Technical Project Manager

Vizio Group - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

Furniture, Home Furnishings, Electronics, and Appliance Retailers

About the position

VIZIO is seeking a proactive and forward-thinking Technical Project Manager to enhance existing operations and platform projects. This hands-on role involves managing implementation efforts of operations platforms, leading engineering teams, and ensuring that milestones and deadlines are met. The position requires outstanding leadership to deliver high-quality projects on time while effectively communicating with various stakeholders.

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 program execution of interdependent projects.
• Identify risks and issues, develop risk mitigation strategies, and implement associated processes.
• Supervise the overall roadmap and report potential obstacles such as scope creep and resource shortfalls.
• Communicate effectively with software engineers, product managers, and development teams.
• Conduct data analysis to provide insights for Engineering Managers.
• Identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Marketing teams.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• Sound technical foundation and a highly motivated self-starter.
• Good understanding of OS systems, media, and system architecture.
• Sound understanding of UX and UI development.