Technical Project Manager

Role: Technical Project Manager
Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week)
Contract Duration: 6 months+ (with a possibility of Contract-to-Hire)
Work Schedule : 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri)
Work Hours: 9-5pm PST
Location : 100% Remote (Candidates can work from anywhere in Karnataka, India)

Duties/Day to Day Overview:

Drive the end-to-end delivery of technical PLG initiatives across the full engineering stack

Work with Technical Leads on Engineering design decisions, and contribute to architectural design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards

Partner with Product Management, Engineering, UX, Marketing, Sales, Support, Legal, Finance, and IT to deliver best-in-class experience for our customers

Keep leadership and business teams updated on project timelines and results

Identify program dependencies based on a thorough understanding of existing technical systems design

Define end-to-end launch plan, ensuring Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Support, Legal, and Finance dependencies are represented

Partner with Product Management and Engineering leads to facilitate continuous roadmap planning

Define communication plan for programs

Lead communication within the team and to stakeholders at cross-functional meetings

Ensure adherence to Project Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle while maintaining visibility to Release Management

Identify and track risks to project delivery and overall program schedule

Work with cross-team leadership to conduct Level of Effort estimation and resource planning. This includes understanding the details of engineering efforts based on the architecture and development

Evaluate existing processes and procedures

Make recommendations and drive process improvement and adoption of best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness

Conduct change management efforts of moderate complexity

Must Haves:

Bachelors or Masters, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, Electronics/Electrical, or equivalent technical work experience

8+ years supporting/leading cross-functional, global programs

Experience working closely with engineering teams for development and launch of large complex programs

Experience using Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet

Experience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Design, Research, Engineering, IT, Operations, Legal, Security, Marketing, Sales and Customer Support

Solid understanding of eCommerce foundational concepts

Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and delivering solutions

Skilled at dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly growing and changing environment

Ability to lead without authority to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

Ability to develop strong cross-team relationships and partnerships

Strong communication and negotiation skills

Confident in working with Executive team members

Experience in a company that has scale or experience in both small and large software development organizations