About the role

  • Accountable for driving execution and delivery of a set of software development deliverables from start to finish.
  • Define, optimize, and manage Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
  • Leverage experience with Agile and Scrum to lead teams to successful delivery.
  • Lead delivery teams through the identification and management of risks and the resolution of issues, and escalating to management as appropriate.
  • Facilitate team ceremonies.
  • Facilitate meetings/workshops with groups of people beyond the immediate delivery team.
  • Facilitate the team through the resolution of complex issues.
  • Drive workshop/meeting to conclusion and/or actionable outcome.
  • Ensure group participation.
  • Identify scope of inputs and outputs as dependencies for technical teams, resolve gaps and create program milestones that ensure work is sequenced across teams.
  • Identify risks; drive resolutions and communicate prioritized mitigation plans to stakeholders.
  • Monitor & adjust plans to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring programs are progressing to meet business goals.
  • Monitor and report on team metrics around delivery.
  • Able to quickly solve complex problems in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction.
  • Provide frequent and transparent communication to the business and technical senior management, delivery teams and stakeholders regarding initiative health, issues, and risks.
  • Demonstrate solid proficiency of technical project/program domain and able to confidently discuss with project team, partner teams, and stakeholders.
  • Clearly articulate technical risks without the aid of engineering support.
  • Analyze and facilitate decisions around technical challenges with some direction.
  • Effectively communicates complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Executives.
  • Interacts with internal and external peers, initiative stakeholders, and managers to exchange complex information.
  • Ability to influence key decision-makers / stakeholders towards new business processes and technical solutions that best serve the Company.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
  • Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
  • Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
  • Typically has 5 or more years of progressively complex related experience as a Scrum Lead, with hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum developing software applications in a highly-technical domain
  • Typically has 5 or more years of experience managing formal application software development projects
  • Formal project management certifications
  • Experience working in a media technology environment
  • Advertising technology domain knowledge, or demonstrated aptitude for learning a technology-based engineering domain
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience required

Benefits

  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job title

Senior Technical Program Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$129,300 - $173,300 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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