Technical Program Manager
Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. We are seeking a program manager to support our engineering and broader teams and bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders to drive the production process towards high quality and on-time feature releases.
Responsibilities
Technically drive and support engineering team’s goals. Ensure alignment with company goals, working with business owners and internal team leaders
Define and maintain multiple project schedules, timelines, and communication artifacts. Partner with internal dev teams and external parties to deliver on time and with the quality required
Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, release, and post release phases
Efficiently allocate resources to ensure efficient execution
Do critical path analysis and identify risks and blockers, suggest mitigations and guide the team to remove blockers
Identify decisions required to move a project forward, determine the decision makers, and ensure decisions are made. Assume responsibility and drive ownership for issue resolution
Detail-oriented and adept at following-up with others to drive deliverables to completion
Ensure engineering team is set up for success, utilizing best practices in agile / scrum, and using appropriate tools such as JIRA. Embed within team as necessary to do so
Autonomously drive change initiatives across multiple functions throughout the organization
Continuously monitor and improve the effectiveness of our processes to increase speed to launch and quality of service
Requirements
Strong understanding of agile development process
3+ years of experience leading planning, project lifecycles, and workflows in a dynamic engineering organization
Computer Science degree and / or several years of work experience as a software engineer highly preferred
Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
The technical acumen to understand and influence decisions made on architecture and implementation by the engineering teams.
Expertise with project management tracking tools such as Jira, Shotgun, Asana, Trello, Microsoft Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Strong ability to influence across multiple teams
Operate successfully in ambiguous environments
Ability to handle multiple contending priorities simultaneously in an exciting environment
Avid interest in the possibilities of Augmented and Virtual Reality.