Technical Product Owner - Game Engine/Tools

Your Impact

• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with developers, designers, and QA, and create a player-centered team culture with a vision that everyone has bought into.
• Curate the project backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority tasks, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks.
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of our internal teams as they work to build meaningful games. You’ll also leverage user interviews and technical data to find high-value improvements.
• Drive a long-term Platform roadmap that paves the foundations to enable our games to deliver on their own impactful objectives.
• Effectively scope projects and experiments so that they are lean but also add enough value to validate your hypotheses.
• Consistently communicate what your team is working on and releasing to partner teams.
• Champion the accomplishments of your team to the rest of the company, ensuring that proper recognition is given.

About You

• Over 10+ years of experience in the game development field with a focus and passion for engines, game tooling, and pipelines.
• A deep understanding of what distinguishes excellent engines and tooling, recognizing the nuances between various engines and their impact on productivity.
• A clear passion for building a great product, and the ability to create a vision that inspires your team.
• You have the ability to break down large projects into manageable tasks and use metrics to add significant value to a product.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for product decisions.
• The ability to scope projects so that every part of them plays a key role in your overall objective.
• Previous experience collaborating closely with engineers, developers, UX designers, and other team members.
• Passionate about gaming, with a keen understanding of current trends and market dynamics.

Bonus Points

• While you’ve worked with common engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.), you’ve also had the opportunity to work on proprietary engines
• WEB BROWSER PERFORMANCE
• Experience with Live Service Games

Core Technologies

• Our game is built using a bespoke HTML5 game engine and editor built on top of PixiJS and written in TypeScript.
• Our Game Editor is an Electron App written using React/Typescript.

Working At Prodigy

• Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning! At Prodigy Education, your work positively impacts the lives of millions of students and teachers worldwide.
• Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members, so you grow as we do. You’ll also work on award-winning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st-8th.
• We understand that a thriving team is at the core of our success. So, on top of an inspirational mission and rewarding work, our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial, physical, and mental well-being.
• It’s not just about the work though; it's about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: "Prodigy’s secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving.” Check it out here.
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