Sr. Technical Producer

We are seeking a highly analytical and organized Sr. Technical Producer to serve as the vital link between product requests and engineering execution. In this role, you will ensure projects are properly scoped, prioritized, and delivered on time, all while maintaining a balanced, sustainable workload for our development team.

As an operational anchor and people leader, you will integrate deeply with the team to drive key objectives, optimize capacity, and clear technical roadblocks.

Technical Project Management & Delivery

• Roadmap & Priority Tracking: Build and manage systems to track deadlines, manage ad-hoc requests, and independently allocate daily task assignments.
• Scoping & Sprint Planning: Partner with the Director and team leads to scope new requests, establish clear acceptance criteria, and run daily standups and sprint planning.
• Unblocking & Delivery: Actively identify and clear technical blockers, dynamically adjusting timelines and keeping stakeholders informed to keep engineers focused.
• Cross-Domain Coordination: Track diverse projects across database infrastructure, player tracking, payment systems, internal tools, and GDPR maintenance.

People Leadership

• Coaching & 1:1s: Drive a regular rhythm of 1:1s focused on aligning career goals, clearing professional roadblocks, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Mentorship: Actively mentor team members on data engineering best practices
• Onboarding & Growth: Champion the onboarding experience for new data team members to guarantee they are set up for long-term success.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Process Optimization

• Partnership collaboration: Partner with internal teams (Marketing, Support) and external platforms (Tencent, Sony, Steam)
• Continuous Improvement: Lead post-mortems when milestones are missed to identify process or scoping inefficiencies, implementing data-driven solutions to mitigate future risk.
• Documentation: Centralize technical knowledge by ensuring system architecture and process documentation remain up to date and accessible.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in technical project management, production, or technical operations, ideally within gaming, data infrastructure, or live-service tech.
• Technical Literacy: Strong conceptual understanding of modern software architecture, including API integrations, database logic, and the relationship between frontend and backend systems.
• Tooling: Experience using organizational tools like Jira, Basecamp, and Confluence to build workflows and dashboards that provide clear visibility into team progress and capacity.
• Strategic Inquiry: An ability to talk to developers and ask the questions that uncover risks or hidden work before it’s too late.
• Problem Solving: Ability to use data to identify workflow bottlenecks and suggest structural improvements rather than simply moving tasks through a queue.
• Independent Judgement: A track record of managing project workflows independently, with the professional maturity to know when to ask for guidance on high-stakes decisions.
• Communication: Ability to update stakeholders on progress and coordinate with QA and Support to ensure a high-quality end product.

“Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada at the time of application.”

Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Digital Extremes is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value a candidate brings.

Salary Range: $115,000 - $125,000

We believe in the power of human connection. At Digital Extremes, we do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select candidates. All applications are reviewed by human, qualified recruiters.

During your interview, our recruitment team will leverage  Gemini as a note-taker only. At Digital Extremes, a core value of our studio is that we do not leverage AI in any of our development processes; this is a strict company policy.

ABOUT DIGITAL EXTREMES

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world's top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games' multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector®, BioShock® for the PlayStation®3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness® II. The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of 75 million registered players on PC, PS4™, PS5™, Xbox One™, Xbox Series X/S™, Nintendo Switch™, and iOS™. The studio's most recently announced project is the much anticipated Soulframe®, an open-world action-fantasy MMORPG title that is currently under development.