Technical Project Manager - TechDigital
Princeton, NJ
About the Job
Job description ::
A Technical Project Manager (TPM) plays a critical role in helping drive company strategy, aligning teams, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering on multiple complex projects for the company. Given the rapid expansion of companies in the digital space, it has become imperative for companies, especially ones with a large digital footprint, to hire TPMs.
Roles and Responsibilities
A Technical Project Manager (TPM) plays a critical role in helping drive company strategy, aligning teams, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering on multiple complex projects for the company. Given the rapid expansion of companies in the digital space, it has become imperative for companies, especially ones with a large digital footprint, to hire TPMs.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces.
- Develop functional specifications, then drive the delivery in a successful and timely manner.
- Drive program schedules from design to launch, communicate to stakeholders and senior leaders.
- Gain a deep technical understanding of our products and be able to drive the technical direction of the team, working with frontend and back-end technologies.
- Thrive and succeed in an innovative environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or conflicting priorities.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Lead interactions with cross functional teams consisting of UX designers, Engineers, Product Managers and executive leadership.
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules with total 10+ year of experience.
- 4+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
- 3+ years of technical program management experience.
- Experience in AWS and/or cloud computing.
- Extensive knowledge of modern virtualization technologies (5+ years - VMware knowledge is a must).
- Hands-on networking experience and a strong foundational knowledge of networking models including VLAN's, WAN, routing, bridging, etc
- Experience to troubleshoot technical related issues (performance and incident management).
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or another relevant field
- Experience with contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions related to a suite of products/programs.
- Experience with agile or other program management methodologies.
- Demonstrated solid judgment and effective communication skills.
Source : TechDigital