Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Rootshell Enterprise Technologies Inc. is a recognized provider of professional IT Consulting services in the US. We are actively seeking a Technical Project Manager role for one of our direct clients.

Role: Technical Project Manager

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Duration: Long term

Job Description:

• You will help lead the business planning process, leading conversations with key customers to develop concepts for critical initiatives, and developing those into detailed program/project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning and hiring goals).

• Collaborate with product pillar teams and other key functions to ensure alignment and streamlined execution of multiple concurrent projects.

• Partner with relevant partners to develop program milestones, track progress, handle cross-team dependencies, mitigate risks and run cross-team communications.

• Team up with Eng leaders and drive solutions to highly technical problems.

• Proactively remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress. Identify communication gaps, lead issue resolutions and provide support to teams balancing contending priorities. Get results proactively.

• Continuously improve and scale the organization. Implement improvements to the engineering organization and the program management process.

• Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and standard methodologies that can be adopted throughout the organization. Improve product development and delivery.

• Mentor project management skills within our engineering leadership team.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and exceptional emotional intelligence.

• Strong cross-team and cross-org partner management. Ability to influence, empower, and align people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships.

• Strong organizational skills to prioritize projects without losing sight of the highest priority items. Be good at facilitating discussions.

• Analytical and truth-seeking. Ability to understand complex concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.

• Excellent in identifying process gaps, measuring progress, and balancing engineering and product efficiency with process overhead.

• Experience in building and maintaining large infrastructure systems at scale.

• Experience with Container & Software networking and knowledge of industry trends in these areas.

• Experience with system-level improvements in large-scale systems - efficiency, reliability, performance, etc.