Project Manager (Technical) (RAPP Worldwide California Inc., Los Angeles, CA)

$90,000 - $140,000/Yr

Rapp Worldwide California - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Los Angeles, CA

About the position

The Project Manager (Technical) at RAPP Worldwide California Inc. is responsible for orchestrating the motion of projects from inception to completion, ensuring effective communication and collaboration across various departments. This role requires a strong understanding of client requests, resource management, and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical team members. The Project Manager will also be tasked with managing project workflows, ensuring quality assurance, and driving reporting processes to maintain project integrity and meet client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate the motion of every project liaising with all departments from start through completion.
• Understand scope of client request and implications to translate requests.
• Align with resource management to ensure resources are available and present at appropriate times throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.
• Use strong communication skills to work with Product Managers to establish overall release goals and identify dependencies for cross-product initiatives.
• Help inform technical requirements such as data compliance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Work with product teams to ensure that the acceptance criteria is met.
• Identify dependencies and drive teams to address them.
• Manage simultaneous projects and priorities within budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Monitor, report and solve for project progress and risk, redirect as required through keen prioritization skills and escalate as necessary to ensure integrity of client scopes.
• Lead quality assurance requirements for the project and maintain the required level of quality.
• Ensure the different aspects of requirements are taken into consideration such as data measurement, exceptions, analytics, privacy, and accessibility.
• Drive reporting process required for project including status, risks, scope changes, etc.
• Provide documentation for all completed and in-progress work for both internal and external facing projects.
• Initiate all activities to support 'retrospectives'.
• Contribute, and when assigned, lead efficient meetings and conference calls and ensure timely conference notes and action steps taken.

Requirements

• Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Project Management, Product Management, Computer and Information Systems, or related field.
• 2 years of professional experience as a Project Manager, Product Manager, or any occupation involving IT Project Management.
• 2 years of professional experience managing project workflows in an enterprise management software system (Workfront, D365, or Trello).
• 2 years of professional experience utilizing Atlassian products (including Jira and Confluence).
• 2 years of professional experience gathering and ensuring all aspects of business requirements are taken into consideration including data measurement, data visualization, privacy management, or analytics in translation to technical requirements.
• 2 years of professional experience delivering software solutions utilizing SCRUM and Agile methodologies.
• 2 years of professional experience utilizing web technologies including HTML, DHTML, XML, and Flash.
• 2 years of professional experience utilizing Microsoft technologies including ASP.NET, MVC, and MSSQL.
• 2 years of professional experience utilizing front end technologies including jQuery.
• 2 years of professional experience working in cloud environments inclusive of Azure and AWS.
• 2 years of professional experience working with product teams to ensure that the acceptance criteria of business requirements are met.
• 2 years of professional experience leading quality assurance requirements projects and maintaining the required level of quality.

Benefits

• Partial telecommuting may be permitted.
• Salary range: $90,000-$140,000 per year.