Position: Senior Project Manager for Media Division
Company: GlobalLogic
Experience required: 5y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2020-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our clients are global technology and media companies operating in media domain – digital and movie studios, broadcasters, TV channels and networks, OTT providers, musicians and recording studios.

**Requirements**
- Technical degree (MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering) or 5+ years of experience as a technical project manager.
- Development experience is a must
- Previous experience organizing and/or managing project schedules across multiple development teams and projects
- Expected to manage multiple projects/accounts of different duration
- Strong experience in participating and driving sales activities
- Understanding of media domain and technologies – modern trends, MAM/CMS, OTT, Video processing, content lifecycle, Ads – is a huge plus
- Understanding of Cloud technologies is a big plus
- Communicate and present different points-of-view for projects dependent on an audience
- Thorough understanding of the project life cycle process to effectively manage projects from inception to delivery and rollout
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication, mediation, and conflict resolution skills with the capacity to keep the team motivated and on task.
- Travel (no greater than 2 weeks per quarter) and work with remote teams across multiple time zones required.

**Tools/Skills**
- Clear documentation and planning utilizing common project management and technology tools such as Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, MS Project, Smartsheet and Google suite of documentation (Docs, Sheets, etc).
- Time management skills are a must; being able to work flexible hours across US-based time zones (PST mostly) a requirement.
- Proven ability of technical leadership, inclusive of grooming technical managers and individual contributors
- Experience with agile and waterfall methodologies with knowledge of how best to work critical path tasks

**Personality traits**
- A keen sense of curiosity to learn and absorb information via documentation, and to be able to ask detailed questions as concisely as possible.
- Exemplary organizational and communication skills
- A great attitude, with the capacity to keep the project team motivated and on task
- Mediation and/or conflict resolution skills
- Ability to prioritize, without sacrificing flexibility
- Team player that excels in a collaborative environment

**Responsibilities**
- Participate in sales/pre-sales activities, help to prepare marketing materials
- Develop domain expertise
- Drive PoCs
- Lead critical quarterly product/technology projects from inception to completion, especially those that are initiated or managed through our off-shore resources in Kyiv
- Be a cross-functional leader against these projects, being able to drive the team to resolve open questions, addressing blockers and clarifying scope to ensure project delivery is successful (timely and with given resources allocated)
- Working adjusted hours to be able to communicate and facilitate communications with US-based teams (PST time zone)
- Develop and track against project plans; assess timelines and escalate risks to management
- Drive project team accountability to ensure critical milestones and deadlines are met (engineering and product development)
- Implement, document and update processes to fit the needs of the team
- Work across teams to manage shared resources, interdependencies, and other cross-team timelines
- Identify and keep track of project tasks, risks, system defects, and backlog
- Facilitate project team meetings to identify key action items and blockers
- Primary contact for all phases and components of the project
- Provide appropriate project status visibility for at least two tiers of below resources:
- Team working on a project and immediate project and technical leads
- All involved team leads and project management peers