Technical Program Manager

Technical Program ManagerDuration: 12 monthsLocation: New York, NYPosition Summary:Multi-disciplinary teamwork. The Technical Program Manager for Product Development works with the product and technology teams focused on the delivery pipeline. Plays a key role in ensuring a seamless delivery of an end-to-end flow of functionality and data through a particular system (or systems), and tools.Duties and Responsibilities:

• Mastering, owning and managing (SME) one or more Platforms and Product offerings and interdependencies across those entities.
• Collaborate and closely communicate with product, operations, engineering, quality engineering, and other interdepartmental resources to successfully drive projects to completion with the highest level of quality
• Manage clear communication of progress/status with project stakeholders
• Adapt to changing conditions and modify project execution plan as appropriate while managing multiple projects concurrently
• Prepare and present presentations and communications to leadership
• Proactively highlight and resolve risks and issues and clearly communicate those risks to stakeholders
• Identify blockers and facilitate the removal of those blockers
• Absorb project status from engineering stand-up and sprint planning meetings without adding additional meeting burden

• Thorough knowledge of MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project, and Jira / Confluence
• Required: Previous technical experience (previous software development preferred but open to other technical experience as well)

• A Bachelor's Degree with at least 3 - 5 years of experience managing cross-functional projects, ideally for media or content-rich products or services
• An ability to distill complex issues into solvable and actionable tasks
• Extensive experience with SDLC methodologies
• Extensive experience in Project Management Methodologies and Frameworks
• An ability to be adaptable and flexible without being dogmatic when the situation calls for it
• A passion for delivering results in a fast pace, change oriented environment
• Strong project planning skills with an eye for details
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to facilitate parties working collaboratively and efficiently.
• Working experience with JIRA/Confluence and Google Apps, including JQL queries.
• Experience working in multi-platform environments and environments with multiple cross platform teams
• Experience creating and reporting dashboards and metrics
• An innate problem solver with the ability to thrive under pressure
• Well-versed in Agile/Scrum Principles with at least 2-3 years of experience running multiple scrum teams
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, project management best practices, and scrum best practices
• Deep passion for streaming media
• Working knowledge in release planning and management
• Experience in risk reporting, management and mitigation
• Minimum of 10% - 25% travel required (Pending COVID-19 restrictions)
• Ability to manage virtual teams spanning across multiple time zones required
• Ability to gain the respect of Engineers, Product Managers and Business Partners
• Required certifications: Scrum Master Certification (such as CSM or PSM)
• Preferred certifications: PMP and any other relevant certifications

• Experience working with ad-based, digital streaming technologies and providing oversight for medium-to-large product launches
• Inherent ability to create synergy across multiple teams