Sr. Technical Program Manager

Company: INSPYR Solutions
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Senior Technical Program Manager

Check you match the skill requirements for this role, as well as associated experience, then apply with your CV below.
Industry: Entertainment
Duration: 24 months
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Rate Range: $80-$91/hr
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Qualified candidates please send Resume directly to Jenna Hinkle at jhinkle@inspyrsolutions.com.

Description:
This is a contractor position within Technology: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization, supporting our Ad Platforms technology group. The Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of complex programs that may span several areas of Ad Platforms, or may cut across the department and other Technology groups.

This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules, deliverables, and dependencies

Responsibilities:
--- Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, priority programs
--- Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies
--- Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
--- Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership
--- Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables
--- Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan
--- Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
--- Perform capacity planning for teams
--- Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
--- Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies
--- Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
--- Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management
--- Effortlessly sift through "noise" and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results
--- Effectively drive progress, even when the scope of responsibilities may be unclear
--- Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs
--- Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable
--- May manage Agile ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level

Preferred Qualifications:
--- 5+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
--- Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
--- Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile
--- Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
--- Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)

Preferred Qualifications:
--- Experience working in a media technology environment
--- Ad tech domain knowledge, or demonstrated aptitude for learning a technology-based engineering domain
--- Formal project management certifications

Required Education
--- BA/BS or equivalent experience required

Our benefits package includes: Comprehensive medical benefits
Competitive pay
401(k) retirement plan
...and much more!


About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities

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