SEEKING: Senior Technical Project Manager (contract)
Company: Tree House Interactive, Inc.
Contact: gero@treehousemail.net
Who we are:
As consultants, we are passionate about CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION.
Our specialties include UX DESIGN, STRATEGY, and PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
We provide on-site and remote consulting services to some of the biggest names in luxury and beauty. Our client portfolio includes Fortune 500 companies whose products are probably in your home—or on your person—right now.
What we look for:
– A hunger to learn
– The vision to see opportunities in challenges
– The drive to deliver the best possible solution for the problem
– Goodness
What we are recruiting for now:
Senior Technical Project Manager
Description
The Senior Technical Project Manager will work on-site for one of our luxury ecommerce client-partners. He/she will be responsible for ensuring technical projects are delivered from Initiation through deployment on time, within budget, at a high level of quality, via managing the internal teams, vendors, and external resources.
- Experience with Sterling OMS a plus
- Experience working with other OMS a plus
Responsibilities:
- Run complex technology-based projects/programs from design and development through to production.
- Define requirements, create specifications and schedule, testing and implementation and plan project lifecycle deployment.
- Maintain project st
- Analyze project to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- Demonstrate ability to create and prioritize technical schedules in response to immediate requirements, while not losing sight of strategic goals and architectural integrity and longevity.
- Manage conflicts within group between cross-functional teams.
- Efficiently identify and solve project issues.
- Ensure that deviations from project schedules are addressed and communicated.
- Create and maintain technical and project documentation.
- Strong organizational and presentation skills.
- Present regular executive summaries to Director of Infrastructure.
- Work with and be able to manage globally distributed teams
- Work with the minimum amount of supervision
- Effectively manage and communicate technical schedules, deliverables and milestones both internally and externally.
- Ensure that resources have a clear view of the big picture, including internal and external deliverables and expectations.
- Manage and facilitate communication between internal and external stakeholders with vastly different levels of technical abilities
Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Project Management and Technology based development / support with specific focus on:
- Working Knowledge of various Software Development lifecycles
- Hardware Infrastructure and Systems
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong command of English language, both oral and written
- Excellent self-tasking and team work skills
- Excellent communication and motivation skills
- Ability to interact appropriately with senior level colleagues, vendors, and partners
- Experience delivering enterprise-wide solutions
- Demonstrated experience of increasing responsibilities managing complex information technology infrastructure related projects and experience utilizing a structured project management methodology and formal tools/approaches is required
- Excellent understanding of and experience with implementation of software applications, including familiarity with data integration issues and ongoing operational considerations
- Strong multitasking skills and attention to detail; position will require simultaneous oversight of many projects with individual goals and deadlines across a variety of genres.
- Practical experience with one or more of the following preferred:
o Knowledge of e-Commerce systems
o Knowledge of Compliance Standards and auditing (PCI / SOX)
- Experience managing onshore and offshore development projects with extensive communication, risk management, and project reporting experience.
- Highly organized and extremely detail oriented
- Good understanding of the web and mobile technologies such as HTML, HTML5, AJAX, PERL, HTTP, XML, etc.
- Experience with software such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Excel, etc.
- Familiarity with issues management software such as Basecamp, Jira, Bugzilla, etc.
- Ability to meet project requirements and deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-time-zoned, multi-lingual environment
- Excellent analytic and organizational skills, including the proven ability to manage multiple projects in different stages of deployment simultaneously
- Must be proactive, responsive, customer-service oriented and lead with a sense of ownership and accountability
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent practical experience
Contact: gero@treehousemail.net
