IT Project Manager

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world's largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

Via's IT team is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead and manage complex enterprise technology initiatives from project inception through implementation and operational transition.

This role will manage a diverse portfolio of business applications, infrastructure, cloud, CRM, analytics, integration, platform modernization, and process improvement initiatives. The IT Project Manager will be responsible for project planning and execution, requirements analysis, stakeholder communication, resource coordination, budget and vendor management, risk management, governance, and deployment readiness.

The successful candidate will thrive in a matrix environment and work closely with business systems analysts, product owners, subject matter experts, developers, infrastructure and security teams, external vendors, centralized PMO teams, and business stakeholders.

Reporting to the Head of Via IT, this role will partner closely with cross-functional teams including Program Management(Patent Pool), Royalty Services, Finance, Accounting, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and internal/external audit teams.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology initiatives, including business system implementations, upgrades, cloud and infrastructure projects, analytics modernization, integrations, platform modernization, and business process improvements.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, timelines, resource requirements, and implementation roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans and coordinate execution across business, development, QA, architecture, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.
• Monitor project progress against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and delivery commitments.
• Adapt project delivery approaches based on appropriate PMLC methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid models, and provide guidance to project teams.
• Coordinate UAT planning, readiness reviews, deployment planning, go-live activities, and transition to production operations.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, core team meetings, steering committees, sprint ceremonies, and executive reviews as appropriate.

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, refine, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clear specifications and application functionality in partnership with business analysts, developers, architects, and vendors.
• Facilitate discussions across stakeholders to resolve competing priorities and arrive at practical, mutually acceptable solutions.
• Work closely with cross-functional business teams to support requirements for homegrown .NET applications, SFDC/SAP and other enterprise business systems, as needed.
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize application defects, enhancements, and project requirements.
• Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, external vendors, centralized technology teams, and executive leadership.
• Provide clear and timely project status reporting, including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and delivery forecasts.

• Proactively identify project…