Senior Technical Program Manager

We are hiring a Freelance Senior Technical Program Manager to join a top entertainment company in NYC. This position will run for 11 months with potential to extend and will be based in their NYC office on a hybrid schedule.
Responsibilities:

• Provide technical program management support to the engineering teams and assist where needed in overall program coordination throughout the User Foundations organization.
• Manage technical teams, serve in scrum ceremonies, and provide release support as needed.
• Lead planning meetings, scrum ceremonies and cross functional coordination.
• Proactively work with product management and other project stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, define project scope and objectives, understand requirements, and effectively communicate requirements to engineering teams to drive projects forward.
• Work with engineering teams and leadership to establish processes that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
• Manage program reporting for engineering efforts.
• Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks to internal and external partners.
• Ensure Jira hygiene for all initiatives including the recording and tagging of tickets to the appropriate business initiatives and releases.
• Create and maintain Jira reports, dashboards, burndowns, and track velocity.
• Demonstrate technical adeptness to understand and effectively converse in the User Foundations domain.
• Establish and cultivate strong relationships with all stakeholders and leverage these to develop an understanding of their short-term and long-term goals and priorities to ensure organizational alignment.
• Manage schedules and capacity planning to ensure the team can deliver within project scope and duration alongside other existing priorities.

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree in a related field
• 5+ years of Technical Program Management experience in the software industry.
• Experience working with technical scrum teams, software development lifecycle delivery, and release management particularly with back-end services teams.
• Experience working with product and design and other stakeholders to understand requirements, prioritize initiatives, and engage with engineering teams to drive projects forward.
• Have in-depth experience executing Agile and other software development methodologies.
• Have mastered industry-standard project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence.
• Excel at working with project stakeholders to define project scope and objectives, and you are able to effectively communicate requirements to development teams.
• Excel in leading effective meetings, planning, documenting decisions and follow up.
• Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and communicate project risks to internal and external partners.
• Display initiative, take a proactive approach, and are able to start the conversation and guide other program leads in process development. Consistently evaluating processes and seeking for ways to improve at every iteration.
• Have developed essential soft skills including meeting leadership, communication, teamwork, collaboration, flexibility, problem solving, critical thinking, & conflict resolution.
• Learn quickly and enthusiastically, particularly about technical systems and issues.

If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today.

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