Lead Tech Project Mgr

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* Job Summary:

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* The Lead Technical Project Manager is responsible for delivering complex software development projects working with teams across multiple disciplines in a geographically dispersed organization, including working with vendors. The Lead Technical Project Manager will concurrently manage multiple medium to large digital projects across web and mobile applications, and/or one or more specific tracks within much larger scale programs, with oversight from a Program Manager.

The Technical Project Manager ensures on-time and on-schedule delivery for their projects working closely with Product, Technology, and Design.

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* What You Will Do:

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* Project Estimation

+ Facilitate scope definition, and high-level planning, discovery, and estimation workshops for projects with cross-functional teams

+ Quantify cost factors to deliver project deliverables including resources, project oversight, objective risk and related contingency

+ Document key assumptions and dependencies established through estimation activities

+ Prepare and present high-level plan with estimates for executives and cross-functional leaders based on estimate outcomes

Project Planning

+ Create project schedule and communication plans

+ Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks

+ Establish project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans

+ Develop the project plan and schedule with cross discipline functional leads

+ Ensure necessary steps and dependencies to deliver projects and components are established

+ Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget

+ Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads

Project Delivery

+ Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks of large programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered on-time and on-budget

+ Manage resource assignment, budget, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change control

+ Work with cross discipline team members to validate project assumptions and review project plans with leadership

+ Ensure proper documentation of scope of work with help from cross discipline functional leads

+ Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors and other key functional delivery teams for the project (when appropriate)

+ Communicate regular updates to project and executive leadership team on delivery progress, plan updates and budget spend and forecast, including status report updates, financial/budget/variance reports, and other reporting as required

+ Monitor adherence to schedule and milestone commitments

+ Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation

+ Prevent scope creep, record causes of change, and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget, as well as forecasts, are approved and communicated in a timely manner

+ Use metrics, including burn-down charts, to drive performance, efficiency and forecast improvements

+ Ensure proper project closure including retro actives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting

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* Qualifications:

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* + Minimum of 7 years of related work experience.

+ Strong project leader with experience in leading large, multidisciplinary digital teams (preferably websites, mobile web, and apps)

+ Agile delivery experience

+ Mobile application (iOS, Android) delivery experience

+ Experience in a matrixed responsibility organization working with multiple Product Managers per effort

+ Strong experience facilitating the gathering and development of requirements for complex solutions

+ Possesses significant practical experience in the basics of project management (estimation, project planning, resource planning, issue management, risk management, change management, communication planning).

+ Experienced in multiple full lifecycle software deliveries from business development to final software acceptance

+ Led teams with multiple discipline represented (including product management/strategy, technology, design, SEO, and analytics)

+ Proven accomplishment as a driver of multiple projects running concurrently

+ Proven track record managing individual project budgets and budget roll-up of multiple projects

+ Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities

+ Able to confidently lead teams to a successful delivery approach

+ Able to work both collaboratively and independently while maintaining a high level of productivity

+ Able to work under tight timetables and high pressure situations

+ Thrive in a fast-paced environment and able to juggle, shift gears, and maintain a sense of humor; deliver under extreme deadlines and intense business environment

+ Must possess excellent business communication, writing, and interpersonal skills

+ Proactive and solution-oriented when managing issues

+ Comfortable when communicating with executive level (Directors, VPs) in presentations, working sessions, and 1-on-1…