Technical Producer

Lucid Consulting was established to offer a curated community of on-demand experts with broad professional skills and experience. We are a people-focused, customer-driven consulting firm that helps organizations drive growth, adapt to change, and create value. Our deep technical, financial, and marketing capabilities help to deliver transformative solutions and consulting capabilities for a broad list of clients.

We put your skills and expertise to work by pairing you with high-impact projects at highly competitive rates.

Job Title: Producer

Location: Hybrid - Redmond, WA (once a week working onsite)

Schedule: M-F, 40 HR

Start Date: 4/10/2025

Salary Range: $49- $55/hourly

Candidates with previous experience working at Microsoft Corporation, either as a full-time employee (FTE) or contractor, are strongly preferred.

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: Technical Producer, World’s Edge Engineering Teams - World’s Edge studio is looking for a passionate technical producer with experience managing engineering teams with varied skillsets, tech stacks and objectives. Our ideal candidate is detail-oriented, motivated by working in a fast-paced environment while managing details for multiple projects and comfortable engaging with highly technical problems that need to be clearly communicated to a wide internal audience.

• Key projects: In this role, you’ll work closely with the World’s Edge Engineering teams and their leads, as well as studio product and business teams, to ensure priorities are carefully considered and met. You’ll help define key processes, assess and identify tools and workflows that make the work more efficient, and scope projects and risks to build predictability across multiple technical projects and services.es.

Job Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day tasks will vary dependent on the needs of the World’s Edge Engineering teams and current product or business priorities, but key responsibilities include:
• 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 World’s Edge 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.

Qualifications:

• 5-7 overall years of experience in the field.
• NO degree is required to be eligible for this role. MSFT experience preferred.
• Disqualifiers: Candidates without gaming team experience will not be eligible for the role.

Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain

• 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

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with general software development practices and processes.
• 4 years of experience managing projects for large and small teams.
• 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

Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience

1. Minimum 4 years experience working on a games team

2. Minimum 4 years experience with project management tools – creating clear dashboards and documentation

3. Minimum 4 years experience with organizational communications

NOTE: We seek applicants with prior experience as contractors or full-time employees (FTE) at Microsoft Corporation. Additionally, we welcome applications for entry-level or junior consultant roles, as well as from individuals with a strong industry background aligned with the listed requirements.

This opportunity is open to individuals authorized to work in the United States. Unfortunately, visa sponsorship and C2C opportunities are not available at this time.