Production Technology Senior Project Manager - Studios
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Job Summary:
| Program Management & Enabling Technologies team, you’ll be joining a group of seasoned, dedicated technologists supporting world class productions, developing the next generation of production technology, as well as solving a range of interesting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic environment. We’re looking for a senior project manager to oversee the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a variety of projects and initiatives. You’ll play the critical role of implementing key initiatives for production groups and within the Technology team. You’ll report to the Director of Program Management & Enabling Tech. |
Responsibilities:
- Serve as key point of contact for production stakeholders across Technology departments to intake production requests, provide updates, assess priority and track schedules
- Lead operational and growth initiatives from end-to-end, including gathering requirements and defining scope, schedule and resourcing management for the technology team (e.g., IT Infrastructure Engineering, Desktop Support)
- Lead large scale complex projects that span across internal and external departments and at times with vendors
- Ensure clear reporting of project status from project teams including timelines, milestone tracking, budget status and issue identification to program management and stakeholders
- Prioritize and escalate critical operational tasks, execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Maintain KPI dashboards related to program metrics via MS Power BI
- Apply analytical and critical thinking to identify team inefficiencies and risk areas, and implement projects or processes to improve operations
- Create workflow diagrams of production technology processes and identify opportunities to streamline processes or improve efficiency
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 to 10 years of experience in Technical Project Management, utilizing waterfall and agile methodology
- 5+ year’s experience managing and developing teams to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment
- Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple tasks and organizing work effectively
- Strong experience in managing technical operations teams (i.e., IT hardware engineers & software developers)
- Good meeting facilitation skills and effective team player
- Extensive experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet and familiar with Jira.
- Ability to develop and present business cases via PowerPoint or Keynote
- Strong written and oral communications skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to create workflow drawings and process maps utilizing Lucidchart
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience working in a Content Creation/Production environment
- Experienced with Business Intelligence tools such as MS Power BI
- PMP certification a plus
- Certified Scrummaster a plus
Required Education
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