Producer 3

Imagine playing a pivotal role in driving the development of cutting-edge technology that captivates millions of users worldwide. As a key orchestrator within a world-class engineering environment, you will have the unique opportunity to directly empower developer productivity, streamline critical workflows, and ensure the seamless execution of groundbreaking products. Your work will not only maintain momentum for highly collaborative teams but will also shape the digital experiences of a vast global audience.

Aquent is proud to partner with a global technology pioneer dedicated to pushing the boundaries of digital innovation and delivering excellence across a diverse portfolio of products. This visionary organization offers an unparalleled environment for professional growth, creativity, and real-world impact. By joining forces with this industry leader, you will be at the forefront of technological advancement, working alongside passionate professionals who are redefining how the world connects and interacts.

In this central and dynamic role, you will serve as the essential link coordinating day-to-day operations, facilitating agile rituals, and managing the planning and execution of key technical projects. You will ensure core engineering systems, builds, and testing pipelines run flawlessly, clearing the path for developers to focus on pure innovation. This position is vital for maintaining team velocity, proactively resolving blockers, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment where everyone can thrive.

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 project coordination.
• 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 in technical program management or project production.
• 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.