Senior Project Manager

About the Role:

In the role of Senior Project Manager on the Partner Engineering team, you will serve as a strategic collaborator managing high impact projects with cross functional teams. responsible for process, organization and communication to improve engineering efficiency as we scale. You’ll drive quarterly and sprint planning, execution and delivery.

As a Senior Project manager, you will not only be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of technical projects, ensuring they meet business requirements, timelines and quality standards but will also collaborate and engage in day to day operations with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and design to meet defined targets. You will also get a chance to coach EMs, PMs and Engineers to drive organization wide culture of continuous improvement.

What You'll Do:

• Planning:
  • Closely collaborate with the leadership team to define quarterly or bi annual planning, roadmap, objectives, scope and deliverables
  • Work with engineering teams on creating detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines and resource allocation. Identify and manage project dependencies and risks
• Team Coordination:
  • Coordinate and align design, product and engineering teams involved in projects to facilitate effective communication, collaboration and drive decisions
  • Work with team members to move forward in case of any roadblocks or conflicts
• Project Execution:
  • Make sure project execution is going according to the plan and track milestones
  • Track and Report weekly project status updates to stakeholders
• Risk Management:
  • Identifying risks and blockers then work to mitigate and unblock through all the tools in your toolkit
• Day to Day Operations:
  • Lead, own and improve sprint rituals, such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and demos
  • Ensure correct reflection of teams’ assignments and their statuses on tools, boards and dashboards
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Drive the culture of continuous improvement by identifying any opportunities to improve current processes that can contribute towards teams’ productivity and efficiency.
  • Lead and organize quarter and project level retrospectives to extract key learnings

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in Program/Project Management (development PM focused)
• Prior technical experience or a technical degree is recommended
• Experience with project management software (such as JIRA, Confluence, Coda, etc.)
• You pride yourself on your