Gaming Producer

Contract role at $43.00/hour; fully remote with required PST working hours.

About the role

Looking for a producer to help with execution and facilitate sprint ceremonies, manage sprint planning, and track team velocity and capacity. Owns feature delivery schedule and work item assignment. Identifies and escalates risks, dependencies, and blockers and maintains ADO documentation.

Responsibilities

Creating and maintaining sprint artifacts

• Creating and maintaining sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists
• Creating user story stubs, tasks, and bugs with leads and PMs; scrubbing the backlog and clearing stale work

Meetings and follow-up

• Creating meeting invites and preparing agendas, pre-reads, and status questions
• Running stand-ups, planning, triage, office hours, and retrospectives, either live or asynchronously
• Updating work items with decisions, owners, status, and next steps
• Maintaining action logs, reminders, and workflows; following up on blocked or at-risk work

Release and cross-team coordination

• Representing features or workstreams in release forums with leads and PMs
• Reviewing release queries, clearing stale work, updating fields, and confirming next actions
• Consolidating changelog review posts, tracking feedback and open items, and confirming follow-up with feature owners
• Partnering with QA to coordinate validation/test plans, reproductions, regression tracking, and release dependencies
• Tracking critical-path work, validation dependencies, readiness signals, release risks, and unresolved bugs
• Coordinating dependencies, partner commitments, and technical initiatives across teams; escalating decisions when needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, product development, or as a producer
• Deep familiarity with tools like ADO, Jira, or Confluence to manage tasks, plan sprints, and document pipelines
• Working knowledge of Agile or Scrum frameworks to manage team velocity and milestone delivery
• Ability to bridge gaps between creative artists, programmers, and executive stakeholders
• Flexible and able to thrive in an evolving environment; adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5–7 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
• Producer or strong TPM experience
• 4–7 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• Capacity to motivate cross-functional teams and resolve conflicts under tight deadlines

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other optional insurance plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• 401(k) with company match after 12 months of tenure
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• On-demand training program
• Access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months tenure
• Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA
• Dedicated customer service team for consultants and a certified Career Coach

Pay

$43.00 per hour

Schedule

Remote; must work Pacific Standard Time (PST) hours