Technical Project Manager

Description:

WSC Sports, the pioneer in AI-powered sports content technology, empowers their clients world-wide to connect with their fans through AI-tailored sports content experiences. WSC Sports’ platform automates the creation, management and distribution of content, enabling sports rights holders to expand reach, grow fan bases, and unlock revenue opportunities across digital platforms.

Why WSC Sports:

You’ll work in an awesome environment alongside some of the most innovative people in the industry, using cutting-edge technologies and tools (video editing, Gen AI, data, etc.). At WSC Sports, you have the opportunity to directly influence the products and tools used by our clients, including sports giants such as the NBA, Bundesliga, LaLiga, ESPN - and that’s just the beginning of what WSC Sports has to offer! Join us and be a part of the best team in tech as we Fuel the Fandom worldwide.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will drive the planning, execution, and delivery of key cross-domain initiatives across Product and R&D. As part of our Product organization, you will act as a key connector between Product, R&D, QA, and Operations, ensuring teams are aligned and execution stays on track. You will navigate complex dependencies, remove blockers, and drive initiatives from early-stage 0-to-1 products through large, multi-quarter projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

What you’ll do:

• Lead Cross-Domain Initiatives: Own end-to-end execution of complex initiatives across multiple Product and R&D teams, managing dependencies, risks, priorities, and timelines.
• Define the Solution: Take an active part in defining the solution together with the Product Lead and R&D Lead, so the plan is shaped with the people who will build it and own it.
• Plan & Align: Take an active role in quarterly planning - OKRs, capacity, and roadmaps - and partner closely with Product and R&D leaders on execution plans.
• Run the Delivery Discipline: Apply project management practice consistently across your programs: progress tracking, planning and timeline management (including Gantt views), capacity planning, risk assessment, and scope and change control.
• Own External Commitments: Track and protect the commitments that carry an outside deadline - a client at risk, a launch date agreed with a partner - and surface their real status early enough for the organization to act on it.
• Drive Execution: Turn strategy into action, resolve complex bottlenecks, and balance business priorities against technical constraints so teams can make clear, practical decisions.

What you’ll need:

• Experience: 3+ years in technical project or program management within a high-tech R&D environment, on R&D or product projects.
• Cross-Team Delivery: Proven experience driving initiatives across several teams with real interdependencies - not delivery within a single team.
• Project Management Craft: Hands-on with Agile and the software development lifecycle, and fluent in the practice behind it - planning, dependencies, risk and change control. Comfortable in Jira, Confluence and planning tools.
• Technical Depth: Technological background, academic or professional, with the aptitude to dive into system architecture, technical challenges, and solution discussions with R&D teams.
• Matrix Management: Ability to influence and align teams and stakeholders without direct authority, and to communicate status clearly to developers and management alike.
• Ownership & Drive: A proactive, hands-on approach - including picking up in-flight projects and quickly building an accurate picture of status and risk.
• Adaptability: Comfortable running several projects in parallel where priorities shift within the quarter.
• Education & English: University degree, B.Sc. preferred. Professional English, strong enough to lead calls with international partners and write updates read by management.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in B2B environments and/or client-facing delivery, or working against a partner's deadline.
• Background in sports, media or video technology.