Video Game Manager-Volunteer Leadership role

About Us

The Donovan’s Venom is a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on curating universal accessibility to fine arts and music education for all. We are passionately dedicated to ensuring that everyone, regardless of financial circumstances, has access to high-quality music education, performance opportunities, and fine art. We aim to inspire, empower, and uplift communities by fostering a love for music and the arts through our commitment to education, inclusivity, diversity, and social impact, which drives us to expand our reach continually and enrich the lives of those we serve.

Position Overview

The Video Game Manager will provide strategic, creative, and operational leadership for the development of The Donovan’s Venom’s video game projects. This role is responsible for overseeing the game development lifecycle from concept and planning through execution and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, coordination, and execution of video game development projects from concept through completion.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and development schedules.

• Organize and coordinate the game development team, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, priorities, and expectations.

• Assign tasks to team members, monitor progress, and ensure deliverables are completed within established timelines.

• Collaborate with game designers, developers, artists, writers, audio professionals, and other contributors to maintain alignment across teams.

• Help shape the game's concept, gameplay direction, mechanics, player experience, storytelling, and overall creative vision.

• Establish project priorities and manage workflows to keep development organized, efficient, and focused on key objectives.

• Monitor project progress, identify risks, resolve workflow challenges, and communicate updates to leadership and relevant stakeholders.

• Review game features, builds, and deliverables to ensure they meet established creative, technical, and quality expectations.

• Facilitate team meetings, planning sessions, progress reviews, and project retrospectives to maintain communication and accountability.

• Support resource planning and help identify the tools, skills, and personnel needed to successfully execute the project.

• Continuously improve development processes, documentation, collaboration practices, and project management workflows.

Disclaimer

This is a volunteer position and does not constitute employment. Responsibilities may evolve based on organizational needs. As a 100% volunteer-led U.S. nonprofit organization, we may engage volunteers located outside the United States. International volunteer participation is subject to applicable U.S. sanctions and export-control requirements, data privacy and information-security requirements, background screening where appropriate, and confirmation that the volunteer’s country and assigned responsibilities have been approved by the organization.