Senior Technical Project Manager I

Grocery TV•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We're hiring a Technical Project Manager to own delivery of our most complex cross-functional work, reporting to the Head of Product and Data. Our programs rarely live inside one team. A single launch can touch hardware in hundreds of stores, the content scheduling platform, data pipelines, measurement methodology, a partner's API, and a retailer's rollout calendar. You'll be the person who turns that into a plan, keeps it honest, and gets it shipped. This is a hands-on role for someone with a real technical background. You won't write production code, but you'll be expected to understand the architecture well enough to challenge an estimate, spot a hidden dependency, and explain a technical tradeoff to a sales leader or a retail partner in plain language.

Requirements

5+ years delivering technical work, with at least 3 in a project, program, or delivery lead role.
A hands-on technical foundation, ideally time spent as a software or data engineer. You can read an architecture diagram, reason about APIs and data pipelines, and tell a sound estimate from a hopeful one.
A track record shipping complex programs across engineering, data, design, and business stakeholders, including at least one where scope, people, or priorities shifted midstream.
Clear, concise writing. Your status updates get read, and your plans answer questions before they're asked.
Fluency with Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban) and the judgment to use only as much process as the work needs.
Comfort with budgets, capacity planning, and scoping work against real constraints.
Experience working directly with clients or external partners. A consulting or agency background is a strong plus.

Nice To Haves

Experience in retail media, adtech, or digital out-of-home (DOOH).
Background with IoT, connected devices, or managing hardware deployed in the field.
Familiarity with data platforms and BI tools (Omni, Looker, dbt, Snowflake, or similar).
Exposure to measurement, attribution, or experimentation work.
Experience building a program management practice or delivery playbook from scratch.
Experience with AI-assisted delivery workflows and a point of view on where they help.

Responsibilities

Own delivery end to end. Take multi-team programs from scoping through launch across our device platform, content and scheduling systems, data infrastructure, measurement, and partner integrations.
Turn priorities into plans. Break roadmap goals into milestones with clear owners, dependencies, and dates, and keep them current as things change.
Run the operating rhythm. Lead planning, status, and risk reviews. Keep our project tracking (Linear) accurate enough that leadership can trust it without asking.
Surface risk early. Flag slips before they happen and come with options and tradeoffs, not just a red status.
Coordinate partner and customer technical work. Scope and track retailer rollouts, pilots, and integrations with ad servers, SSPs, and data partners. Support technical answers for RFIs and RFPs.
Translate between worlds. Bridge Engineering and Data with Sales, RevOps, and Account teams so commitments made to customers match what we can actually build.
Report upward. Write concise weekly summaries for executive leadership on progress, risks, and decisions needed.
Improve how we work. Build and refine the templates, health checks, and playbooks that make delivery repeatable as the team grows.