Technical Project Manager

Project Role: Technical Project Manager (Media background is needed)

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Duration: Long term

Job type: W2 contract

OVERVIEW

We’re looking for a TPM to support delivery of new data infrastructure projects across a diverse ecosystem of business applications, service platforms, and enterprise tools who can bridge technical expertise and work to understand business needs to deliver clear, actionable insights and facilitate the on-time delivery of projects.

The mission is to establish a unified data taxonomy, streamline data flow across our systems, empowering stakeholders with reliable reporting, analytics to inform strategic decisions and contextual machine learning opportunities in a fast-moving environment across our stakeholders within Apple’s Services teams.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The technical project manager will support the ongoing projects in the following areas:

Data Infrastructure & Warehousing

- Drive the development and optimization our data storage, orchestration and warehousing in collaboration with Client’s AiDP & SAP teams

- Collaborate with data engineers that build and maintain robust pipelines, connecting platforms such as Airtable, Aspera, Jira, and Zendesk

- Partner with data taxonomist who ensure data is properly normalized, deduplicated and accessible for analytics and compliance

Business Intelligence & Analytics

- Deliver clean, reliable dashboards and ad hoc reports for finance, production, legal, operations, and other internal teams

- Enable use cases that help the Product team translate raw data into narratives that support operational planning, strategic forecasting and risk analysis in collaboration with the AIML Product & Engineering teams internally

- Support the development of self-serve reporting capabilities using tools like Tableau, Airtable & Datahaiku

Cross-Functional Partnership

- Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements, define KPIs, and validate data needs

- Provide expertise on how best to leverage data across business operations and vendor-facing systems

REQUIREMENTS

- 10 years of experience in data architecture, analytics, or business intelligence, with 8 years in media, entertainment, or creative industries

- Expertise in data taxonomies and documentation for business operations

- Strong command of SQL and experience working with cloud-based data platforms

- Demonstrated success integrating third-party business platforms (e.g., Airtable) into centralized data environments

- Experience developing reports and dashboards with tools like Tableau, Business Objects, Datahaiku or HAWK

- Ability to thrive independently in a cross-functional, project-based environment

- Strong communication skills and a consultative, solutions-oriented mindset

PREFFERED EXPERIENCE

- Familiarity with APIs, data integration tools and automation workflows

- Prior experience with data compliance or governance frameworks

- Prior experience vetting reporting requirements and recommending technical solutions to address business needs

- Exposure to project management and service facilitation workflows in studio production, music label or other entertainment