Live Producer
Bethesda Game Studios · Rockville, MD
- On site
- Full-time
- $100,000 / year
- Rockville, MD
Job highlights
- Produce live AAA games from development to support.
- Manage game health, stability, and quality.
- Handle live service operations and incidents.
- Coordinate game updates and hotfixes.
- Drive continuous improvement and learning.
About the role
Overview
Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.
With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!
We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.
Responsibilities
Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios
As Live Producer, you will…
- Partner across teams from early development through long-term support, building the systems, standards, and processes that ensure live readiness.
- Manage the health, stability, and quality of live and pre-live game environments across all titles and release types.
- Serve as an on-call resource for a 24/7 live service, supporting operational needs beyond standard working hours across releases, incidents, readiness activities, and other critical periods.
- Triage issues across internal development and live service environments, coordinating with relevant teams to assess risk, drive resolution, and manage player impact.
- Manage the scheduling, testing, deployment, and communication of game updates and hotfixes, partnering with Release Management and technical teams to triage and resolve issues.
- Regularly play the games you support, identifying experiential issues such as flow breaks, stability degradation, or performance problems that technical checklists and metrics miss.
- Communicate product health, readiness, risks, and recommendations clearly to internal leadership, enabling informed decisions early.
- Inform initiative prioritization by clearly framing tradeoffs across player impact, operational risk, and development capacity.
- Coordinate technical initiatives across internal, cross-org, and contractor teams, ensuring quality and operational alignment as tools, pipelines, and needs evolve.
- Support contractor integration by serving as the central point of contact for onboarding and escalation, connecting contractors to the right people when blockers arise.
- Drive predictability and continuous improvement by applying lessons learned from releases and live incidents, supported by release reporting, metrics, retrospectives, and operational insights.
- Take on adjacent responsibilities as needed to support reliable releases as products, partners, tools, and operational needs evolve.
Qualifications
What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
- You have 3+ years of end‑to‑end, hands‑on AAA live service and production ownership across online titles, including multi‑product operations, readiness planning, dependency management, and multi-title release coordination.
- You have experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g.. Jenkins, Azure DevOps), deployment automation, and build stability practices including self-healing systems.
- You excel at leveraging automation solutions and tools to streamline workflows and minimize manual effort.
- You have a demonstrated ability to plan, track, and deliver on complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives.
- You have working knowledge of cloud technologies and online game infrastructure.
- You communicate clearly with internal stakeholders, with exceptional attention to detail.
- You adapt effectively in dynamic, ambiguous environments with competing priorities.
- You spot risks early and drive solutions that protect quality and multi-title delivery.
- You are experienced with agile development practices.
Preferred Skills
Bonus Skills
- You have experience in multiple game disciplines (design, engineering, art, or QA).
- You are experienced with first-party platform tools and services (Sony DevNet, Microsoft Partner Center, Steamworks).
- You have strong familiarity with BGS games.
Salary Range
Live Producer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $75,000 - $155,000 per year.
ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.
This is position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.
Key skills/competency
- Live Service Production
- Game Development
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Agile Methodologies
- Cloud Technologies
- Risk Management
- Release Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- AAA Game Production
- Live Operations
Skills & topics
- Live Producer
- Game Production
- Live Service
- AAA Games
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Production Management
- Release Management
- CI/CD
- Agile
- Cloud Technologies
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight AAA live service production, CI/CD, and cloud technologies experience.
- Showcase relevant skills: Emphasize problem-solving, risk assessment, and cross-team collaboration.
- Prepare for interviews: Discuss your experience with live game environments and agile practices.
- Demonstrate passion: Express your familiarity with Bethesda Game Studios titles and their impact.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the primary locations for the Live Producer role at Bethesda Game Studios?
- The Live Producer role at Bethesda Game Studios is open to candidates in Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; and Dallas, TX. Your primary work location will influence the specific base pay range.
- What is the expected salary range for a Live Producer at Bethesda Game Studios?
- The typical base pay range for a Live Producer at Bethesda Game Studios is expected to be between $75,000 and $155,000 per year. This range can vary based on your primary work location and other factors like experience and responsibilities.
- What are the key responsibilities of a Live Producer at Bethesda Game Studios?
- As a Live Producer, you will partner with teams throughout the game's lifecycle, manage live game environments, act as an on-call resource for a 24/7 live service, triage issues, coordinate game updates, and play the games to identify experiential problems.
- What qualifications are essential for the Live Producer position?
- Essential qualifications include 3+ years of AAA live service production ownership, experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, ability to leverage automation tools, planning complex initiatives, knowledge of cloud technologies, clear communication, and experience with agile development practices.
- Are there any preferred or bonus skills for a Live Producer at Bethesda Game Studios?
- Preferred bonus skills include experience in multiple game disciplines (design, engineering, art, QA), familiarity with first-party platform tools (Sony DevNet, Microsoft Partner Center, Steamworks), and strong familiarity with Bethesda Game Studios titles.
- What kind of benefits does Bethesda Game Studios offer its employees?
- Bethesda Game Studios offers a generous benefits program including healthcare, a 401(k) plan with company match, disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off for vacation, sick and mental health, and several paid holidays.
- How does Bethesda Game Studios ensure a good work-life balance for its employees?
- Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in desirable cities. They also welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and unique skillsets.