[Remote] Contract Technical Project Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Careerminds is a leader in career transition and coaching solutions that helps organizations support employees through change and enable workforce growth and development. The Technical Project Manager will coordinate product development initiatives across multiple product pods, manage project plans and reporting, track blockers and performance metrics, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver improvements and meet strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Drive supportability improvement projects from inception, planning, to launch, adoption and impact measurement
• Develop and maintain a technology project plan, which outlines a project's tasks, milestone dates, status, and allocation of resources to stakeholders and other interested parties
• Mediate disputes, resolve scheduling and asset utilization conflicts
• Directly engage with engineering teams and product teams to drive product priorities and decisions using data driven approaches to improve the quality of product and service provided
• Utilize analytical thinking and a data driven approach to help make decisions
• Manage daily standups, weekly, monthly meeting cadences with the product and engineering teams
• Own the core Performance metrics and proactively engage with the engineering team to find, prioritize, and deliver the opportunities for improvement
• Define goals, create dashboards, monitor metrics, and partner collaboratively with the program manager and throughout Talent's Teams to synthesize product plans and functional spec to deliver maximum impact
• Contribute to the overall product strategy and roadmap, as well as stay in sync with end-user features and service infrastructure
• Track all defined deliverables from conception through launch, leveraging established processes, tools, and communications mechanisms
• Partner with the CMS product owner to manage Jira across the full ticket lifecycle—ticket assignment, release planning, and sprint planning—keeping the CMS backlog organized, prioritized, and sprint-ready

Skills

• 4+ years of technical program/product management experience with a proven track record of delivering scalable consumer products
• Hands-on experience owning and creating Jira workflows, including ticket assignment, release management, and sprint planning
• Solid understanding of web and mobile technologies, service operations at scale, and general ability to ramp up and go deep in new technical areas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical
• Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly, and collaborative leadership skills to lead a change in direction when needed
• Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing startup environment
• Strong project management, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a proven track record of managing complex projects with many partners
• Demonstrated experience across the entire product lifecycle - from competitive research, ideation, user centered design, specification, architecture and the know-how required to lead your crew to realize your vision
• Exceptional time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and hold them accountable to agreed timelines
• Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes
• Proven experience with the Software and Service Delivery Life cycle with focus on DevOps, design, delivery, and End-To-End Operate and User Scenarios
• A demonstrated ability to anticipate problems and to find resolutions

Benefits

• 100% remote/work-from-home role
• Possibility of Full Time Employment after the 6 month contract

Company Overview

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