Sr. Project Manager, Ad Platforms

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Primary Responsibilities:

Paramount Tech is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives across its Ad Platforms organization. As the Senior Project Manager, you will drive end-to-end delivery of complex, high-profile projects underpinning Paramount’s advertising technology roadmap. You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, and Operations leaders to align business objectives with execution, ensuring quality, scalability, and timeline commitments are met across multiple workstreams and teams. As a successful candidate, you are highly organized and able to simultaneously manage multiple initiatives of varying complexity, prioritizing your work appropriately. You have outstanding communication skills, with the ability to summarize and present at both an executive and team level. You exhibit leadership in your ability to proactively identify issues, communicate, organize, and bring together teams both inside and outside of Paramount in multiple locations and time zones to solve problems. You are fluent in Ad Platform concepts and have a solid working foundation in both Agile and traditional project management. The candidate will be expected to:

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of cross-functional Ad Platform initiatives spanning multiple teams and vendors.

• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, risk registries, and communication frameworks to ensure transparency and accountability at all levels.

• Drive alignment between program priorities and engineering capacity, optimizing workflows and team velocity across releases.

• Champion Agile best practices across multiple scrum teams, mentoring Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and engineering leads on process maturity and consistency.

• Cultivate executive-level visibility into project status, risks, and outcomes through dashboards, reports, and business reviews.

• Facilitate effective go-live planning and deployment readiness, ensuring operational teams are fully enabled for post-launch support.

• Strengthen vendor relationships and manage external partner deliverables, SLAs, and integration timelines.

• Identify process efficiency opportunities across the Ad Platform ecosystem, implementing repeatable frameworks for improved resource allocation and release management.

• Lead retrospectives across multiple programs to drive continuous improvement and scalability in execution practices.

• Drive efficient team operations by promoting a common understanding of Scrum roles, rituals, artifacts, and processes, ensuring their adherence through a voice of reason and authority, and by facilitating Scrum ceremonies.

• Optimize the team to their highest potential and embodies the spirit of Agile and continuous improvement, by motivating the team towards self-organization, by surfacing data and learnings that illuminate areas to improve, and by continually learning and applying new tools and techniques to manage himself or herself and coach the team.

• Create transparency into the team and trust with the business and stakeholders, by continuously honing team estimation capabilities, by keeping the team focused on delivering on their roadmap commitments, and by providing visibility into team progress through demos, sprint progress reporting, and communication.

• Identifies, tracks, and removes impediments for feature/project and team success.

• Facilitates the creation of a well-defined product backlog.

• Ensures planning of go-live and deployment activities and facilitates their execution.

• Ensures that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities.

• Assists with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for the team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint.