Game Producer

Summary

Join Voldex, a leading UGC games company, as a Game Producer to ensure timely content delivery for a top-performing Roblox game. You will collaborate with art, design, engineering, and QA teams, managing project schedules, tracking progress, and mitigating risks. Success in this role requires experience shipping games or live-service content, knowledge of the Roblox platform, and strong cross-functional collaboration skills. You'll be responsible for project management, delivery and release management, communication and community engagement, and content and design tasks. Voldex offers a fully remote work environment with flexible hours and various benefits.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success in a Roblox/Minecraft/Fortnite game production role (at least 1-2 yrs exp). You have previously shipped a full game, feature, or live-service content in the video game industry
• Knowledge and understanding of the Roblox platform and ecosystem, or other UGC gaming platforms (ie Minecraft/Fortnite)
• Firm grasp of industry best practices and a willingness to share your know-how with a growing game company
• Ability to build, track, and maintain complex schedules and deliverables
• History of collaborating with cross-discipline teams (art, design, engineering, QA, etc)

Responsibilities

• Establish an overall project schedule for the upcoming 60-90 days based on the individual task estimates for the features on the roadmap
• Track velocity to avoid over-commitment and over-tasking
• Ensure the impact of scope or capacity changes are understood across stakeholders (what are the trade-offs?)
• Coordinate with central teams (Art, QA) to ensure capacity is available and project timelines can be met
• Evaluate and improve process and tools over time, partnering with other Voldex Producers and sharing learnings
• Maintain project management tool to ensure that x-functional team are on task and stakeholders can easily track progress
• Manage day-to-day operations of the team
• Prioritize, schedule, and track tasks to ensure a timely delivery of the team’s work whilst ensuring the quality meets the project requirements
• Order and evaluate assets in partnership with Art team
• Schedule and coordinate QA support for weekly builds
• Manage QA Places to ensure developers know where to work and stakeholders can easily access test builds
• Partner with marketing to update relevant marketing materials (icon, thumbnail, name)
• Organize and direct on-call process (i.e., when urgent hotfixes are required)
• Schedule and oversee releases retrospectives so that team improves over time
• Own all release updates
• Monitor community feedback and sentiment and surfaces key themes to relevant individuals
• Complete relevant documentation for weekly numbers review (if required)
• Ensure game design documents are translated into asset request documents completely and accurately (either by doing or by ensuring that game design completes)
• Maintain platform knowledge, understanding competitors and general [Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft] trends
• Review art assets and provide actionable feedback, if necessary
• Add content (e.g., cosmetics) directly into the game
• Provide game design feedback based on platform knowledge, game experience, and community feedback
• Regularly complete basic game edits in Roblox Studio (prior experience not required)

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with Project Management tools (we use Monday.com but experience Jira, or others are great)
• Experience working with live games (aka GaaS, live-ops, live-service)
• History of managing fully remote and geographically dispersed teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Retirement benefits - depending on the country, there's company contribution!
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits - depending on the country, there's additional benefits (Life, ADD, EAP)
• 20 days of PTO + Federal / Bank Holidays
• Flexible working hours
• 100% Remote; we have always been remote and will remain that way
• In person get togethers, virtual company-wide game nights, Robux and so much more!
• Work with awesome people and impact millions of daily players