Job Description

Location: US-based (Remote or Hybrid)
Type: Perm or FTC (Fixed-Term Contract)
Start Date: June 2025 (TBC)

Nexus Studios is an award-winning global studio in film and experience design. Our world-class directors, producers, artists, and technologists create groundbreaking works for entertainment, music, sports, and brands. With studios in LA, London, and Sydney, we specialise in creating film and experiences across all platforms, including cutting-edge work in XR. Our in-house team of artists and engineers work side by side, delivering a prolific multi-platform output. Our work has received accolades from BAFTA, Emmy, Cannes Grand Prix, Grammy, Annie and the Oscars. Recent highlights include the epic UFC 306 night at the Las Vegas Sphere, Pedigree's AI-supercharged Adoptable campaign, a series of video and live activations for Gorillaz, and ‘The House’, the Netflix special. 

Requirements

The Role:

We are now looking for a Head of Technology to lead the engineering strategy and execution for a new third-party immersive sports product, built with the new Meta Spatial SDK and Kotlin/GLSL. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for defining scalable systems, leading cross-functional teams, and integrating seamlessly with emerging SDKs and partner infrastructure.

This is a live, fan-facing product—not content delivery. The technical strategy must support real-time performance, extensibility across leagues and features, and a clear path from MVP through launch and live operations. You'll work closely with product, design, and partner teams to ensure we deliver a robust, performant experience that evolves over time.

What You’ll Do:

• Leading the overall technology approach from prototype through live operations.
• Building and mentoring a multidisciplinary engineering and technical art team focused on modular delivery and scalable systems.
• Working with our Streaming Platform Technical Director to define system architecture across frontend, backend, and data pipelines in coordination with external platforms.
• Working with our Production, Resourcing and Exec teams to define and recruit for technical roles required to deliver the full product.
• Integrating with emerging spatial SDKs, real-time engines, and partner-based tooling.
• Overseeing QA, testing, performance optimization, and release readiness.
• Driving immersive feature development and backend systems that support personalization and fan-centric content.
• Continuously improving infrastructure, live service workflows, and dev ops and live ops tools.
• Collaborating with product and production leads to scope and sequence delivery.
• Managing partner-facing documentation, risk mitigation, and technical alignment.

What You Will Bring:

• Have 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ leading teams in product-oriented environments.
• Have built or scaled real-time systems, AR/VR/XR applications, or other immersive platforms.
• Know how to integrate and extend third-party SDKs within live services.
• Are confident managing ambiguity, prioritizing stability, and communicating tradeoffs.
• Understand how to design for modular development and phased feature rollout.
• Are familiar with U.S. sports and fan behavior and can translate that into scalable system choices.
• Are excited by the challenge of building for live, high-emotion moments and performance under pressure.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience building or integrating systems for sports leagues, fan engagement tools, or data-rich entertainment products.
• Prior exposure to Meta Spatial SDK, Android Kotlin development or new platform tooling.
• Familiarity with platform QA standards, sentiment-driven performance metrics, and app store readiness.
• Experience with Unity, Unreal, or other immersive engines.
• Collaborative experience with external platform teams or co-development environments.
• A passion for sports, live storytelling, and what immersive platforms can unlock for fandom.

Benefits

This is a Nexus-led role, embedded in a highly collaborative, partner-facing development environment. You’ll help define not just what we build, but how we build it - helping to define the product team structure, delivery approach, and evolution of a platform with global reach.

If you’re excited about building what’s next in sports, immersive media, and fan engagement, we’d love to talk.

Nexus Studios is proud to work with extraordinary talent as an equal opportunity employer. We embrace individuals of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, age, abilities or sexual preferences. Our recruitment process is merit-based, ensuring fair treatment to every applicant.