Project Manager

Job Description:

Data Engineering on Dentsu’s Data and Technology Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling our data infrastructure and products to support business-critical applications and insights. This role goes beyond technical execution—you will lead by example, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across departments to deliver high-impact solutions. You’ll design systems with long-term scalability in mind, proactively identify and resolve operational issues, and ensure our data platforms are secure, reliable, and aligned with business goals.

You will work closely with Product and Engineering stakeholders to translate complex business needs into robust technical solutions. Your ability to communicate clearly, coordinate across teams, and drive agile delivery will be essential to your success. As a thought leader, you’ll contribute to the evolution of engineering best practices, evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tooling in our products, promote a culture of continuous learning, and help shape the future of our data capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage complex projects with managerial oversite
• Works across departments and stakeholder engagement
• Makes sure product goals and scope are understood by every team member
• Facilitates scrum events - daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos and retrospectives
• Onboards, develops and manages team of engineers
• Removes bottlenecks/impediments that impede progress
• Defines and drives product development process across the engineering team
• Reports project progress
• Collaborate with leads to maintain efficient product structure to ensure maximum performance
• Evaluates and summarizes weekly project report(s) for management, identifying successful completion of goals and deliverables and any follow-up action required
• Identify risks, mitigation strategies and dependencies. Ensure escalations are raised appropriately
• Ensure timely routing and tracking of work requests through the team
• Manage and maintain the document repository for the team
• Manage peer-level client relationships as the primary client contact for all project inquiries and needs
• Work closely with cross-departmental teams to identify areas for increased efficiencies and opportunities for standardization
• Ability to thrive in a complex environment consisting of geographically dispersed and highly matrixed teams ranging from 25 people
• Manage and ensure smooth cross-team communications
• Assist with process definition and adherence

Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong ability to understand technical concepts and development process
• Experience in Agile methodologies
• Experience managing project teams of up to 25 people; demonstrated decision-making ability and desire to lead
• Strong client management skills; manage through challenging situations resulting in positive outcomes
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate concepts to a technical and non-technical audience
• Ability to articulate key concepts and issues in oral and written communication
• Strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills as well as an attention to detail
• Willingness to be available as project needs and timelines require
• High degree of personal integrity and accountability
• Ability to manage multiple projects and issues in parallel
• Ability to listen and concisely summarize and to make decisions in a timely manner
• Ability to proactively take initiative and motivate teams to produce results
• Strong desire and willingness to learn new concepts

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or work experience that demonstrates comparable abilities

Relevant experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with agile methodology
• Adapt at using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, and Confluence

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