Senior Technical Program Manager with Top Mass Media & Entertainment Company!

Senior Technical Program Manager

Location: Bristol, CT (3-4 days per week on-site with Fridays remote)

Contract Duration: 24 months

Pay rate: up to $89.50/HR

2 openings available

Summary: This is a contractor position within the Technology: Business Operations - Global
Program Management organization. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of highly complex programs that may span several areas of Tech. They may also assist with the triage of other programs to help form recommendations to senior leadership. This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.

***MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH AIRTABLE

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
-Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role % of Time
Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs
Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies
Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership
Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables
Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan

• Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
  Perform capacity planning for teams
  Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
  Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies
  Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
  Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership
  Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management
  Effortlessly sift through noise and facilitate discussions and activities

Basic Qualifications
8 years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile
Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
BA/BS or equivalent experience required

Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in a media technology environment
Ad tech domain knowledge, or demonstrated aptitude for learning a technology-based engineering domain
Formal project management certifications