Technical Senior Project Manager
Position Summary
Moda Operandi’s Product/Engineering team is looking for a Technical Senior Project Manager who is not afraid to jump in, learn fast and is KPI and results driven. This person will be responsible for keeping the team in lock-step at all times and ensuring timely, successful deliveries. In addition to having a technical knowledge of Product/Engineering, this person will be extremely organized, have A++ communication skills (written and verbal), possess stellar time management abilities and know how to shift priorities as needed.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with Product/Engineering and Supply Chain on cross squad initiatives as well as a larger cross functional role within the company
- Coordinate with teams to ensure a plan is in place and owners are identified for all projects
- Join Product Manager’s weekly meetings with their squads to stay aligned with workflow and pipeline projects
- Lead weekly team meetings with Product Managers, Engineers and Supply Chain Ops
- Draft and distribute meeting recaps to all attendees: dates, items discussed, decisions made, actionable items, next steps and responsible parties + follow-ups on workflow
- You will be the central person to keep everyone in lock step, level set expectations based on priorities and provide visibility into workflow
- Empower the team and drive continuous improvement
- Guide projects through effective change control processes
- Scrub JIRA board with Product Managers and Engineers and consistently reprioritize based on Roadmap and what impacts the business
- Build bi-weekly reporting around department progress on Product/Engineering Roadmap, what is happening on the team, work-streams as well as forecast milestones and share out with key business stakeholders (executive & senior leadership teams)
- Work closely with the Head of Strategic Finance Operations to help refine internal project management process, best practices and build learning/teaching materials as we continue to grow and scale as a company
Who You Are
- 5-7 years experience managing technical web/ecommerce projects as well as an in-depth knowledge of product/engineering and a bonus, supply chain
- Bachelor’s degree
- Solid technical background, with understanding and hands-on experience in software development, web technologies, product development and supply chain
- Experience with both waterfall and Agile (or Agile hybrid) and other project management environments
- Self-motivated, action-driven, highly organized and has strong ownership
- Understand technical terminology but you are able to explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Knowledge in Supply Chain, Data Science, Analytics, eCommerce a plus
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Strong ability to scale and customize project management approach on a project-by-project basis using internal best practices, and some degree of magick
- Confident to speak up and lead the teams
- Master/Magician of project management, time management, workflow and communication (in all forms)
- Strategic in thinking and action
- Approach all situations calm, collected and remain approachable
- Passion for fashion a plus
Technical Skills/Software:
- CRM, NetSuite, JIRA, SLACK, Looker, SQL,
- MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
- Google: Docs, Sheets, Slides
- Would be nice if you are familiar with: Monday, Zendesk, Talk Desk, Responsys
The job description is to be used merely as a guide of expectations rather than an exhaustive list of all duties and competencies. All requirements and skills are subject to change as business needs evolve.
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