producer (contract)

**Producer (Contract)** *Please note that this is a contract role providing services to Microsoft through external staffing partners of Allegis Global Solutions. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by AGS and will not be an employee of Microsoft.* **Summary:** We are seeking a highly organized and technically fluent Producer/Technical Program Manager to join a fast\-paced Engineering Systems team within a leading game development studio. In this role, you will serve as the operational backbone of a team responsible for ensuring builds, tests, and engineering pipelines run smoothly for developers. You will facilitate sprint ceremonies, own feature delivery schedules, manage cross\-functional dependencies, and keep stakeholders aligned from day\-to\-day standups through major release milestones. This is a fully remote, full\-time contract position operating on Pacific Standard Time hours. **Job Responsibilities:** * Facilitate sprint ceremonies including stand\-ups, sprint planning, triage sessions, office hours, and retrospectives — both live and asynchronously * Create and maintain sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists * Own feature delivery schedules and work item assignments across the team * Create user story stubs, tasks, and bugs in collaboration with leads and PMs; scrub the backlog and clear stale work * Prepare meeting invites, agendas, pre\-reads, and status questions for recurring and ad hoc meetings * Update work items with decisions, owners, status, and next steps after every meeting or sync * Maintain action logs, reminders, and workflows; proactively follow up on blocked or at\-risk work * Identify, escalate, and track risks, dependencies, and blockers; maintain up\-to\-date documentation in ADO * Represent features or workstreams in release forums alongside leads and PMs * Review release queries, clear stale work, update fields, and confirm next actions with feature owners * Consolidate changelog review posts, track feedback and open items, and confirm follow\-up with feature owners * Partner with QA to coordinate validation and 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 teams; escalate decisions when needed * Manage team velocity and capacity planning to support milestone delivery **Requirements:** * 2\+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, product development, or as a producer (required) * 4\+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience (preferred) * 4\+ years of experience managing cross\-functional and/or cross\-team projects (preferred) * Producer or TPM experience within a gaming studio (s