Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Team Red Dog is hiring a Technical Program Manager and Producer to support the Minecraft Engineering Systems team for a global technology leader. The role drives engineering execution by coordinating Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, release readiness, QA validation, testing dependencies, and cross-team initiatives. It also provides visibility into milestones, blockers, risks, and dependencies across Product and Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain sprint and milestone dashboards, calendars, trackers, and transition checklists
- Create user story stubs, tasks, and bugs in partnership with leads and Product Managers
- Scrub backlogs, identify stale work, and ensure work items have clear owners, status, and next steps
- Facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning, triage, office hours, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies either live or asynchronously
- Prepare meeting invitations, agendas, pre-reads, and status questions to support effective team execution
- Maintain action logs, reminders, workflows, and follow-up activities for blocked or at-risk work
- Own feature delivery schedules and work item assignments while tracking team velocity and capacity
- Identify, track, and escalate risks, dependencies, blockers, and critical-path issues
- Represent features and workstreams in release forums with engineering leads and Product Managers
- Review release queries, clear stale work, update fields, and confirm next actions with feature owners
- Consolidate changelog review feedback, track open items, and coordinate follow-up
- Partner with QA to coordinate validation and test plans, reproduction efforts, regression tracking, and release dependencies
- Track readiness signals, unresolved bugs, validation dependencies, partner commitments, and technical initiatives across teams
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and escalate decisions when needed to keep delivery on track
Skills
- 1. **Technical Program Management / Producer experience — 2+ years** managing engineering, product, technical programs, or production workflows, with experience coordinating cross-functional teams and driving execution
- 2. **Agile / Scrum — Strong working knowledge of Agile or Scrum frameworks**, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog management, team velocity, capacity planning, and milestone delivery
- 3. **ADO, Jira, or Confluence — Deep familiarity using project and documentation tools** to create and maintain work items, manage backlogs, track tasks and bugs, document pipelines, and maintain sprint and milestone visibility
- 4. **Cross-Functional Project Coordination** — Experience managing dependencies, blockers, risks, release activities, QA validation, testing plans, and stakeholder follow-up across engineering and product teams
- * Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, product development, or production; equivalent experience may be considered
- * Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies and experience applying them to software or engineering teams
- * Deep familiarity with ADO, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools for task management, sprint planning, backlog management, and technical documentation
- * Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
- * Experience coordinating engineering, QA, testing, release, or software development workflows
- * Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- * Ability to bridge communication between programmers, creative teams, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and executive stakeholders
- * Ability to adapt quickly, manage changing priorities, and remain effective in an evolving environment
- * Ability to motivate cross-functional teams and help resolve conflicts or remove blockers under tight deadlines
- **Location:** 100% Remote – Must work PST hours
- * All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for sponsorship
- * 4+ years of relevant experience is preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and life)
- Employer-matched 401K plan
- Paid Time Off
- Flexible Paid Holiday Benefit
- 100% Remote – Must work PST hours
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