Description
We are looking for a Producer to join our team of innovators and creative technologists building the future of workplace training. Your core responsibilities will include enabling a Scrum team of engineers. You will operate in a fast-paced, agile environment with the opportunity to work on many different types of projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage Agile planning rituals
- Manage team of engineers supporting product development
- Work with the team to develop task descriptions and timelines
- Work with the PO to maintain a healthy backlog
- Work with PO to ensure priority matches release needs
- Work with QA team and PO to triage bugs
- Release output of a given sprint or development cycle
- Plan, scope, and budget features
- Maintain budgets and resources through the course of each release
- Plan releases and coordinate with other departments to ensure release schedule is met
- Provide regular progress reports to the Director of Production
- Ensure that project files and documentation are properly organized and archived
- Maintain relationship with team members and work to keep team morale high
Skills
- Familiarity of experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence)
- Strong understanding of development methodologies and team organization strategies
- Effective organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to build and maintain project timelines and milestone documentation, supervising the progress of department milestones and individual tasks against those schedules
- Schedule and coordinate milestone deliveries
- Experience managing features through entire life cycle including design, creation and launch
- Manage incoming bug reports and prioritize fixes
- Ability to work well on a small Agile Scrum team in a fluid, fast-paced environment
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of production experience
- Validated experience producing and leading cross-functional creative development teams and resources while meeting quality and schedule goals
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget
- Experience adapting plans and processes quickly
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Experience managing teams of creative professionals
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
- CSM, PMP or comparable work experience
- Department of Defense experience a plus
- VR or Game Development experience a plus
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
This is a contract-to-hire position.
