Producer 3

This is an on-site role in Redmond.

Pay Range: $42/hr - $47/hr

Aquent is partnering with a leading technology company at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to creating groundbreaking experiences that resonate with millions globally. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is crucial to the development ecosystem, ensuring seamless operations and enabling creators to bring their visions to life. As a vital member of the Engineering Systems team, you will directly influence the efficiency and success of development cycles, making a tangible impact on the creation of world-class digital products.

We are seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to join our client's Engineering Systems team. In this dynamic role, you will be instrumental in coordinating day-to-day team operations, streamlining workflows, and ensuring that builds, tests, and engineering systems run smoothly for developers. Your expertise will directly contribute to accelerating development velocity and maintaining high-quality standards within a vibrant gaming studio environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.