Program Manager

Job Description

This position is part of the Global Program Management team. Responsibilities including scope, delivery schedules and budgets in addition to identifying dependencies, managing risks and quantifying business impact. This role collaborates with Product, Engineering and QA to understand and rationalize strategic roadmaps while providing easy to understand, transparent reporting to leadership during delivery.

This role will support the Distribution Media Asset Management (DMAM) team. The DMAM portfolio underpins a critical set of enterprise capabilities that enable end-to-end content workflows across both the News, Sports and General Entertainment business. These capabilities span content ingestion, preparation, processing, and multi-platform distribution, forming the operational backbone for delivering high-quality media efficiently and at scale.

Within the Business Operations organization the Technical Program Manager is responsible for managing small through large-scale, complex projects in the Software Engineering area from initiation through closure. These initiatives will involve daily hands-on management of technology activities utilizing Agile and Scrum based software development practices; and may include working with other technical teams to effectively deliver business solutions. This role requires a wide range of leadership competencies, technical (PM) experience and communications skills. Responsible for managing projects using processes, tools and methodologies, which includes the development of the scope of work and the management of time, cost, risk, and communications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage experience with Agile and SCRUM methodologies to lead project teams on a daily basis to the successful delivery of software development projects. Plan, coordinate and direct all activities associated with creating and maintaining project plans, communication plans, risks/issues, etc.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define program scope, functional requirements, team deliverables, dependencies, time frames, and risks for the project or program.

• Estimate, manage and track the program financial forecasts and budgets.

• Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos for multiple teams.

• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

• Track and report slippages with workable mitigation plans.

• Build strong relationships across engineering, product and stakeholder teams.

• Coach teams on Agile efficiency, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.

• Use data-driven approach, tools and techniques (i.e. Jira native Burndown Charts, Epic Reports, Version Reports) to maintain metrics that provide visibility for the team and use those metrics to identify team needs.

• Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on a timely delivery.

• Identify and manage issues and risks and drive decision making.

• Ability to work with minimal direction.

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Skills and Requirements

• Position will be located in Glendale, CA (In office 4 days a week)

• 5+ years of experience managing software development projects.

• Knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.

• Hands-on experience with the software development life cycle.

• Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate. • CSM / CSP Certification preferred with thorough understanding of Scrum Agile Methodologies