Senior Technical Project Manager

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

 

About the Team 

The Trust Engineering team builds platforms used by all cloud engineers at Roku. These components are designed to be a cost-effective and secure platform of services that Roku engineers use globally. Our team owns the following segments:

• The Developer platform, which involves management and evolution of source control, artifacts, CI/CD, and securing cloud infrastructure
• Our Application hosting platform, which is based on Kubernetes and Istio, is designed to address scalability, multi-region hosting, multi-cloud hosting, and the nuances of deployment
• The Observability platform, which is based on Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana, is integrated with our application hosting and developer platform
• Plus, the Cloud Governance program

Our team members are innovative, collegial, collaborative, and focused on building the best-in-class platform. We foster a culture of experimentation, looking for the best idea to take the day. As a leader on this team, our Director of Trust Engineering models this behavior: If we’re not trying new things, we’re not growing. We need to grow and adapt so that Roku remains at the forefront.

 

About the role

The Senior Technical Project Manager helps our Engineering team deliver our most complex, cross-functional, critical software development projects to market. The ideal candidate will be well-organized, experienced in agile project management, technically skilled, and genuinely interested in understanding the business goals and technology aspects of their projects (i.e., not satisfied with simply tracking tasks on a checklist or project plan).

 

What you'll be doing

• Partner with multiple engineering teams and product management to provide agile project management support to key product development and core engineering projects on a day-to-day basis:
  • Help product owners form and socialize program requirements, and translate them into engineering-actionable work
  • Collaborate with product owners to clearly understand and document business needs, set priorities for sprint planning, and review deliverables at sprint completion
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to secure engineering resources, manage priorities and dependencies across teams, and resolve issues in a timely manner
  • Build and maintain end-to-end project/program schedules
  • Establish committed deliverables and measure the team’s success against these commitments
  • Proactively identify, track, and communicate dependencies, risks, and issues affecting projects, and collaborate on finding a resolution
  • Report to stakeholders on project status and estimated delivery schedule regularly
  • Ensure that projects follow a lightweight methodology and meet quality standards before being released to end users
  • Serve as Agile Coach and act as an enabler of cross-functional collaboration across Engineering and Product Management teams
• Oversee, track, and report the status of a broader product category program and help the Product Category Lead drive the product category to its business goals
• Participate in and help to drive the quarterly and yearly roadmap planning processes
• Collaborate on defining and growing the Project Management organization within dataxu
• Work to continuously improve planning and project execution processes across engineering and product groups

 

We're excited if you have

• Bachelor’s Degree in CS, Engineering, or a related discipline and/or commensurate work experience
• 5+ years of experience working on software projects, ideally in SaaS and/or ad tech solutions
• Experience as an agile coach and/or Jira Admin is a big plus
• Strong communicator and consensus builder
• Able to influence process change without direct authority
• Have an interest in understanding the “what” and “how” as