Jobs at 2K

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.

Analyze player and business data for WWE 2K and PGA TOUR 2K, delivering actionable insights, reports, visualizations, business cases, and data-driven recommendations. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Commercial stakeholders, develop scalable self-service tools, identify measurement opportunities, improve data modeling, and support research and benchmarking across 2K titles. The role also mentors data users and helps define future data collection needs.

Leads community management and social marketing strategy for WWE 2K and PGA TOUR 2K. Oversees internal managers and agency partners, develops platform-specific campaigns, manages player feedback and social listening, supports live-service launches and updates, and reports insights to marketing, studio, and executive stakeholders. Drives community growth through creators, tournaments, councils, and fan programs while partnering cross-functionally to improve player experiences and brand relevance.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend microservices and APIs for gaming services. Own service domains, improve reliability and performance, optimize infrastructure costs, reduce technical debt, modernize legacy systems, and collaborate with product, design, and game teams. The role requires expertise in Go or Java, distributed systems, databases, CI/CD, observability, authentication, secure coding, and cloud or container platforms.

Drive complex multiplayer game features from concept through implementation, focusing on economy design, reward systems, player progression, and systemic content. Collaborate cross-functionally, implement and iterate features in Unreal Engine, analyze economy models, respond to feedback, provide design leadership, mentor peers, and align stakeholders around feature goals and game quality.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Automate CI/CD workflows, manage cloud infrastructure, improve reliability and performance, support observability, troubleshoot Windows and Linux build environments, integrate Perforce, document standardized configurations, and collaborate with development, platform, and DevOps teams across multiple studios.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Responsibilities include cloud migration, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability, troubleshooting, source control integration, documentation, and technical support. The role partners with developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and studios to improve build reliability, scalability, uptime, and performance across Windows and Linux environments.

Develop and implement technical UI systems, materials, shaders, and workflows for video games. Collaborate with UI artists, programmers, designers, and producers to develop engine features, optimize memory and performance, prototype art pipelines, and solve technical UI and UX challenges. The role requires expert Unreal Engine 5 knowledge, ownership of performant shippable content, and strong collaboration across disciplines.

Leads 2K’s global data engineering strategy, telemetry architecture, cloud infrastructure efficiency, ML Ops enablement, and proactive modeling capabilities. Oversees high-scale distributed data systems, streaming telemetry, feature pipelines, FinOps, and operational excellence. Builds partnerships across studios and executive teams while hiring, mentoring, and developing a world-class engineering organization.

Leads and scales 2K’s technical program management practice supporting multiple game studios. Owns program delivery strategy, governance, executive reporting, staffing, roadmap execution, risk escalation, prioritization, and cross-functional alignment. Builds and develops high-performing Technical Program Manager teams while establishing processes and tools that improve delivery visibility and outcomes across shared services and platform initiatives.

Develop and optimize shaders, master materials, and technical art pipelines in Unreal Engine. Establish shader standards, build validation tools, profile performance, resolve content pipeline issues, and create reusable documentation and best practices. Collaborate across art, engineering, design, animation, and lighting teams to solve production challenges and deliver visually rich experiences across console, PC, and mobile platforms.

Designs, prototypes, ships, and tunes features for free-to-play mobile games. Owns gameplay experiences end to end, writes detailed specifications, prototypes directly in Unity, integrates live-service systems, develops agentic design workflows, analyzes telemetry, and collaborates with engineering and art teams to balance gameplay, difficulty, and monetization.

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.

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.