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Sr. Technical Program Manager
Remote - Must be located in Santa Monica, CA area
Optomi, in partnership with an industry leading media streaming organization is seeking a Technical Program Manager within their Core Platform Engineering teams. As Senior Technical Project Manager (TPM) within Platform Engineering you will have the opportunity to refine our processes around delivery. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of assignments for embedded SREs (System Reliability Engineers) who bring deep reliability and domain knowledge as they embed across the engineering portfolio.
Our TPMs partner with engineering managers and play a critical role in structuring and executing impactful cross-org initiatives. TPMs have a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to learn more, both within their teams’ product space and across the wider department.Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, possess the ability to work through unknowns, identify paths to success to ensure delivery, and be able to autonomously work on multiple, critical assignments that span the department.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively define and represent projects goals and plan; develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables.
- Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational connections while helping to drive teams towards commitments.
- Track progress against deliverables and work closely with the team to ensure on-time delivery.
- Share concise and effective status information across multiple reporting formats to keep stakeholders informed and proactively communicate risks, forecasts, and dependencies.
- Facilitate technical and stakeholder meetings; follow the discussions in order to summarize and capture outcomes.
- Foster cross-team coordination and communication
- Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
- Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager.
- Navigate competing and dynamic priorities, balance competing requests with agility.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing, and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
- Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams.
- Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation.
- Track record creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team’s current engagements and advocating for future work.
- Experience in leading teams through improvement through process re-engineering.
- Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations.
- Working understanding of cloud-based development and a desire to know more.
- Degree in STEM and / or experience as a software engineer
- Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc.
Salary : $85 - $88
