Producer 3

Overview

Aquent is partnering with a global leader in technology, renowned for shaping the future of digital experiences and creating products that captivate millions worldwide. This innovative company is dedicated to pushing boundaries and delivering excellence across its diverse portfolio.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Producer to join a pivotal Engineering Systems team. In this dynamic role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth operation and efficiency of critical development processes, directly impacting developer productivity and the overall quality of groundbreaking products. Your expertise will empower engineering teams, streamline workflows, and help deliver exceptional user experiences to a vast global audience.

About the Role

As a Producer, you will play a central role in coordinating day-to-day team operations, facilitating sprint rituals, and managing the planning and execution of projects for the Engineering Systems team. You will be the linchpin that ensures builds, tests, and engineering systems run smoothly, allowing developers to focus on innovation. This role is crucial for maintaining velocity, identifying and resolving blockers, and fostering a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, manage sprint planning, and track team velocity and capacity.
• Own the feature delivery schedule and work item assignment, ensuring timely and efficient execution.
• Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, and blockers, maintaining comprehensive documentation in project management tools.
• Create and maintain sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists.
• Collaborate with leads and product managers to create user story stubs, tasks, and bugs, while actively scrubbing the backlog and clearing stale work.
• Organize and prepare for meetings by creating invites, drafting agendas, and preparing pre-reads and status questions.
• Lead and run stand-ups, planning sessions, triage meetings, office hours, and retrospectives, both live and asynchronously.
• Ensure all work items are updated with decisions, owners, status, and next steps.
• Maintain action logs, reminders, and workflows, diligently following up on blocked or at-risk work to keep projects on track.
• Represent features or workstreams in release forums, collaborating with leads and product managers.
• Review release queries, clear stale work, update fields, and confirm next actions for releases.
• Consolidate changelog review posts, track feedback and open items, and confirm follow-up with feature owners.
• Partner with QA teams to coordinate validation/test plans, reproductions, regression tracking, and release dependencies.
• Track critical-path work, validation dependencies, readiness signals, release risks, and unresolved bugs.
• Coordinate dependencies, partner commitments, and technical initiatives across various teams, escalating decisions when necessary to maintain project momentum.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 4+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, product development, or as a producer.
• Deep familiarity with industry-standard tools like ADO, Jira, or Confluence for task management, sprint planning, and documenting pipelines.
• Proven working knowledge of Agile or Scrum frameworks to effectively manage team velocity and milestone delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge communication gaps and foster collaboration between creative artists, programmers, and executive stakeholders.
• A flexible mindset, thriving in evolving environments and adapting to change quickly and positively.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5-7 years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience.
• Strong background as a Producer or Technical Program Manager.
• 4-7 years of experience managing complex cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Capacity to motivate cross-functional teams and adeptly resolve conflicts under tight deadlines.
• Prior experience working within a gaming studio environment.