The Digital Producer is a member of the Production team responsible for successfully delivering engineering projects within our portfolio of companies. The role focuses on delivering large, complex development projects in partnership with cross-functional teams of strategists, designers, and developers.

The Role

• Spearheading the delivery of large and intricate development projects while closely collaborating with cross-functional teams of strategists, designers, and developers.
• Assessing the complexity of wireframes or designs and strategizing the development team's workflow by breaking down tasks, establishing timelines, and managing project backlogs.
• Attaining a comprehensive understanding of the product's technical specifications, covering frontend architecture, CMS implementation, and integrations for various functionalities such as site search, advertising, APIs, personalization tools, localization, internationalization, and analytics.
• Implementing agile principles and methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to ensure the smooth delivery of projects.
• Leading Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, and Sprint Demos in collaboration with the Client Engagement/Production lead and Technical Director.
• Proficiently utilizing JIRA to create and manage issues, tasks, and user stories based on approved designs and annotations.
• Creating issues (stories, tasks, and bugs) for the team, aligning with approved designs and annotations.
• Translating approved product roadmaps and technical architectures into actionable stories for product development.
• Maintaining the backlog of JIRA issues, ensuring alignment with project objectives and goals through prioritization.
• Conducting ticket estimation exercises to facilitate precise project planning and resource allocation.
• Leading agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, grooming, and demos in close collaboration with production and technical directors.
• Maintaining and updating project status documents and reports for both internal and client-facing purposes.
• Proactively identifying risks and issues, and collaborating with the project team to devise effective mitigation strategies.
• Fostering close collaboration with counterpart producers and technical directors to ensure alignment of project goals, effective communication, and timely issue resolution.
• Drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, productivity, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Possessing expertise in software engineering practices and best practices for the entire software development lifecycle and operations
• Experience with Agile principles & values, and frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban
• Experience with Atlassian’s suite of products, including Jira and Confluence
• Experience working with commonly used CMS platforms such as Contentful, Drupal, WordPress, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Yext
• Participated in the successful delivery and deployment of enterprise-level engineering projects (both principal engineering and maintenance)

Nice to Have

• Prior agency/services experience
• Experience with Github
• Certifications such as ScrumAlliance - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)