Age of Learning is seeking an experienced Producer to support the development and delivery of engaging, high-quality learning games and educational products at Age of Learning. In this role, you will drive planning, execution, and cross-functional alignment across Agile teams—ensuring that teams are organized, unblocked, and focused on delivering meaningful, child-centered experiences. This position is strategic and managerial, overseeing all phases: development, pre-production, production, post-production, and release.
You will act as a central coordinator and facilitator, helping teams navigate complexity, manage dependencies, and deliver on time without sacrificing quality, learning outcomes, or team health.
This role ensures that teams can deliver high-quality, engaging learning experiences efficiently and consistently—by bringing clarity, structure, and alignment to complex, collaborative work.
Our environment is fast paced, so flexibility is a must. The position requires successfully interfacing with a variety of internal and external design, creative, engineering and QA personnel, adjusting to production and team challenges that arise, and finding creative solutions that keep projects on track with a firm, but friendly “can-do” attitude.
Responsibilities:
Planning & Execution
• Drive day-to-day execution across one or more cross-functional Agile teams.
• Maintain project plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Partner with discipline team managers to define scope, priorities, and milestones.
• Ensure work is well-defined, estimated, and tracked through completion.
Agile Facilitation
• Facilitate/run team ceremonies including standups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, grooming.
• Ensure teams are following Agile best practices and continuously improving.
• Help break down work into manageable increments and maintain a healthy backlog.
• Track team velocity and delivery predictability.
Cross-Functional Coordination
• Coordinate with engineering, game design, UX, art, animation, QA, curriculum.
• Manage dependencies, identify risks early, and drive resolution.
• Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on goals, scope, timelines, and expectations.
• Act as a communication hub across teams and disciplines.
Communication & Transparency
• Communicate project status, risks, and changes clearly to leadership.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation, dashboards, and reporting.
• Ensure decisions, priorities, and trade-offs are visible and understood.
• Facilitate alignment when priorities or requirements shift.
Risk Management & Problem Solving
• Identify risks, blockers, and inefficiencies early and proactively address them.
• Act as a mediator to resolve conflicts and unblock teams.
• Help teams navigate trade-offs between scope, timeline, quality, and learning goals.
• Escalate issues appropriately while driving solutions at team level.
Quality & Delivery Support
• Partner with QA and team leads to ensure quality is built into the development process.
• Support release planning, validation, and delivery readiness.
• Help teams balance speed and quality in a sustainable way.
Continuous Improvement
• Drive process improvements across teams and workflows.
• Lead retrospectives and ensure actionable follow-ups.
• Identify opportunities to improve team efficiency, communication, and collaboration.
• Support a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in production, project management, or program management in games, software, or interactive products.
• Bilingual English and Spanish (verbal and written) in a business setting.
• Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders effectively.
• A proven track record of shipping web & mobile software products.
• Knowledge of software production tools like Jira/Confluence, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint.
• A clear understanding of game project life cycles from start to finish.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in edtech, children’s products, learning and video games.
• Familiarity with live-service or content-driven products.
• Experience working with distributed or multidisciplinary teams.
• Passion for creating impactful learning experiences for children.
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams while building software (games or apps) that are ideally consumer-facing and data-driven.
• Proactive problem-solving skills and adaptability to shifting project needs.
• Knowledge and/or experience with other Agile frameworks.
• Agile or PMP Certification is a plus.
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What We Do
Age of Learning is a leading education technology innovator based in Glendale, California, with a talented team of 500+ individuals comprised of nationally renowned educators, curriculum experts, designers, animators, engineers, and more. We develop engaging, effective digital learning technology and content to help children build a strong foundation for academic success. Our flagship product, ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, is a comprehensive curriculum and the #1 brand in kids’ education. To date, more than 30 million children worldwide have completed over 6.8 billion Learning Activities on ABCmouse. In 2019, Age of Learning launched Adventure Academy, the first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game designed specifically to help elementary- and middle-school-aged children learn. It features thousands of engaging Learning Activities—including games, books, original animated and live action series, and more—in a fun and safe virtual world. And in 2021, we launched My Math Academy, a groundbreaking personalized, adaptive digital learning system (available for schools) that individualizes math instruction for every child through AI-driven technology. Other Age of Learning programs include immersive English language learning products for children in China and Japan and ReadingIQ, a digital library and literacy platform. We are committed to helping all children succeed. Through the Age of Learning Foundation, we make our research-proven educational products available at no cost to millions of children in need through schools, libraries, Head Start programs, community centers, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Our work has served communities on 5 continents and continues to grow today. As we expand our global reach and increase the educational impact of our programs, we’re looking for passionate, ambitious, and collaborative leaders to become a part of our growing team.
