lead publishing production for AAA and live-service sports games from development through post-launch. Manage publishing pipelines, backend technology integrations, milestone reviews, playtests, game submissions, build launches, budgets, and cross-functional alignment among development, QA, release management, marketing, commercial, and licensing teams. Provide production support, resolve blockers, communicate requirements, and prepare executive-facing materials.

Drive community strategy and engagement for the BioShock franchise across Steam, Discord, Reddit, and other platforms. Build player relationships, manage feedback loops, analyze sentiment and community data, produce reports, coordinate moderation and messaging, and partner with marketing, development, communications, creators, agencies, legal, and studio teams to grow player communities and inform game and go-to-market strategies.

Coordinates video game localization for Traditional Chinese across developers, publishers, production, QA, and external vendors. Manages asset flows, localization tools, internationalization risks, platform certification, process documentation, feature testing, linguistic issues, and culturally sensitive content. Leads internal projects that improve localization consistency, automation, and scalability while ensuring deliverables meet regional and platform standards.

Coordinates Simplified Chinese game localization across production, development, vendors, and linguistic QA. Manages asset tracking, localization tools and workflows, internationalization efforts, certification readiness, process documentation, feature testing, and culturally sensitive language reviews. Leads internal projects that improve localization consistency, automation, and scalability. Requires native or near-native Simplified Chinese, strong English communication, and 4–6+ years of relevant gaming or media experience.

Develop and maintain backend architecture and services powering NBA 2K online features. Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, large-scale computing solutions, efficient databases, and low-latency services supporting millions of concurrent players. Optimize queries and transactions, implement multithreaded systems, and collaborate with engineering and design teams to deliver stable online gameplay experiences.

Develop backend architecture and services powering NBA 2K online features. Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems; build high-performance services handling millions of concurrent players; optimize databases and real-time transactions; and collaborate with engineering and design teams to deliver stable, low-latency online gameplay experiences.

Develop and implement narrative content for a AAA video game, including story arcs, dialogue, characters, scripts, character bios, and voice-casting materials. Collaborate with design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams; participate in play sessions; provide narrative feedback; and improve writing workflows. The role requires driving content from concept to completion while responding effectively to critique, ambiguity, and changing priorities.

Develop narrative content for a AAA game, including story arcs, dialogue, characters, scripts, character bios, and voice-casting materials. Implement writing in Unreal Engine and proprietary tools, participate in play sessions, provide narrative feedback, and improve writing workflows. Collaborate with design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams while maintaining thematic consistency, responding to critique, and driving solutions through ambiguity.

Develop and optimize advanced animation systems and runtime character performance in Unreal Engine 5. Responsibilities include authoring Animation Blueprints, procedural animation systems, Motion Matching, locomotion, cloth, IK, and secondary dynamics. The role diagnoses issues across Maya and the game engine, improves pipelines and performance, collaborates across disciplines, documents workflows, and mentors team members supporting a AAA game production.

Develop and optimize advanced animation systems and runtime character performance in Unreal Engine 5. Create Animation Blueprints, procedural animation systems, locomotion and Motion Matching solutions, cloth, IK, and secondary dynamics. Diagnose issues across Maya and Unreal Engine, improve animation pipelines and editor tools, document workflows, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor team members. The role supports high-quality, memory-efficient animation for a AAA BioShock game.

Lead global product marketing strategy for a new video game IP from development through launch and live service. Drive positioning, campaigns, player insight, acquisition, engagement, retention, community, and lifecycle marketing. Partner with development, product, creative, PR, and publishing teams; guide player-facing assets; represent Global Marketing; and lead, mentor, and develop the Product Marketing team.

Leads the strategy and execution of external game development partnerships for a AAA project. Builds outsourcing pipelines, workflows, trackers, briefs, review processes, and onboarding systems; sources and negotiates with vendors; manages budgets, forecasts, schedules, contracts, milestones, quality, risk, and reporting. Partners with production, art, discipline leads, legal, procurement, IT, and leadership while developing the external development function and future team.

Serves as the principal architect for an AI-native QA software development lifecycle. Designs agentic QA platforms, technical roadmaps, governance, evaluation benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop frameworks. Solves complex architectural, memory, and distributed-systems challenges using multiple programming languages. Leads Playwright automation, Datadog observability, SDK validation across Unreal Engine and Unity, code reviews, architecture reviews, technical collaboration, and mentorship.

Designs and maintains automated data quality checks for game telemetry, player events, and backend systems. Monitors pipelines, detects anomalies and schema changes, defines data quality standards and SLAs, investigates root causes, and builds dashboards and alerting. Collaborates with engineering, analytics, and product teams on event instrumentation, data lineage, privacy compliance, and reliable datasets for strategic decisions.

Create and implement high-quality, authentic sports gameplay animations for a new AAA franchise. Collaborate with animation, AI, engineering, design, and production teams from ideation through engine implementation. Manage motion-capture shot lists and references, support animation-based features, influence technical implementation, and champion animation quality, authenticity, and player experience.

Provides front-line HR business partner support for the Sports business unit, advising employees and managers on policies, performance management, employee relations, compliance, and HR processes. Partners with leaders on HR initiatives, workforce metrics, training, engagement, and policy harmonization. Administers HR programs, supports documentation and issue escalation, facilitates listening groups and workshops, and ensures legally compliant HR practices across global and local operations.

Leads end-to-end data science systems, experimental frameworks, statistical and predictive modeling, and AI solutions supporting marketing, product growth, player engagement, and commercial strategy. Partners with cross-functional and executive stakeholders to define business problems, develop reliable models, communicate insights, and influence strategic decisions. Requires advanced R or Python, SQL, data warehouse experience, methodological expertise, and strong communication skills.

Tests Arabic-localized video game builds for linguistic, functional, visual, and cultural accuracy. Logs and reproduces localization bugs, proposes text corrections, validates terminology and style guides, identifies systemic localization risks, follows test plans, reviews player reports, and participates in bug triage and milestone reviews. The role also supports glossary validation and serves as an Arabic language resource for global localization teams.

Lead the design, operation, and reliability of hybrid AWS and VMware infrastructure supporting game services and millions of players. Manage cloud platforms, databases, networking, load balancers, observability, automation, security, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery. Establish SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, and post-mortem improvements while partnering with engineering and game studios.

Supports global brand strategy and integrated marketing campaigns for Gearbox gaming franchises. Coordinates go-to-market planning, creative development, regional adaptation, agencies, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional teams. Uses audience research, player telemetry, KPIs, and campaign performance analysis to optimize marketing programs and drive measurable results.