Optomi has partnered with a global entertainment leader to find their next Program Manager. responsible for driving efficiency and coordination across multiple technical teams. This role is critical in supporting the Events & Signals Platform team, which decouples backend services from incoming client signals, delivering enriched and targeted event streams to backend teams.
The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of technical program management experience in the software industry, strong leadership skills, and a proven ability to deliver high-priority projects in Agile environments.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical program management support for the Events & Signals Platform engineering team.
Manage three technical teams and oversee all scrum ceremonies and release support.
Lead planning meetings, scrum ceremonies, and facilitate cross-functional coordination to align stakeholders and engineering teams.
Proactively work with product management and stakeholders to define project scope, prioritize initiatives, and effectively communicate requirements to drive projects forward.
Develop and implement processes with engineering teams to improve efficiency and ensure the success of high-priority initiatives.
Maintain program tracking and reporting, ensuring full visibility at all levels within the organization.
Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks to both internal and external partners.
Ensure Jira, managing ticketing, tagging, and releases for all initiatives.
Create and maintain Jira reports, dashboards, and burndowns to track progress and velocity.
Serve as a key counterpart to the Events & Signals Platform engineering managers and other team members, demonstrating technical adeptness to facilitate effective discussions.
Cultivate strong relationships with stakeholders, aligning program goals with both short- and long-term organizational objectives.
Oversee schedule management and capacity planning to ensure timely delivery within project scope while managing competing priorities.
Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in Technical Project/Program Management within the software industry.
Extensive experience managing multiple technical teams, scrum teams, and the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including release management for both backend services and consumer-facing software.
Proficiency with Agile and other software development methodologies.
Expertise in using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence for generating reports, creating dashboards, tracking burndowns, and managing team velocity.
Proven ability to lead effective meetings, plan project deliverables, document decisions, and follow up with teams.
Strong skills in project tracking, reporting, and communication at various levels of an organization.
Initiative-driven, with a proactive approach to program leadership and process development, consistently improving project workflows and team efficiency.
Excellent soft skills, including meeting facilitation, communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.
Ability to quickly learn and adapt to technical systems and issues with enthusiasm.
A positive attitude, capable of delivering results through ambiguity and maintaining focus in challenging situations.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with platform services that handle real-time data, user signals, or event-driven architecture.
Familiarity with decoupling backend services and building enriched event streams for backend teams.