Technical Project Manager
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VantageRetail media
Toronto - RemoteFull-TimeManager
Salary120,000 - 155,000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementAgileQASCRUMJiraRelease ManagementRESTful APIs
Requirements
- Proven experience managing software or technology projects with engineering teams.
- Expert, hands-on Jira experience with boards, sprints, epics, dependencies, workflows, dashboards and reporting.
- Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum or hybrid delivery methods.
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including QA, UAT and release management.
- Understanding of technical systems, APIs and integrations sufficient to identify risks and engage with engineers.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects across several organizations.
- Ability to identify schedule slippage early and negotiate revised dates with engineers, stakeholders and clients.
- Strong organization, time management and communication skills, including written status reporting to senior management.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.
- Preferred: experience in retail media, advertising or ad tech, or in an account management or other customer-facing role.
- Preferred: PMP, CSM, SAFe or similar certification.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery timelines, plans, milestones and dependencies for software, integration and platform projects with retailer clients.
- Run sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, release planning, UAT and go-live readiness with engineering, product and solutions architecture.
- Identify schedule slippage, assess its cause and impact, and reset dates and expectations with teams and clients.
- Manage cross-team and third-party dependencies, including client-side technical work, and hold owners accountable for deliverables.
- Communicate project status, risks and blockers, and escalate issues to senior management.
- Manage change requests and flag scope, timeline and resourcing trade-offs to leadership.
- Define and share project management practices, including Jira standards, RAID and status reporting, and release processes.
- Run post-launch and post-release retrospectives and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
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