Technical Project Manager

Candidate will work with engineering management, the engineering team, Pixelogic customers, and other third parties to ensure integration between Pixelogic systems and customer systems are effectively and efficiently integrated, as well as help ensure customers are happy.

A successful candidate for this role must be able to navigate multiple complex initiatives, dealing with competing priorities, and diverse teams. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills and be able drive aggressive schedules while maintaining effective working relationships. The candidate must have good outward facing skills, and have the discretion needed to interact with customers.

A strong candidate for this role will be focused on getting results and helping out in whatever manner, consistent with a senior-level position and with the values of the company, will achieve those results.

Although this role is initially focused on customer integration, the job may evolve to include technical project management in other areas of Pixelogic systems development.

A few examples of topics where the candidate may be involved include the following:

• Coordinate and track development, testing and deployment schedules across technology group, as it applies to integration
• Coordinate, track and communicate development and deployment schedules across internal and external customers
• Manage regular internal and external communications including meetings and materials (e.g., product one-sheets, presentation decks and other marketing materials across technology group)
• Help drive continuous improvement cycle across all development, deployment and support processes
• Ensuring technology infrastructure is available. This ranges from participating in vendor negotiations to coordinating with other organizations, such as IT and Support, to deploy and maintain.
• Help ensure engineering practices are defined and consistently enforced
• Manage financial tracking, reporting and cost analysis for technology team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline or business. M.S., or M.B.A preferred
• 5+ years experience working with development teams
• Experience coordinating work with other companies
• The ability to juggle multiple competing priorities
• Experience with software development processes. Experience with Agile development is a plus
• Experience working with senior management
• Strong consistency and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to collaborate and self-manage
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of media, preferably professional film and television
• Experience working with distributed teams and vendors