Technical Project Manager

Hexplora - Scottsdale, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Scottsdale, AZ

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Technical Project Manager will facilitate collaboration across various cross-functional technical and non-technical agile teams to drive the delivery of high-quality software solutions and new products that bring business value. This role involves managing the end-to-end delivery of medium to large-scale initiatives, ensuring alignment among stakeholders, and maintaining project health through effective communication and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive end-to-end delivery of medium to large-scale initiatives, build roadmaps, project plans with dependencies, track progress, identify and resolve dependencies, proactively identify risks and mitigate, escalate in a timely manner eliminating issues by managing systemic impediments.
• Work with multiple Engineering leads and teams, Product, Business to define E2E delivery milestones and drive value delivery for our customers.
• Work as Project Manager for Delivery of E2E Features.
• Partner with the Product team ensuring a large backlog is built.
• Ensure Program/Project status is up to date in the system of record, communicate the status at regular intervals to all stakeholders including executive updates.
• Monitor progress ensuring results are reviewed and facilitate the User Acceptance Testing process, developing rollout plans, and communicating them to all stakeholders ensuring alignment.
• Partner with the Operations team for successful roll out of the product to global agents.
• Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams are involved in development.
• Responsible for Product Launch approval, ensures each product release has mandatory approval from including Engineering, Product, Marketing, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate systems development and project management processes are being utilized.
• Provide expert advice and coaching to leads and teams to ensure best process execution.
• Communicate roll up of project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner for senior leadership consumption, escalating blocking issues risking milestone delivery.
• Build work breakdown structures with dependencies aligning to the project goals.
• Establish performance metrics and KPIs to monitor project health and progress. Provide regular program status updates and executive-level reports communicating the status with outcomes and accomplishments.
• Possess a strong understanding of the technical aspects of projects they manage. Collaborate with technical teams to make informed decisions and assess feasibility.
• Hold daily SCRUM calls as needed to ensure healthy sprint deliverables.
• Ensure resource commitment before project execution.
• Partner with Engg. team to build detailed WBS/Schedule and hold team accountable to deliverables.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of proven experience as a Technology Project Manager or similar leadership roles in managing complex projects across multiple teams or business units.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience implementing them in large-scale projects.
• Experience in the Ad-Tech or media industry will be a plus.
• Managed a minimum of 3 database migration projects with at least one of them focused on Databricks.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical expertise with strong business acumen.
• Demonstrated success in driving cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to engage and influence at all organizational levels.
• Ability to communicate and report at executive level will be an advantage.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex information and make data-driven decisions.
• Proven track record in leading teams to deliver high-quality results within challenging timelines.
• Change management expertise and experience driving organizational transformation.
• Jira, Jira Align, Asana, and Confluence experience a plus.