Technical Project Manager

Technical Project MangerSeattle, WA- HybridA Technical Project Manager reports to the PMO while partnering with the engineering manager; our TPMs play a critical role in structuring and executing impactful cross-org initiatives. You will have the opportunity to refine our processes around delivery while building a sense of community and engagement within our talented group of engineers.

TPMs have a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to learn more, both within their teams’ product space and across the department and division. They are proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable quickly switching roles and adapting to changing priorities. They thrive in ambiguity and deliver exceptional results despite frequently changing priorities and direction.

You should bring a passion for collaboration and team building to help evolve and optimize process and product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational resources while helping to drive teams towards commitments
• Foster cross-team coordination and communication
• Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager
• Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
• Lead agile ceremonies as required for one to two teams of engineers
• Develop fundamental technical understanding of the tools and services vended by your team
• Partner with engineering leadership to define roadmaps, scope deliverables, and track high-impact metrics measuring team performance, health, and engineering velocity.
• Lead discussions with senior leadership regarding prioritization, roadmap planning, roadmap execution, and fulfillment of Objectives and Key Results.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrable experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
• Deep-rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams
• Detail-oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation
• Track record of creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team’s current engagements and advocating for future work.
• Experience in leading teams through improvement via process re-engineering
• Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
• Tools expertise including Airtable, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Google Suite, and Slack/MS Teams or similar
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
• Working understanding of cloud- based development and a desire to know more
• Experience as a scrum master and knowledge of agile methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree required

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management certification(s)
• Working understanding of AWS and cloud-based development, and a desire to know mor
• Familiarity with large-scale observability and data tooling such as Datadog, including metrics pipelines, event streaming, and distributed systems
• Experience with modern data science practices, including model development workflows, advanced AI development using large language models (LLMs) and neural networks.