Senior Technical Project manager

Job Description

Senior Technical Project Manager

PMO Team

We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Project Manager who has a passion for working with Mobile Teams. As a Senior Technical Project Manager and Chegg, you are detail-oriented, solution-focused, and collaborative, and you bring strong project management and Scrum Master expertise to our cross-functional product engineering teams.

You will be the person who coordinates behind the scenes to make sure our most critical engineering projects are delivered. Our Senior Technical Project Managers must manage all factors that determine project and team success to ensure delivery within time, cost and quality parameters, taking work from discovery through delivery, including resource management, dependency mapping, scheduling, and development of project plans and project and team level reporting.

Responsibilities:

Facilitation of end-to-end scoping and estimation
Collaborate with key stakeholders to manage the planning to execution process of product engineering projects.
Monitor scheduling, project flow, dependency mapping, planning and resource management from accepted concepts through delivery for product engineering projects.
Manage the development, maintenance and distribution of complex status reporting to manage and communicate expectations and potential risks across the organization.
Identify and escalate issues to leadership, as appropriate.
Facilitate effective and efficient meetings including all Scrum ceremonies and daily stand-ups.
Escalate and radiate impediments for resolution and assist with identifying and mitigating risk.
Maintain transparency into the team’s work through Agile tools and metrics. Track and communicate team progress. Leverage data to measure & monitor progress. (Burndown charts, etc.)
Engage multiple roles and stakeholders in critical discussions for consensus building.
Help identify external dependencies and assist the Product Manager and Engineering Managers in planning and facilitating the maintenance of the team backlog.
Acts as a point of contact for project team members, clearly and consistently communicating the needs of the organization.
6-month position with an option for more.

Requirements:

You have a strong understanding of Project Management principles and appropriate agile methodologies and processes.
You have experience driving mid to large-scale, multi-discipline projects
You have worked with a variety of agile frameworks and you can select the best method for the desired outcome but not necessarily operate with pre-defined or standardized processes
Experience working in a SaaS company with an agile environment.
You take ownership of problems and never shy away from a challenge.
You are flexible and tolerate ambiguity while still operating effectively.
You are a self-learner, willing to learn new skills, industries, and platforms
Certified Scrum Master

Preferred Qualifications:

5 years experience in a Technical Project Management role, preferably within engineering
Solid understanding of engineering’s role within an organization
Project management qualification (PMP) or equivalent
Proficiency in project management software tools such as Jira Software, Jira Align, and Smartsheet

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