Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (Internal Tools & Content)

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We are hiring a Senior Staff TPM to join the Content and Experience Tooling Team, which is within the Content Discovery, AI & Experimentation Org. The team owns and manages several end-to-end applications used to power several internal and customer facing experiences, such as the content management and configuration systems, content promotion, content catalog visualizer and multiple other apps and services. This team works with internal partners such as the Merchandising, Editorial and Product teams as well as the Personalization engineering team.

Responsibilities

As a TPM, your primary responsibility is to ensure the timely delivery of well-designed, well-scoped, high-quality software that meets and exceeds customer expectations. You do this by combining the skillset of a program manager with the technical acumen and experience of an engineer, architect or technical product owner.

The ideal candidate creates project milestones, secures commitments, spots edge cases, identifies and monitors risks, cross-team dependencies, and scope creep. You track and report on delivery status against planned milestones and dates. You regularly engage with internal and external stakeholders, review metrics & data and monitor operations within the integration program.

The ideal candidate is a strong self-starter and therefore can drill into business data and research results to identify clear direction and focus for their tasks, projects and programs. You continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.

The ideal candidate has had experience working with multiple partners/ vendors and maintaining partner relationships. You have demonstrated experience leading small to medium projects. You have experience in project management and agile development methodologies with a proven track record of delivering results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in project management in the technology realm

• Lead planning, execution and delivery of strategic & complex programs across multiple teams (product and technology) around the world

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs.

• You have a solid understanding of software development methods like CI/CD, Agile Scrum, Waterfall, etc.

• You have shipped multiple strategic & complex projects with cross-team dependencies and used data to assess their impact.

• You have experience taking full ownership with all phases of project delivery from concept to production, including defining features and deliverables, securing team commitments, establishing a project charter, handling all communication and reporting, overseeing development & deployment, and performing retrospective assessment using data and key per