Job description

Job Description

This position is responsible for the OTT platform development and releases by coordinating the team project activities within Olympusat in alignment across each line of business: Entertainment AVOD and SVOD. The Platform team’s roadmap is the highest priority area of focus in the Owned and Operated (O&O) Digital area and has the biggest impact for the brands and their consumers (end to end). The person in this role also provides program-level release and platform management support across multiple Agile technology teams in collaboration with the brands, ad sales, brand and corporate research, business development, content distribution, data strategy, and security.

The Project Manager may combine traditional and Agile practices to support operational (ops) activities. Must be highly organized and able to simultaneously run multiple initiatives of varying complexity, prioritizing the work of your teams appropriately. He/she must be able to identify issues proactively, resolve escalated conflicts, and be able to work across a complex organization to ensure smooth execution of his/her area’s project and ops activities. This position is responsible for working with Product Management, Engineering, and Technical Leadership to facilitate the adoption and execution of software products throughout the O&O group, within Olympusat and our brands.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful delivery and timeline of projects and ops in Platform teams
• Leverage Scrum and other Agile methodologies to facilitate cross-team delivery and empower teams
• Work with Product and Engineering management to reveal and manage dependencies
• Collaborate with Shared Services Leads, Line of Business Leads, Content Systems and Curation Leads to create and propagate processes for tracking delivery across multiple projects and services
• Account for the accuracy in sizing and scoping of individual projects or programs
• Ensure change control and risk mitigation processes are established and overseen
• Communicate project and ops information to PMO Lead, executive management, directors, and other key personnel
• Coordinate participation of different technology and business groups in roadmap planning, requirements gathering, specifications, design, development and deployment of key projects and ops
• Collaborate with PMO Leads in setting up framework for cross- team communication, coordination of integration among components, and provide related governance
• Manage projects and interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence and integrity of the release
• Work closely with Program Managers, Project Managers and third-party providers to coordinate releases across multiple technology teams, from inception to delivery to consumer
• Coordinate release effort based on a request backlog and roadmap
• Plan and enforce strict, regular release cycles/integration windows for both the O&O and Shared Services team
• Collaborate with PMO Leadership to manage resource capacity of component team(s)
• Ensure all release communications and release notes are standardized and distributed accordingly
• Work with Engineering management to improve the software engineering processes associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently
• Review and approve staff, contract, and freelancer timesheets (when applicable)
• Frequently interact with a diverse group of executives, managers, technology, and business sponsors

Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience in release and/or program/project management
• PMI project management best practices (highly desirable)
• Knowledge of Scrum and other Agile frameworks and software engineering practices, as well as traditional project management approaches
• Ability to understand technologies applicable to assigned product or service area and facilitate resolution of technical needs as they arise
• Comfortable leading business and technology teams in vetting technical options
• Ability to create trust, and to motivate
• Having assembled and led great teams (with direct reports)
• Working with and managing cross functional resources and vendors
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for business and technical audiences at junior and executive levels
• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills

• Working in a media technology environment as a Project Manager.
• Mentoring release/project/program management staff
• Working with software developers, technical and business management, department heads, product developers and QA specialists (includes local and distributed teams)
• Media Technologies including mobile applications, web sites, video delivery, ad delivery, content management systems, and streaming live events
• Producing advanced reports in Jira, Excel, and other reporting tools
• Ability to create and deliver executive-level summary reports and presentations

EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferred.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $51,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• West Palm Beach, FL 33401: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Project management: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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