Contract Technical Project Manager

Career.io•,

7d•Remote

About The Position

Careerminds is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Technical Project Manager to join their Product development team. This role will be responsible for developing plans, coordinating across multiple product pods, and working with product owners, product managers, and the program manager. The Technical Project Manager will monitor the progress of various initiatives, develop an effective reporting process to track progress, manage blockers, and produce stakeholder reports. This is a 6-month contract position with the possibility of full-time employment and is a 100% remote role.

Requirements

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

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