Producer 3

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. Join us in supporting a company that is shaping the future of digital entertainment!

Are you a highly motivated and organized individual ready to make a significant impact? Step into a pivotal role within a dynamic Engineering Systems team, where your contributions will be instrumental in coordinating day-to-day operations, streamlining workflows, and ensuring that foundational builds, tests, and engineering systems run seamlessly for developers. This is your chance to 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. Your work will directly empower development teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences to a vast global audience, bringing innovative ideas to life and delighting millions worldwide.

What You'll Do

As a key contributor to the Engineering Systems team, you will be at the heart of accelerating development velocity and empowering teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences. You will lead the coordination of daily operations, optimize workflows, and ensure the seamless functioning of essential engineering systems. Your role is critical in identifying and mitigating risks, fostering clear communication, and driving projects forward with precision and foresight. You will champion efficient processes, from sprint planning to release management, directly contributing to the creation of world-class digital products that delight millions globally.

• 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

To thrive in this role, you'll bring a blend of technical understanding, project management expertise, and exceptional communication skills. You are a proactive problem-solver, capable of navigating complex environments and driving efficiency across diverse teams.

• 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

These qualifications will set you apart and demonstrate an even deeper level of expertise and readiness to contribute significantly to our team:

• 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.