Location: New York, NY
URL: http://animoto.com
Animoto is looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead the delivery process - from planning through deployment - of our many web-based, technical, product-related initiatives. The Technical Program Manager will work closely with all facets of the company, from technical and creative to marketing and business. Together with various team leaders, the Technical Program Manager will drive the process by which initiatives are scoped, spec'ed, scheduled, executed, tested and released, while ensuring quality and minimizing risks.
Animoto has seen great success with its existing product releases, and this coming year will prove to be our most exciting year yet in terms of bringing great new innovations to market. The Technical Program Manager will be at the center of the action here at Animoto and will potentially lead the delivery of everything from core Animoto.com products to our social network apps, iPhone apps, marketing initiatives, business development related offerings, and video creation platform tools.
The successful candidate will be an experienced Technical Program Manager with a strong track record of shipping online products/services on schedule and a proven ability to partner across various departments to accomplish business, design, and engineering goals. We need someone with strong technical skills and demonstrated experience in understanding everything from web architectures to design/UI issues. Building positive and productive relationships will be a requisite, and facilitating the decision-making process in an efficient, thoughtful, and thorough manner will be critical.
As a small but fast-growing company, the various practices and processes here are continually evolving to fit the ever-changing needs, priorities, and size of the company. The Technical Program Manager will have the opportunity to leverage his/her experience to help develop the processes at Animoto.
This role demands interacting with team leaders across the company, and we'll be depending on this person to make everyone's life easier. As a result, you must be highly-motivated, persistent, patient, and even-keeled. Co-workers describe you pragmatic, resourceful, 100% dependable, and someone who commands a high-level of respect.
Responsibilities:
* Manage the schedule and scope of multiple simultaneous initiatives, ensuring quality and minimizing risk.
* Identify and track key metrics critical to project success.
* Track and effectively communicate project issues, delays and risks so that stakeholders are not surprised.
* Create and maintain product specs.
* Help resolve critical cross-group technical or project issues as they impact the release plans.
* Define and execute on the release strategy and commit to improving the process with each iteration.
* Build effective relationships with team leads across all departments.
Requirements:
* Demonstrated ability to lead in an agile engineering environment
* Ability to deal with ambiguity and to drive people at all levels towards communicated goals
* Demonstrated excellence, passion and leadership in project management
* Strong cross-group communication and negotiation skills
* Detail-oriented and results-driven with a track record of managing projects to completion on-time
* Strong technical understanding with a commitment to self-improvement
* A major plus: prior software development experience
* BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
This position is based in Animoto's New York City office in central Manhattan (Greenwich Village).
Please forward cover letter and resume to jobs@animoto.com.
To apply: Please forward cover letter and resume to jobs@animoto.com.
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