Jobs at Blackbird Interactive

The Lead Producer will oversee project delivery across multiple platforms, manage team dynamics, schedules, and stakeholder relationships while ensuring quality and adherence to project goals.

Bridge art and engineering to integrate and optimize real-time assets in Unreal Engine 5. Build tools and workflows, support artists across animation, modeling, texturing, FX, and destruction, identify and resolve visual or performance issues, and document pipelines. Own technical challenges and improve artist productivity.

Create and implement character clothing, armor, and related assets for a AAA sci‑fi game: model, sculpt, retopo, UV, bake, texture, perform basic skinning, export and integrate assets into engine while collaborating with art leadership and cross-disciplinary teams.

Lead accounting operations, compliance, and systems governance to ensure accurate GL, AP/AR, payroll, tax filings, cash management, revenue recognition, and audit support. Build scalable finance processes, manage external advisors, and standardize templates and controls across projects and partnerships.

Prototype, implement, and iterate gameplay content (objects, abilities, scripted sequences, tutorials). Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to integrate systems, estimate effort, and fix bugs while meeting technical and performance constraints.

Lead cross-discipline feature teams through full production cycle, manage roadmaps, capacity, risks and stakeholder relationships, mentor producers, and improve production processes to deliver features on time and post-launch.

Develop and optimize platform-facing systems in proprietary game engines across PC and consoles. Implement and tune memory allocators, I/O/streaming pipelines, CPU/job systems, and platform SDK abstractions. Profile and resolve performance bottlenecks, collaborate with gameplay/rendering/audio/content teams, and contribute tooling and regression detection to ensure stable, performant builds and developer workflows.

Work on enhancing rendering features and performance for a UE5 project, collaborating with artists and tech leads. Responsibilities include optimizing real-time rendering systems and addressing visual artifacts and stability issues.

Adapt and refine a complex PC-first game's UI/UX for new platforms. Evaluate interfaces, create flows, wireframes, mockups, and accessibility-focused solutions. Collaborate with design, art, engineering, and production; run playtests and iterate on player feedback.

Work with the Art Director and creative team to design 2D and 3D concept art (characters, tools, vehicles, environments), create in-game/key art and storyboards, rapidly iterate within technical constraints, and maintain immersive game-universe visual research.

Design, prototype, implement, and tune gameplay features and content for a systems-driven Unreal Engine 5 first-person sci-fi action game. Produce documentation, resolve implementation issues and bugs, test new features, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to meet design objectives and feedback.