Producer (OnSite - Guadalajara)

Company Overview:Age of Learning®is the leading developer of engaging and effective Pre-K through 5th grade learning resources that help children build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning. The company’s research-based curriculum, developed by education experts, includes the award-winningABCmouse.com®Early Learning Academy, as well as the adaptive, personalized school solutions,My Math Academy®,My Reading Academy®, andMy Reading Academy Español. Having served over 50 million children worldwide, Age of Learning is a global leader in efforts to advance equity, access, and opportunity for all children. 

Summary:

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.

An Equal Opportunity EmployerAge of Learning, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender expression, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, domestic partner status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.