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 an experienced Technical Program Manager / Producer to join a fast\-paced engineering systems team supporting game development. In this role, you will be the operational backbone of a highly technical team — facilitating sprint ceremonies, managing delivery schedules, tracking team velocity, and ensuring that builds, tests, and engineering pipelines run smoothly for developers. You will serve as the connective tissue between creative artists, programmers, QA, and executive stakeholders, keeping cross\-functional work aligned and moving forward. This is a fully remote, contract position requiring availability during Pacific Standard Time business hours. **Job Responsibilities:** * Facilitate sprint ceremonies including stand\-ups, sprint planning, triage sessions, office hours, and retrospectives — both live and asynchronously * Own the feature delivery schedule and manage work item assignment across the team * Create and maintain sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists * Create meeting invites and prepare agendas, pre\-reads, and status questions for team rituals * Create user story stubs, tasks, and bugs in collaboration with leads and PMs; scrub the backlog and clear stale work * Update work items with decisions, owners, status, and next steps after every meeting or sync * Maintain action logs, reminders, and workflows; follow up on blocked or at\-risk work items * 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 **Requirements:** * 5–7 years of experience in technical program management, production, product management, data analysis, or product development * 4–7 years of experience managing cross\-functional and/or cross\-team projects * Producer or TPM experience within a gaming studio strongly preferred * Demonstrated experience running Agile ceremonies and managing sprint\-based delivery for engineering or development teams * Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field required; equivale