Technical Program Manager (5-10 yrs)

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Organize and coordinate activities across teams resulting in quality product releases.

- Create project plans and drive delivery to milestones and requirements.

- Take end-to-end bottom-line responsibility for a Project.

- Work closely with product managers to understand product vision, product priorities, and roadmap, and help in estimating the scope.

- Run scrum meetings, track milestones, and drive releases to on-time delivery.

- Project management - prioritization, planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management, and tracking of external commitments.

- Identify bottlenecks, and risks and coordinate discussions with cross-functional teams to review project deliverables.

- Manage status and reporting to provide project clarity to team members and management.

Requirements :

- 5+ years of Project management experience.

- Experience in agile and scrum practices.

- Excellent experience in managing project dashboards, the status of completion goals, backlog items, and tracking project metrics.

- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Good experience in Jira workflow management.

- Proven success working with all levels of management.

- Strong presentation skills.

Good to have skills :

- Good hands-on technical expertise.

- Ability to understand and articulate complex technologies.

- Experience in managing projects that use big data or NoSQL systems.

Professional attributes :

- Excellent verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.

- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

- Ability to communicate effectively with and influence team members and external groups.

- Experience working as part of globally distributed teams.

- Motivation and ability to be productive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

- A self-starter, who loves to take on hard problems, loves solving service scalability problems, enjoys breaking things, and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies and working in a startup environment.