Producer 3

Overview

Aquent is proud to partner with a leading technology company that stands at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to crafting groundbreaking digital experiences that captivate and resonate with millions globally. This organization is a pioneer in its field, constantly pushing boundaries to deliver world-class products that define entertainment and engagement for a vast audience.

We are seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to join a pivotal Engineering Systems team. In this dynamic role, you will be instrumental in coordinating day-to-day operations, streamlining workflows, and ensuring that the foundational builds, tests, and engineering systems run seamlessly for developers. You will directly influence the efficiency and success of development cycles, making a tangible impact on the creation of world-class digital products and accelerating development velocity within a vibrant studio environment.

What You’ll Do

• Facilitate sprint ceremonies, manage sprint planning, and track team velocity and capacity to drive efficient project execution.
• Own the feature delivery schedule and assign work items, ensuring clear accountability and progress.
• Identify and proactively escalate risks, dependencies, and blockers, while maintaining comprehensive documentation in tools like ADO.
• Create and maintain essential sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists.
• Collaborate with leads and Product Managers to create user story stubs, tasks, and bugs, and actively scrub the backlog to clear stale work.
• Schedule and prepare for meetings, including creating invites, agendas, pre-reads, and status questions.
• Lead and run stand-ups, planning sessions, triage, office hours, and retrospectives, both live and asynchronously.
• Ensure work items are consistently updated with decisions, owners, status, and next steps.
• Maintain action logs, reminders, and workflows, diligently following up on blocked or at-risk work.
• Represent features or workstreams in release forums, engaging with leads and Product Managers.
• Review release queries, clear stale work, update fields, and confirm next actions for smooth deployments.
• Consolidate changelog review posts, track feedback and open items, and confirm follow-up with feature owners.
• Partner closely with Quality Assurance 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.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, product development, or as a producer.
• Deep familiarity with project management tools such as ADO, Jira, or Confluence for task management, sprint planning, and pipeline documentation.
• Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum frameworks to effectively manage team velocity and milestone delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge communication gaps between creative artists, programmers, and executive stakeholders.
• Proven flexibility and ability to thrive in an evolving environment.
• Capacity to adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 4+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development, OR equivalent experience.
• Prior producer or Technical Program Manager experience within a gaming studio environment.
• 4+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Capacity to motivate cross-functional teams and resolve conflicts effectively under tight deadlines.