Technical Project Manager

Vizio Group - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

501-1,000 employees

Furniture, Home Furnishings, Electronics, and Appliance Retailers

About the position

VIZIO is seeking a proactive and forward-thinking Technical Project Manager to enhance operations and platform projects. This hands-on role involves managing implementation efforts, leading engineering teams, and ensuring that project milestones and deadlines are met while delivering high-quality results.

Responsibilities

• Manage implementation efforts of operations platforms and lead engineering teams to meet milestones and deadlines.
• Run and lead engineering teams to deliver products and solutions for sophisticated embedded systems.
• Perform overall program-level planning and lead execution of interdependent projects, ensuring effective status reporting.
• Identify risks and issues, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate resolutions.
• Supervise the overall roadmap, identifying potential obstacles such as scope creep and resource shortfalls.
• Communicate effectively with software engineers, product managers, and development teams.
• Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers.
• Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or a similar field.
• 5+ years of experience in engineering development and project management.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire team members.
• Familiarity with SDLC and software engineering standard methodologies.
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Kanban development methodologies.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Proficiency in project management tools, particularly JIRA and Confluence.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of OS systems, media, and system architecture.
• Sound understanding of UX and UI development.
• Experience with Git/BitBucket.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities