Lead Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of a set of software development deliverables from start to finish.
• Define, optimize, and manage Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Leverage experience with Agile and Scrum to lead teams to successful delivery.
• Lead delivery teams through the identification and management of risks and the resolution of issues, and escalating to management as appropriate.
• Facilitate team ceremonies.
• Facilitate meetings/workshops with groups of people beyond the immediate delivery team.
• Facilitate the team through the resolution of complex issues.
• Drive workshop/meeting to conclusion and/or actionable outcome.
• Ensure group participation.
• Identify scope of inputs and outputs as dependencies for technical teams, resolve gaps and create program milestones that ensure work is sequenced across teams.
• Identify risks; drive resolutions and communicate prioritized mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Monitor and adjust plans to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring programs are progressing to meet business goals.
• Monitor and report on team metrics around delivery.
• Able to quickly solve complex problems in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction.
• Provide frequent and transparent communication to the business and technical senior management, delivery teams and stakeholders regarding initiative health, issues, and risks.
• Demonstrate solid proficiency of technical project/program domain and be able to confidently discuss with project team, partner teams, and stakeholders.
• Clearly articulate technical risks without the aid of engineering support.
• Analyze and facilitate decisions around technical challenges with some direction.
• Effectively communicate complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Executives.
• Interact with internal and external peers, initiative stakeholders, and managers to exchange complex information.
• Ability to influence key decision-makers and stakeholders towards new business processes and technical solutions that best serve the company.

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams.
• Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem‑solving skills.
• Superb written and verbal communication, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership).
• Typically has 5 or more years of progressively complex related experience as a Scrum Lead, with hands‑on experience with Agile/Scrum developing software applications in a highly‑technical domain.
• Typically has 5 or more years of experience managing formal application software development projects.
• Formal project management certifications.
• Experience working in a media technology environment.
• Advertising technology domain knowledge, or demonstrated aptitude for learning a technology‑based engineering domain.