What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Producer (Engineering) position at Ascendion?
About Ascendion :
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000 Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
- Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience
Experience a community of change makers!
Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
About the Role:
Job Title: Technical Producer (Game Engineering)
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Assist with the coordination of technical feature development and maintenance.
- Act as a critical partner in managing internal and external (or vendor) resources to ensure strong understanding and execution across projects.
- Maintain regular communication, quality assessments, and progress tracking. Communication practices also include consistent and cadent check-ins with different teams to better understand their individual needs, as well as communicating out to stakeholders and leads effectively via presentations, status reports and more.
- Assist in planning, scoping, prioritizing and scheduling feature development with the technical leads and other key stakeholders. Plan sprints with regular cadence to generate an effective team velocity.
- Be an advocate for clear and concise technical documentation and communication and champion effective process across teams.
- Be a partner to the development lead in all aspects of delivering high quality technical features.
- Help ensure software quality levels through coordination and defining best practices.
Requirements:
- Familiarity with general software development practices and processes.
- 4 years of experience managing projects for teams large and small.
- Ability to coordinate, collaborate and build effective partnerships cross-discipline.
- Proficiency in project management tools, such as Azure DevOps/Jira, Confluence and MS Suite.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, proactively and inclusively within all levels of the organization.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
Preferred:
- Experience working with incident management tools and on-call best practices
- Experience working with game teams in a fast-paced environment
- Basic understanding of PR (pull request) process and code commit.
- Scrum or other Agile methodology experience a plus
Location: Redmond, WA (Hybrid, once a week onsite)
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $121,000- $ 141,000 Annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal day accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 day of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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Salary : $121,000 - $141,000
