Top Mass Media & Entertainment Company

Location: New York, NY / East coast fully remote (This position can be fully remote working east coast hours or hybrid in the NYC office)

Contract duration: 10 months

Rate: up to $100/HR
Summary: This role sits on a fast-paced team where you will have influence over key product/front-end development decision making, ability to collaborate to build and define team processes, and a front-row seat to delivering on exciting Android experiential, playback, and platform product launches around the world to engage and delight their subscribers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and/or oversee the delivery of projects by collaborating with Android
  engineering teams, product management and developing detailed project plans from development to deployment
• Facilitate technical meetings; follow technical discussions in order to successfully capture outcomes and see them through to completion
• Track team progress against committed deliverables and work with the team to
  identify risks, dependencies, and solutions to ensure timely and successful delivery
• Work with the development team to create delivery timelines of feature sets for
  projects, and partner across various tracks and business leaders to sequence the work based on priorities
• Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies, prioritize the work to avoid impediments, identify single points of failure for discussion and decision
• Attend project meetings and communicate program progress against defined
  milestones and delivery risks to various levels of executive leadership.
• Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
• Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
• Ruthless prioritization and ability to handle multiple team requests and balance that against competing priorities and committed work
• Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management
• Effortlessly sift through noise and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results

Skills:

• Experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
• Proven experience in working in complex yet ambiguous environments managing multiple stakeholders
• Strong ability to articulate complex processes
• Demonstrated ability with Agile project management
• Proactive desire to strive for personal best alongside advocating for continual
  improvement, empowerment, and growing transparency
• Technical knowledge of architecture and development practices
• Experience in leading teams through improvement through process re-engineering
• Excellent people skills, including the ability to influence various audience and various levels
• Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must understand the impact of injecting requests to the team's backlog
• Tools expert including Atlassian Suite and desktop tools: Airtable, Google suite