Senior Technical Producer

Steamroller Technologies is seeking a Senior Technical Producer to lead the delivery of technically complex interactive projects. This role involves owning project timelines, budgets, and execution, working closely with creative and technical leadership. The producer will ensure ambitious ideas are delivered predictably and sustainably, making high-level trade-off decisions and managing cross-disciplinary teams.

Must Have

• Own and maintain project schedules and budgets from kickoff through delivery
• Define milestones, dependencies, and resourcing plans
• Track progress, forecast risk, and manage change
• Lead scope, schedule, and cost trade-off conversations
• Partner with senior creative and technical leadership to align delivery plans
• Participate in decisions where vision, technical approach, and delivery constraints intersect
• Ensure changes in direction are reflected in updated schedules and budgets
• Represent production priorities with authority and good judgment
• Maintain sufficient technical understanding to identify integration, performance, and schedule risk
• Ask informed questions of engineering and technical art teams
• Surface assumptions, unknowns, and dependencies early
• Lead planning, estimation, and tracking for multi-disciplinary teams
• Run production rituals that support focus, accountability, and momentum
• Maintain production tooling with an emphasis on clarity and signal
• Remove friction so teams can focus on execution
• Own delivery expectations with internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate progress, risk, and changes clearly and proactively
• Ensure commitments are made deliberately and honored
• 7+ years of experience producing technically complex projects
• Proven ownership of schedules and budgets on multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience working with senior creative and technical leaders as peers
• Technical literacy sufficient to understand system-level discussions and their delivery impact
• Strong judgment in balancing ambition, risk, and feasibility

Good to Have

• Experience with real-time engines (Unity, Unreal, or equivalent)
• Experience with experiential, hardware-integrated, or location-based projects

Who We Are

Steamroller Technologies breathes life into stories, characters, and experiences in visual, physical, and virtual spaces. From high-end theme park attractions and digital interactives to mixed-reality prototyping, we partner with clients to build what’s never been built before. We are a team of problem solvers, creators, and innovators who believe in "Play" and pushing the boundaries of technology.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Technical Producer to lead the delivery of technically complex interactive projects. This role is accountable for project timeline, budget, and execution, working in close partnership with senior creative and technical leadership to ensure ambitious ideas are delivered predictably and sustainably. The ideal candidate brings strong production judgment, technical fluency, and the confidence to participate as a peer in high-level trade-off decisions that shape the final product.

Responsibilities

Timeline & Budget Ownership

• Own and maintain project schedules and budgets from kickoff through delivery
• Define milestones, dependencies, and resourcing plans that reflect real technical complexity
• Track progress, forecast risk, and manage change with clarity and intent
• Lead scope, schedule, and cost trade-off conversations to keep projects on track

Cross-Disciplinary Leadership

• Partner with senior creative and technical leadership to align delivery plans with project goals
• Participate in decisions where vision, technical approach, and delivery constraints intersect
• Ensure changes in direction are reflected in updated schedules and budgets
• Represent production priorities with authority and good judgment

Technical Fluency & Risk Management

• Maintain sufficient technical understanding to identify integration, performance, and schedule risk
• Ask informed questions of engineering and technical art teams
• Surface assumptions, unknowns, and dependencies early

Team & Process Leadership

• Lead planning, estimation, and tracking for multi-disciplinary teams
• Run production rituals that support focus, accountability, and momentum
• Maintain production tooling with an emphasis on clarity and signal
• Remove friction so teams can focus on execution

Stakeholder & Client Communication

• Own delivery expectations with internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate progress, risk, and changes clearly and proactively
• Ensure commitments are made deliberately and honored

Candidate Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience producing technically complex projects
• Proven ownership of schedules and budgets on multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience working with senior creative and technical leaders as peers
• Technical literacy sufficient to understand system-level discussions and their delivery impact
• Strong judgment in balancing ambition, risk, and feasibility
• Experience with real-time engines (Unity, Unreal, or equivalent) is preferred
• Experience with experiential, hardware-integrated, or location-based projects is preferred