We are seeking a dynamic, innovative Technical Project Manager to drive the technical implementation of new strategic products across several of our internal and external product teams. As a key member of a small team, you will have the unique opportunity to influence and shape the outcome of strategic products. You will be a key point of contact for a diverse cross-functional team that will look to you for leadership and guidance. This is a highly visible role, offering the opportunity to interact internally and externally across senior levels of the organization.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Work with Technical teams and partners to understand the business requirements and translate these requirements into technical/functional specifications.
- Discover the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches; lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
- Balance business needs versus technical constraints. Assertively hold all parties accountable to strategic goals.
- Work with our Directors of Engineering to coordinate the technical development effort, track/drive the project, and manage the operational implementation process. Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management and make trade-offs; encourage smart risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit; identify interdependencies between concurrent projects to prevent downstream problems.
- Lead cross-functional team meetings between technical and non-technical teams to follow up, prioritize work, and track dependencies..
- Coordinate meetings with stakeholders and provide updates.
- Roadmap and prioritize with engineering teams to determine strategic priority projects. .
What We’re Looking For:
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time
- Proven experience in managing large scale enterprise projects and writing public technical specifications
- Possess a thorough understanding of technical implementation processes (design, configuration, testing, and deployment)
- Demonstrate maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, leadership skills essential to successful program/project management
- Be a motivated self-starter who is also a team player with great cross-group collaboration skills
- Exhibit excellent oral and communication skills
- Track record of successfully delivering high quality projects on time in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices and identify what truly matters
- At least 3-5 years experience leading large, cross-functional technical projects
- Knowledge and application of PMI process groups
Even Better:
- PMP Certified
- Technical background in IT Operations
Who We Are:
Founded in 2000, Red Ventures is a portfolio of growing digital businesses that bring consumers and brands together through integrated e-commerce, strategic partnerships and many proprietary brands including Bankrate, AllConnect.com and Reviews.com. Headquartered south of Charlotte, NC, Red Ventures has over 3000 employees in offices across the US, as well as London and Sao Paulo. For more information, visitwww.redventures.com ( http://www.redventures.com ).
At Red Ventures we believe that diversity makes us stronger – at work and in the world. Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications.
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