Tech Project Manager, Video Platforms

Versant•New York, NY

23h•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager, Video Platforms is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day planning and execution of technology projects across VERSANT’s video platform ecosystem. Working closely with Video Platform Engineering, Product, Operations, and Portfolio Management, this role drives project schedules, tracks milestones and dependencies, facilitates cross-functional delivery, and ensures risks, decisions, and action items are clearly managed. The position supports initiatives spanning video publishing, streaming, playback, metadata, content delivery, advertising, and distribution, with a strong focus on execution discipline, operational readiness, and timely delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
4+ years of experience in technical project management, project management, delivery management, or a related role.
Experience managing technology projects involving multiple engineering, product, operations, and business teams.
Strong experience building and maintaining project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers.
Experience coordinating software, platform, infrastructure, or digital technology delivery.
Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
Strong organizational and follow-through skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, or comparable project management tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting streaming video, OTT, digital media, video publishing, or content delivery platforms.
Familiarity with video technologies and workflows such as encoding, transcoding, playback, DRM, metadata, CDN delivery, and live streaming.
Experience supporting production launches, platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, or live-event readiness.
Experience working with Portfolio Management, PMO, or centralized planning functions.
Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern software delivery practices.
Experience in media, entertainment, sports, news, streaming, or digital publishing environments.
PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or similar project management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage the execution of video platform projects from planning through implementation and launch.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items.
Coordinate work across Engineering, Product, Operations, Infrastructure, Editorial, Advertising, and external technology partners.
Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and status checkpoints.
Track progress against committed timelines and ensure project owners are aligned on deliverables and next steps.
Escalate schedule, scope, resource, or technical risks when appropriate.
Ensure project decisions, requirements, and delivery commitments are clearly documented.
Support projects across video ingestion, encoding and transcoding, metadata, playback, content delivery, streaming, and distribution capabilities.
Coordinate technical delivery activities across multiple platform and application teams.
Support launch planning for new platform capabilities, migrations, upgrades, and major releases.
Coordinate operational readiness activities, including testing, deployment planning, support coverage, documentation, and handoffs to operations teams.
Support readiness planning for high-profile live events and other business-critical video initiatives.
Help ensure changes are aligned with established release, change management, and production support processes.
Serve as a central project coordination point between technical teams and business stakeholders.
Partner with Product Managers and engineering leads to translate requirements and priorities into executable project plans.
Coordinate dependencies between Video Platforms and adjacent teams such as Cloud, Networking, Data, Ad Technology, Content Management, and Digital Operations.
Work with external vendors and technology partners to track deliverables, dependencies, and issue resolution.
Facilitate timely decisions by ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into project status, risks, and open questions.
Partner with the Portfolio Management team to ensure project schedules, status, milestones, and risks are accurately reflected in portfolio planning and reporting.
Provide project-level updates and delivery forecasts for portfolio and leadership reviews.
Support intake and planning activities by providing project scope, sequencing, dependency, and delivery information.
Maintain accurate project information across Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, or similar tools.
Prepare concise status reports, dashboards, and leadership updates.
Proactively identify and track project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints.
Drive follow-up and resolution of open actions across participating teams.
Maintain risk, issue, and decision logs and ensure appropriate escalation.
Coordinate mitigation and contingency plans for critical milestones and launches.
Support retrospectives and post-launch reviews to identify opportunities for process and execution improvements.