Technical Program Manager with Data Engineer & Media

Technical Program Manager with Data Engineer background + Media + Some sort of AI Exp

Contract

Location Los Angeles, CA / New York City, NY / San Francisco, CA

NOTE: Initially remote for 1 to 2 months, later on candidate have to be onsite

Mandate Skills Technical Program Manager with Media & Data Engineer background

Job Description

• Professional Experience: 7+ years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or Software Engineering.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience serving as a TPM or Scrum Master specifically within a Data Engineering department.
• Product Delivery Models: Strong understanding of traditional program management, SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks, coupled with expertise in Jira administration and workflow management.
• Program Management Expertise: Expert in dependency management, risk management, and delivery projects from end to end.
• Program Leadership: Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs involving multiple distributed teams.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional stakeholder coordination, facilitation, and problem-solving abilities.

Proactive Delivery & Execution Ownership

• Drive End-to-End Delivery: Own the execution of technical initiatives, translating high-level objectives into actionable plans and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Accelerate Progress: Actively remove impediments and "ruthlessly prioritize" the backlog to ensure the team remains focused on critical-path items that drive business value.
• Ceremony Leadership: Lead key Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and manage the intake of ad-hoc items alongside major initiatives.
• Queue Management: Monitor incoming request queues, surfacing new items to engineering to ensure they are tracked, estimated, and prioritized.

2. Technical SME & Risk Management

• Technical Subject Matter Expertise: Become deeply familiar with the data architecture, system designs, and products of your teams to identify technical risks like architectural debt or integration issues early.
• Strategic Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and document risks and dependencies, developing and executing detailed mitigation plans before they become crises.

Decision Support: Convene the right technical experts to drive resolution on escalated issues and challenge assumptions to ensure technical feasibility.