Technical Project Manager

Company: The Execu|Search Group
Location: Littleton
Posted on: November 24, 2020

Job Description:

Must have VOD, OTT, or linear video playback experience Terms Long-term contract Location Remote for Covid-19. Eventually, Centennial, CO. Job Description Essential Responsibilities Technical project management to organize project intake, prioritization, assignments and completion. Build an effective working partnership with engineers to lead team to success. Frequent communication with project stakeholders and working groups to ensure everyone is aware of scope, action items, and project progress and changes. Partner with colleague program, project and product managers within the organization establish strong communications and relationships with counterparts and stakeholders, and vendors when needed. Implement sprint approach to organizing project requests and institute regular meetings to track engineerproject progress, clarify requirements, assign projects, manage resources, and track completion and report team metrics. Manage team capacity, deliverables and releases in JIRA through implementation of Kanban project management. Own team metrics and submit Sprint, Monthly and Quarterly team performance metrics. Effectively mitigate risks, track and resolve dependencies, and utilize resources to remove impediments to the team. Demonstrate leadership skills in the areas of team building, conflict resolution, time management, stakeholder management and customer service. Effectively manage time and prioritize tasks and work streams to achieve department and business goals. Contribute to defining processes, documentation, and discipline for the Portfolio Management team. Follow company internal guidelines and expectations. QualificationsRequirements Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or media technology andor 5-7 years of equivalent experience. 5 years of Technical Project Management in large scale enterprise environments and technical project management for media andor television or similar IT industry. Solid understanding of media engineering practices, and project management methodologies. Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills able to communicate effectively with customers, executives and teams in high-pressure situations. Desired Characteristics Experience in US Digital Media preferred. Experience in video supply chain, infrastructure, delivery systems and playback preferred. Exceptional technical, analytical, organizational, and research skills. Ability to lead and present program information in face-to-face presentations to varied audiences including executive management. Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence and creating project plans and timelines. Strong team-building, vendor, and customer relations skills. Be analytical and process-oriented and able to apply structure to complex problems.

Keywords: The Execu|Search Group, Littleton , Technical Project Manager, Other , Littleton, Colorado