Manager, Technology - Freelance

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Job Description

Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms. We have strategic partnerships with the world’s leading marketing and technology vendors that allow us to leverage the top platforms and tools for our clients. Through collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists are paving the way for innovation and transforming the marketing landscape.

Our team is made up of a diverse group of highly qualified people with various backgrounds, who bring qualities such as intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.

We’re searching for a Manager who can contribute to project success throughout the complete lifecycle. You will be working with a team of highly talented individuals in Strategy, Marketing, Media, Creative and Technology to help drive results for our clients.

Tasks and responsibilities include:

[TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT/STRATEGY]

• Responsible for the delivery of technical projects
• Managing the workflow of JIRA tickets across the Development and QA teams
• Reviewing the output of the Development team
• Providing feedback via JIRA to the Development team
• Determining and providing daily project and task status to the internal working team
• Identifying and resolving technical issues with the development team
• Driving cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
• Actively managing multiple simultaneous projects
• Partnering with project managers and account executives to set daily tasks and work priorities to the development and QA teams
• Identifying, tracking and reporting project risks in coordination with the business and client teams
• Providing status reports to the technology leadership team across all active projects
• Forecasting development and QA staff needs
• Collaborating with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements or user stories
• Collaborating with Creative team in the design review phase of the projects and providing clear feedback to help align with requirements or user stories (particularly usability, feasibility, and accessibility)
• Supporting the Business Analysis team by reviewing and providing feedback on requirements and functional specifications
• Supporting the Development team by responding to requests for clarification and deeper analysis
• Contributing to the technology management practice and the Technology capability’s continuous improvement activities by bringing innovative ideas to the table
• Staying current on emerging digital marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
• Assisting in training and mentoring technology analysts and senior analysts

[QUALITY ASSURANCE]

• Developing test plans and test cases through analysis of the project documentation
• Executing test cases for websites and applications and reporting of discovered issues/defects
• Collaborating with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
• Actively participating in the QA project tasks scope definition
• Assisting in triaging and prioritizing identified product issues
• Partnering with the Technology Management team to provide progress updates
• Supporting the Development team by responding to requests for clarification and deeper analysis
• Following industry best practices for QA and technology as well as staying current on emerging digital technologies and trends
• Contributing to the QA practice and the Technology capability’s continuous improvement activities by bringing innovative ideas to