The Senior Manager of the Solution Architect, Games team leads a team that is responsible for helping game developers successfully integrate Discord's suite of developer tools (including the Social SDK) into their games and optimize their overall Discord Community presence. This role combines people leadership with hands-on technical expertise: you'll manage and develop a team of specialists while personally serving as the technical expert on our most complex integrations.

This will start as a player-coach role ideal for someone with deep experience in game development, particularly multiplayer, who wants to build and lead a high-performing team while staying close to the technical work. This role is expected to evolve into a management-only role as the team scales.

Who Is A Good Fit

You may be a good fit for this opportunity if you come from roles within the Gaming ecosystem like:

• Solutions Engineering Manager 
• Solutions Architect Manager 
• Partner Engineering Manager
• Technical Partnerships / Account Manager
• Developer Relations Manager 
• Developer Experience Manager 

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Integration (Social SDK, new emerging products) and Community (Official Server optimization) Specialists, setting clear goals aligned with department objectives 
• Drive continuous improvement across the team through regular retrospectives and feedback
• Identify growth opportunities and create developmental assignments that expand team capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to ensure team focus aligns with broader company initiatives

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the subject matter expert for technically complex integrations
• Establish systems, tools and automations that evolve the managed white glove service of today into at-scale, repeatable processes. 
• Lead technical discovery sessions and architectural reviews for customer implementations
• Provide expert guidance on best practices for integrating Discord's Social SDK and enabling commerce in diverse game genres, engines and platforms
• Translate complex business requirements into technical implementation plans
• Contribute to product roadmap decisions based on customer feedback and technical insights

Customer Partnership

• Own solution architecture for Discord's most technically challenging AAA managed accounts
• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior technical stakeholders at partner studios
• Develop strategies for your team’s portfolio of developers to maximize the value of Discord's developer and Community tools
• Prepare and deliver technical updates to stakeholders on integration progress and milestones

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to drive successful customer outcomes
• Contribute to sales enablement through technical documentation, reference architectures, and case studies
• Inform product and cross-functional leadership on operational aspects of customer integrations

Requirements

• Experience managing a team, with a demonstrated ability to develop talent and drive team performance
• Technical background in game development
• Direct experience working within a game studio or game ecosystem provider
• Ability to read, understand, and discuss code across multiple languages
• Familiarity with game engines (such as Unity, Unreal, proprietary), platforms, and development toolchains
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences
• Track record of building relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Proficiency in Korean or other languages (Mandarin, Japanese)
• Experience as a Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager, or similar customer-facing technical role
• Experience with gamedev focused developer platforms or SDK integrations
• Background in developer relations or developer experience
• Familiarity with Discord Communities

What Success Looks Like

In this role, you'll be successful when your team is delivering high-quality integration support, your developers are seeing measurable improvements in player outcomes through Discord's tools, and you're recognized internally as the go-to expert for our most demanding customer engagements.

Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available. 

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000 to $306,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

People come to Discord before, during, and after gaming, and we want to make that experience even better. The Developer Success team is building the tools for game developers to make that happen by harnessing the power of Discord from right within their games. We believe that gaming is better when playing with your friends and aim to foster better and deeper relationships through that. This is also reflected in how we work! Our engineering culture believes that great teams are built through collaboration and trust. Come and join us!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Delivering high-quality, high-impact projects that unlock new capabilities for game developers. This could include anything from our web APIs, realtime infrastructure, C++ SDKs, developer portal, or even in the UI. Whatever it takes to get the important thing done.
• Collaborating with the other engineers on your team to write, review, and ship elegant and scalable code. You take pride in the fact that your code will be used by millions and millions of people!
• Leading projects through the whole life cycle: including gathering requirements, breaking down milestones into smaller pieces, building, then shipping the thing.
• Listening and working with our game developer partners to better understand their needs in order to improve our tools. This could mean hopping into partner meetings as a technical expert or working with our DevReal team to answer their questions.
• Working with product managers, designers, and partner managers to cut through ambiguity and find the way forward.
• Using your attention to detail to continually raise the quality bar of the software we write.

What you should have:

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer.
• Experience with some parts of our tech stack: Python, Typescript/React, or Elixir. You are comfortable switching across stacks or learning new ones.
• You have a sense for product and design. We don’t operate in silos, and you’ll be collaborating closely with cross-functional peers. You should be able to express opinions and collaborate to make something great.
• You take a holistic approach to problem solving. You believe in solving a problem from first principles rather than simply shipping a solution. You learn from your mistakes and work through obstacles with the rest of the team.
• You actively leverage AI coding tools to accelerate your productivity.

Bonus Points

• Experience with game development. Bonus bonus points if you’re familiar with Unity and/or Unreal.
• Experience with mobile development.
• Experience leveraging a cloud platform (GCP, Amazon, or Azure) to serve as the backend infrastructure for a product.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

ON BOARD EXPERIENTIAL MARKETING

On Board Experiential (OBE) is an award-winning, full-service, experience-led agency that creates meaningful brand experiences worldwide. We work out of our homes and physical offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and NYC, or wherever our adventures take us! Our clients include Nike, Meta, JPMorgan Chase, The Infatuation, Stripe, and OpenAI, to name a few. We know, "Cool, cool, but what’s it like to work at OBE?" We thought you'd never ask. Event Marketer has recognized OBE as one of the best places to work in events and well, we couldn't agree more.

The most important part of our business is our people. They are hardworking, brave and make magic happen on the regular. But under each majestic exterior is a human deserving of a healthy work-life balance. That’s why we believe in recovery days, happy hours, friendly but competitive fitness challenges and company offsites.

We conduct open meetings to facilitate discussions that heal, inspire, and bring us closer. We encourage each other to bring our whole selves to work. We want to hear about your lived experiences and unique perspectives. We don't just want you to be unapologetically you: it's part of the job description.

We are considering candidates for any of our office locations: New York, San Francisco (Mill Valley), and Los Angeles.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

The Vice President, Design is a senior creative leader responsible for elevating OBE’s design excellence, shepherding all design disciplines, and overseeing the development and delivery of world-class experiential, spatial, and integrated design work. Reporting directly to the Chief Creative Officer, the Vice President, Design leads a multidisciplinary team of designers, including 3D/environmental specialists, graphic and UX/UI designers, and visual storytellers to craft immersive, culturally relevant brand experiences that compete at the level of top design agencies. 

As both a visionary and operational leader, this individual ensures the design function is both innovative and strategically grounded. They bring deep expertise in environmental + 3D design, creative technology and interactive experience integration, and design execution (including fabrication, technical requirements, compliance best practices, etc.). They also have a proven ability to lead large, high-performing creative teams, and an extensive network of freelance and specialist talent nationwide. The Vice President, Design strengthens our design brand, inspires creative ambition across the organization, and ensures every project reflects extraordinary craft, clarity, and cultural insight. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Design Leadership & Strategic Direction 

• Lead the overall vision, quality, and execution of OBE’s Design function, overseeing outputs across integrated design disciplines (spatial/environmental, graphic, interactive, digital, etc.) 

• Ignite imagination and push design limits by delivering and inspiring best-in-class experiential design. 

• Champion innovation, pushing design boundaries while maintaining brand integrity and strategic alignment. 

• Set and implement short- and long-term design goals aligned with agency growth and CCO’s creative strategy. 

• Proactively track and apply design trends + thinking to maintain a cutting-edge, future-focused creative offering for OBE. 

• Oversee conceptual and visual direction for high-profile projects, ensuring all design work meets the highest standards of craft and creativity. 

• Lead select client projects, gaining client trust, selling in industry-defining design, and translating client objectives into strategic design solutions that elevate brand impact. 

Team Management & Department Leadership 

• Lead, mentor, and/or manage a design team of 10+ designers—fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, curiosity, and growth. 

• Articulate clear career paths and provide development plans plus ongoing feedback to strengthen team capability, growth, and morale. 

• Work with CCO and Creative Leadership to drive and develop department programming, including content for Creative Department Meetings and/or Design-specific trainings. 

• Contribute to hiring strategy and talent acquisition, helping attract top-tier design talent to OBE. 

• Expand, maintain, and grow OBE’s bench of freelance and specialty designers; work with Creative Operations to activate this network quickly as needed for project demands. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Partner closely with Creative Directors, Strategy, Production, Technology and Account teams to ensure design thinking is fully integrated across all phases of work. Partner closely with Creative Directors, Strategy, Production, Technology and Account teams to ensure design thinking is fully integrated across all phases of client work. 

• Guide internal and client teams through all stages of design—from initials sketches and mood boards to final renderings and presentations to execution drawings and site maps. 

• Participate in leadership discussions, offering perspective on design innovation, creative process, and organizational growth. 

• Collaborate with Production to realize ambitious design concepts, maintaining design integrity from concept through execution. 

• Develop, direct and inspire compelling design concepts to win new business, including provocative pitch materials, resonant visuals, and clear executive presentations. 

Design Execution & Experiential Innovation 

• Ensure design concepts integrate cultural insight, user experience, visual storytelling, and technical feasibility. 

• Leverage deep understanding of brand experiences, environmental branding, creative technology and design execution to vet and integrate top vendors in partnership with Production.  

• Leverage expertise to balance creative ambition with practical feasibility, fostering an agile mindset across teams to deliver bold design on time and on budget. 

• Elevate and evolve design execution through quality assurance and control (materials evaluation, fabrication process audit, etc.), inspiring executional excellence and ensuring accuracy, craftsmanship, and on-brief delivery. 

• Oversee and/or lead on-site installation to maintain design excellence through delivery. 

Operational Excellence 

• Develop and refine design workflows, templates, tools, and standards to improve quality, efficiency, and cross-team collaboration. 

• Work with 2D design team lead to oversee software, hardware, and platform needs for the design team; advocate for new tools that strengthen creative output. 

• Review project budgets, timelines, hours assessments and SOWs to ensure design scopes appropriately outlined and budgeted, setting teams up for operational excellence and profitability. 

• As part of Creative Leadership, oversee team resourcing, staffing, and utilization, ensuring optimal balance of talent, workload, and quality. 

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Education/Experience 

• 10+ years of design experience in experiential, environmental, architectural, or multidisciplinary creative roles. 

• 4+ years leading design / creative teams or running a design function within an agency, event production company or creative studio. 

• Proven experience managing a team designers / creatives or successfully running an agency/design studio. 

• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional experiential design work, architectural / 3D design expertise, integrated strategic thinking, compelling spatial storytelling and environmental branding, and thoughtful technology integration. 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture, Design, Environmental Design, Creative Direction, or related field (or equivalent professional experience). 

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Mastery across key design disciplines including spatial/environmental design, 3D and architectural conception, experiential design, and visual storytelling. 

• Expertise in 3D design with advanced proficiency in modeling and rendering software (e.g. SketchUp, Rhino, Vray, Unreal Engine) and Adobe Creative Suite. 

• Passion for and familiarity with interactive experience design and implementation. 

• Strong understanding of fabrication processes, materials, production workflows, and feasibility considerations for brand experiences. 

• Ability to synthesize complex client needs into strategic, actionable design directions. 

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to persuade, inspire, and guide both internal teams and clients. 

• Skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, creatively demanding environment. 

• Deep network of freelance creative resources, including 2D & 3D designers, production artists, CAD designers, creative technologists, content creators, lighting designers, art directors and stylists. 

Other Qualities and Skills 

• Inspirational leader who motivates teams through clarity, empathy, and creative ambition. 

• High energy, adaptable, and thrives in evolving, entrepreneurial environments. 

• Strong problem-solving capabilities with calm, grounded decision-making. 

• Naturally curious, culturally aware, and committed to pushing design excellence. 

• Hybrid in-office requirement: Must be based in and work from NYC, LA, or SF. 
• Willingness to travel and work flexible hours as needed 

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We are building a production-grade web application for 3D Gaussian Splat scene generation, editing, and publishing, and we’re looking for a Pipeline Engineer to help integrate cutting-edge research features and make them reliable, debuggable, and delightful to use.

This is a high-ownership, fullstack-but-backend-heavy role that sits between R&D and frontend. You will work end-to-end across graphics/ML algorithms, backend services, and frontend UI — turning proof-of-concepts into shipped features that users can rely on. The ideal candidate enjoys making complex, messy systems work smoothly in production and improving them continuously based on both internal testing and external user feedback.

Key Responsibilities

• Bridge research and product by working closely with both graphics/computer vision researchers and frontend engineers to ship usable features.
• Turn standalone Python scripts into clean, production-ready systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and tooling that expose complex 3D workflows in a reliable and scalable way.
• Assist in integrations across the 3D ecosystem, including asset import/export and format conversion with common DCC tools.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• You have a strong pipeline mindset, with experience turning scripts into production systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• You enjoy building tools and infrastructure that enable others, and you take pride in making complex systems understandable and usable.
• You have fluency in the 3D ecosystem, including familiarity with 3D algorithms, DCC tools and common 3D file formats, sufficient to design integrations and debug workflow issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python, including packaging, typing, tooling, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Strong literacy in core 3D graphics and computer vision concepts, such as transforms, cameras, coordinate systems, rendering, and visual artifact debugging.
• Demonstrated experience taking prototypes to production, including refactoring, testing, CI/CD, versioned artifacts, and reproducibility.
• Solid backend fundamentals, including HTTP APIs, FastAPI (or similar frameworks), async/concurrency basics, cloud deployment, and service reliability.

Strongly Preferred / Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, or Gaussian splat rendering pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with DCC tools such as Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unreal, or Unity.
• Familiarity with the GPU stack (CUDA, PyTorch), batch/queue systems, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Frontend adjacency, with comfort collaborating on React-based parameter plumbing and UX for technical controls.
• Experience with production pipelines at VFX, animation, or gaming studios.
• A production support mindset, including willingness to iterate on documentation, tutorials, and error messages to improve usability and reduce misuse.

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Packaging ML and 3D Python pipelines into GPU-backed FastAPI services with request validation, reproducible outputs, and well-defined request/response schemas.
• Designing parameter schemas and defaults that map cleanly from frontend controls to backend APIs and internal pipeline configurations.
• Integrating import/export workflows with popular DCC tools (e.g., Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unity, Unreal, USD), identifying workflow friction, and producing lightweight documentation, tutorials, and example code/scripts to help users succeed.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world - then World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following:

About World Labs:

We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full potential through spatial intelligence by transforming seeing into doing, perceiving into reasoning, and imagining into creating. 

We believe spatial intelligence will unlock new forms of storytelling, creativity, design, simulation, and immersive experiences across both virtual and physical worlds.

We bring together a world-class team, united by a shared curiosity, passion, and deep backgrounds in technology — from AI research to systems engineering to product design — creating a tight feedback loop between our cutting-edge research and products that empower our users.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a 3D Data Pipeline Engineer to design, build, and operate the core systems that enable high-quality 3D data processing, synthetic data generation, and rendering across our products. This is a hands-on role for someone who is passionate about large-scale 3D data, system performance, and delivering reliable data pipelines to power our product features.

You’ll work closely with product engineers, 3D artists, and research scientists to design efficient, robust, and scalable data pipeline capabilities—while keeping data integrity and performance high in a fast-moving startup environment.

What You Will Do:

• Design, build, and operate automated pipelines for 3D data ingestion, cleaning, processing, validation, and delivery that sit on the critical path for model training.
• Own foundational capabilities for synthetic data generation, including developing tools, workflows, and quality metrics to produce high-fidelity training data at scale.
• Develop and optimize high-performance rendering systems and services for real-time visualization and asset generation.
• Architect and operate distributed data systems for handling massive volumes of 3D models, textures, and associated metadata, ensuring data consistency and robust failure recovery.
• Own data quality and production readiness end-to-end: defining data schemas, implementing quality checks, capacity planning, observability, and continuous improvement for the 3D pipeline.
• Improve developer and researcher velocity by building shared abstractions, tooling, and guardrails that reduce the operational and cognitive load of working with 3D assets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate the 3D data pipeline with other core product platforms and services.
• Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the data engineering bar across the product org with a focus on 3D data.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines, especially with a focus on 3D, graphics, or simulation data, with deep experience designing scalable, distributed services in production.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, and a solid foundation in data engineering principles and distributed systems architecture.
• Hands-on experience with 3D data processing libraries, game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal), or rendering APIs (e.g., OpenGL, Vulkan).
• Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing solutions (e.g., Kubernetes, distributed file systems, data warehouses).
• Experience working in fast-moving or startup environments, ideally having led systems or products from early design through production and growth.
• A high bar for ownership and execution: you’re comfortable with ambiguity, take responsibility for outcomes, and drive work forward without waiting for perfect clarity.
• A product-first mindset: you care about data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance as core product features, not afterthoughts.
• Enjoy collaborating with a small, high-ownership team and raising the quality bar through code, data design, and example.

Who You Are:

• Fearless Innovator: We need people who thrive on challenges and aren't afraid to tackle the impossible.
• Resilient Builder: Impacting Large World Models isn't a sprint; it's a marathon with hurdles. We're looking for builders who can weather the storms of groundbreaking research and come out stronger.
• Mission-Driven Mindset: Everything we do is in service of creating the best spatially intelligent AI systems, and using them to empower people.
• Collaborative Spirit: We're building something bigger than any one person. We need team players who can harness the power of collective intelligence.

We're hiring the brightest minds from around the globe to bring diverse perspectives to our cutting-edge work. If you're ready to work on technology that will reshape how machines perceive and interact with the world, World Labs is your launchpad.

Join us, and let's make history together.

Equal Opportunity & Pay Transparency

Equal Employment Opportunity

World Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. We welcome all qualified applicants and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process upon request.

California Pay Transparency

In accordance with California law, we disclose the following: