As part of the highly respected Technical Program Management team, you will drive both the big picture and the details so that the team can deliver complex cross-functional projects, often under tight deadlines.
Responsibilities:
- Define functional requirements of products, programs and features
- Lead daily engineering team stand-ups
- Own & drive project schedules across multiple software teams
- Refine processes for effective delivery of the above
- Understand technical implementation and ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be highly effective.
- Develop broad domain and technical knowledge
- Clearly communicate project status and anticipate bottlenecks
- Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress
- Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities
- Proactively drive results
Key skills required
- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical architecture, designs, challenges and risks in development and production
- A bias towards action
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and exceptional emotional intelligence.
- Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions through relationships
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, without losing sight of highest priority items
- Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
- Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
- Strong critical thinking capabilities necessary
Ideal background:
- Computer Science or other engineering degree
- Experienced at working with and shipping great products
- Experience at a high paced, rapidly growing, scrappy tech startup
- A passion for leading edge technology
- Humor