Senior Technical Program Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE:

" Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs

" Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies

" Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution

" Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership

" Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables

" Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan

" Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets

" Perform capacity planning for teams

" Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams

" Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies

" Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate

" Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership

" Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management

" Effortlessly sift through "noise and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results

" Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs

" Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable

" May manage smaller teams of professional employees related to area of focus or expertise

Preferred Qualifications " 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization

" Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams

" Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile

" 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)

" BA/BS or equivalent experience required

Required Education BS or equivalent experience

Preferred Education

Additional Information There are going to be multiple interviews for this rol. 4-5 due to the level of Managmenet interaction requited. Expect to be on site 4 days a week

- Need to be able to piece together all the elements of the program- understand the elements the lements and packeage them into a collectio of work

Put everything together and the big picture -

Strong Communication skills with executive - SVP- interaction- working with revenue generating ads- elevator pitch-

alot of software development experience- media is preferred - burbank is preffered

REQUIREMENTS

This is a contractor position within the: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization, supporting our Ad Platforms technology group. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of highly complex programs that may span several areas of Ad Platforms, or may cut across the department and other DEE Technology groups. They may also assist with the triage of other programs to help form recommendations to senior leadership.

This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.

There are going to be multiple interviews for this rol. 4-5 due to the level of Managmenet interaction requited. Expect to be on site 4 days a week

- Need to be able to piece together all the elements of the program- understand the elements the lements and packeage them into a collectio of work

Put everything to gether and the big picture -

Strong Communication skills with executive - SVP- interaction- working with revenue generating ads- elevator pitch-

alot of software development experience- media is preferred - burbank is preffered