The Senior Technical Producer leads complex technical projects, ensuring timely delivery through Agile methodologies, managing development plans, and fostering client relationships.
Instrument is a remote-first digital product and brand experience agency with a team of over 200 talented individuals, organized across four specialized teams. Each team brings its expertise to life through best-in-class work, crafting transformative experiences for our clients. Our shift to a fully remote model has opened new doors for creativity, flexibility, and stronger client relationships. This approach not only strengthens our culture but also allows us to embrace diverse voices, perspectives, and ideas.
You can lead a complex technical project and find paths forward that enable teams to create great experiences. You know and utilize best practices in producing (including account, project, and product management), yet you don’t follow a formula or merely execute. You’re able to drive every phase of the project lifecycle, partnering with clients, strategists, writers, designers, and developers—embracing and supporting all individuals. You speak all their languages while tirelessly advocating for the most successful project outcome: meeting business goals alongside user needs. From concept to execution you’re always influencing and implementing what is needed to move the project forward.
What You'll Do
- Lead large, challenging, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish, leveraging Agile methodologies and CI/CD processes to drive efficient workflows, continuous integration, and seamless delivery
- Create and actively manage all development aspects of a project plans, focusing on all technical aspects to ensure milestones and objectives are met on time and within scope.
- Provide value and support throughout the entire project cycle by driving production strategies that influence the development process, team dynamics, and client relationships with a focus on impactful technical outcomes.
- Have an expert understanding of and curiosity about development processes and best in class digital execution
- Balance innovation and practicality in your production approaches and evaluation of technical feasibility of the work being made.
- Maintain development velocity throughout the project lifecycle, proactively surfacing risks to delivery to minimize down-time, ensuring people are involved at the appropriate times for project success.
- Collaborate with Tech Leads to write, clarify, refine, assign, and estimate tickets.
- Lead "design breakdown" sessions with project developers to ensure a clear understanding of tasks.
- Lead sprint rituals and estimation meetings to drive efficiency in project execution.
- Embody our proactive work approaches. You know when to take the initiative, work independently or collaboratively, think big or small to be 10 steps ahead
- Communicate ideas well in all written and verbal interactions in order to build strong relationships and inform the right actions are taken
- Find a way through every scenario with positivity and a sense a calm as both a good team member and client partner
What You'll Bring
- 5-8 years experience as Producer on complex projects, leading the production of technical teams, managing projects and/or products.
- Experience directly managing enterprise-level clients as well as large, multidisciplinary internal project teams with respect
- Ability to “translate” between development team/clients/work, keeping everyone’s interests and needs integrated as part of a project’s successful completion
- Expertise with software development processes and terminology.
- Experience in software development processes, Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and related terminology, facilitating smoother collaboration and delivery.
Pay Range
- The expected pay range for this role is $65-$72 per hour
- Our company has three regional pay bands that it adheres to depending on your location, we reference them as US 1, US 2, and US 3.
- US 3 is our base pay. Examples of cities in US 3 are Portland, Houston and Miami.
- US 2 pay is 7.5% higher than US 3 to meet the market rates. Examples of cities in US 2 are Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.
- US 1 pay is 15% higher than US 3 to meet market rates. Examples of cities in US 1 are Brooklyn and San Francisco.
- If you are curious which region you are in, please apply and get connected with our recruiting team!
Top Skills
Agile Methodologies
Ci/Cd Processes
Software Development Processes
Technical Project Management
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