What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at MNTN?
At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members, and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2024.)
We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social and helps brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.
So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.
What you’ll do:
- Deliver your products’ initiatives in the desired availability windows
- Take pre-defined technical and functional requirements from technical leadership to strategize, sequence and plan your projects
- Own, track and manage your teams' project scopes and timelines to ensure forecasted deliverability
- Document project plans for cross-team initiatives and drive on-schedule delivery of results
- Identify, track and remove blockers and dependencies
- Document the product/feature knowledge for consumption by other teams
- Facilitate agile events, including, but not limited to: stand ups, parking lots, backlog refinements, sprint reviews, sprint plannings and/or retrospectives for your team
- Engage with technical leads, product designers, engineers and testers to ensure tickets are properly detailed, prioritized and estimated
- Track, analyze and story tell metrics, at the team-level, to help deliver consistent productivity and velocity value and forecast project estimation
What you’ll bring:
- At least 5 years of project management experience, preferably leading cross-functional, technical teams that build data products
- Experience in Mar-tech, Ad-tech, or client-facing SaaS platform is preferred
- An understanding of data flows and basic purpose and usefulness of common terms and technologies, such as APIs, SQL, ETL pipelines, etc
- Basic proficiency in data analysis, including the ability to interpret datasets, generate insights, and create data-driven reports using SQL and analytics/BI tools
- Experience implementing and maintaining Scrum, Kanban and/or other agile development frameworks within cross-functional teams
- Experience owning, tracking and delivering projects end-to-end, often driving multiple complex projects at the same time
- Strong understanding of capacity planning, resource allocation, risk management
- Excellent negotiation skills with the ability to navigate complex trade-offs
- Demonstrated problem-solving capabilities in fast-paced, multifaceted environments
- Effective communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management abilities
- Exceptional decision-making skills with a solid understanding of engineering processes and team dynamics
- Passion for building strong team culture and maintaining high levels of team motivation and engagement
- Technical savviness. You should be comfortable with technical topics and able to discuss them with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong articulation/presentation skills
- Experience with Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence, ServiceDesk) is required
- Certified Scrum Master and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner certification is a plus
MNTN Perks:
- 100% remote within the US
- Flexible vacation policy
- Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
- Three-day weekend every month of the year
- Competitive compensation
- 100% healthcare coverage
- 401k plan
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
- Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development
About MNTN:
Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain’t us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN.
MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.
Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including Build with Ferguson Master, OneWheel, Tarte, Decked, and National University.
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