About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Technical Producer to guide a creative and technical team, anticipate needs, establish initial processes, and foster a productive environment. This role involves close collaboration with discipline leads for organization and scheduling, and with leadership for stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, possesses a positive and flexible attitude, and can scale processes effectively.
Responsibilities
- Understand objectives, goals, and technical vision of the tech team and overall product.
- Develop and execute aligned production processes, focusing on technical workstream sequencing, dependency management, and feedback loops.
- Break down, quantify, and task technical work, including build systems, infrastructure, and platform integration.
- Build and maintain roadmaps, milestone schedules, and team plans considering technical complexity and platform requirements.
- Track progress across technical workstreams and proactively surface risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Select, implement, and maintain production tooling and processes for technical teams.
- Prepare progress reports and presentation materials for stakeholders and leadership.
- Foster clear communication and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Identify resource needs and collaborate with leadership to address them.
- Establish scalable technical production foundations and onboard future technical producers.
- Communicate identified technical challenges and planned solutions to the production team.
- Collaborate with internal and external technical teams to achieve objectives.
Requirements
- Experience in game production with substantial senior-level time across multiple shipped titles in a technical production role.
- Experience with both internal and external production, tracking and reporting progress for internal dev teams and third parties.
- Proven track record delivering games across more than one platform or genre.
- Experience managing and developing a team of producers embedded in technical teams.
- Proven ability to build and own technical production processes from scratch in an early-stage environment.
- Strong command of agile methodologies and ability to select and implement appropriate tooling for technical teams (e.g., Jira, Linear, Perforce, GitHub).
- Skilled at working with engineers and discipline leads to define, scope, and sequence technically complex work, including understanding build pipelines, branching strategies, and integration cadences.
- Comfortable reading and interpreting technical documentation, sprint metrics, and system architecture overviews.
- Confident preparing clear progress reports and stakeholder-facing materials.
- Self-directed and able to operate effectively with limited oversight in a fast-moving technical environment.
- Background in UGC is preferred.
- Experience working within a large consumer brand or entertainment company with external technical partners or licensors is preferred.
- Prior experience as an engineer, technical artist, or in a technical role before moving into production is a nice-to-have.
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Production tooling (Jira, Linear, Perforce, GitHub)
- Technical production processes
- Build systems
- Infrastructure milestones
- Platform integration
- Roadmap development
- Milestone scheduling
- Team planning
- Risk management
- Dependency management
- Version control workflows
- Issue tracking
- Communication
- Knowledge sharing
- Resource management
- Onboarding
- Technical documentation interpretation
- Sprint metrics analysis
- System architecture overview
- Stakeholder reporting
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- LEGO Digital Play aims to bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment through innovative, wholly-owned experiences.
- The mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains a significant part of children's lives and to provide meaningful, magical, and playful experiences to kids, parents, and adult fans.
- This is an early-stage company offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for a beloved brand.
- The company culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
