The Role
Lead the technical implementation of website modernization, manage project timelines, facilitate agile ceremonies, and coordinate with teams for successful deployment.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re seeking a Technical Project Manager (Contract) to lead Bisnow’s site modernization initiative. This role will oversee the full technical implementation of our website transformation, managing coordination across development teams, vendor relationships, and key internal stakeholders.
The Project Manager will be responsible for driving the modernization project timeline, leading agile ceremonies specific to the migration effort, coordinating sprint planning for legacy system transitions, and managing deployment schedules for the new platform rollout. This contractor will translate our modernization roadmap into actionable sprints and tasks, develop detailed release schedules for phased migrations, and ensure a seamless transition from legacy systems to a modern architecture.
This is a hybrid position based at our New York office (123 William St), working closely with internal Bisnow teams and participating in daily stand-ups. The contract term is expected to be one year, barring any project delays.
BISNOW OVERVIEW
Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions and intelligent sales enablement tools.
Our platform enables our audience to do more business by engaging more than 1.5 million subscribers and convening more than 100,000 commercial real estate professionals every year. We host hundreds of events, publish thousands of thought-provoking stories, drive qualified leads and create opportunities that make deals happen. At Bisnow, we love to think globally but connect and inform our audience hyper-locally.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with stakeholders across the organization to gather and document detailed requirements for the site modernization project
- Map and document existing business processes, workflows, and system dependencies to inform migration strategy
- Facilitate requirements workshops and discovery sessions with business units to ensure comprehensive understanding of needs and priorities
- Run the daily stand-ups, plan the sprints, work with developers and other resources on task estimations
- Coordinate with departments and stakeholders on overarching project tasks, timelines, and deliverables
- Develop ongoing release plan and schedule for product deployments
- Monitor and communicate progress on deliverables and release schedule
- Communicate changes or pivots to the schedule or project planning
- Collaborate with stakeholders on project definition, objectives, and technical feasibility
- Run code review and deployment processes
- Operate and evolve the QA and release process
- Manage the feature, enhancement, and bug resolution pipeline
What are we looking for?
- Successful track record managing software development projects
- Web product development in the consumer facing or B2B space
- Understanding of data structures and database concepts
- Demonstrated proactive accurate project communications
- Bachelor’s degree, project management certification
- Worked at SaaS, DaaS, media, internet software or related company
- Experience with data-intensive applications
- Demonstrated strong communicator
What's in it for you?
- Steady and reliable work.
- Paid vacation.
- You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).
Before applying, please read our values below. Our values describe and give insight into our culture. If you do not share the same values, this role will not be a mutually beneficial fit. If you do share these values and want to apply, we encourage you to do so.
Our values demand that we be curious, self-aware, fearless, consistent. We say yes to seemingly insurmountable challenges because we dare ourselves to push further. And we go the distance because we are individually and collectively entrepreneurial, always asking: Why can’t it be done? We find a way because we care more than the competition. We embrace team and disown ego. We are ruthlessly disciplined and unabashedly kind. We unreservedly challenge the status quo and vigorously fight for new levels of excellence. We believe the difference between good and great is exceptional communication. We obsess over creating value for our team and our customers. We push ourselves and our industry to be more inclusive, to champion diversity and to fight racism, gender bias and all forms of inequality. We never peak. We never quit. We never have excuses. We own our failures and we commit to being smarter and stronger because of them. We give our best today and even better tomorrow. We are here to win.
Top Skills
Agile Methodologies
Daas
Data Structures
Database Concepts
SaaS
Web Product Development
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The Company
What We Do
Our mission is to inform, connect and advance the commercial real estate community to do more business. We aspire to be the most data-driven and humanizing digital media, live events and intelligence platform in the galaxy — and through this effort, drive the industry to greater heights.
Bisnow hosts 340+ events a year that are attended by over 70,000 people, 2,000 sponsors and hundreds of speakers. We also publish newsletters and morning briefs that reach almost three quarters of a million executives.
