The Intersect Group is hiring for a Project Manager for a global sports organization. The client has a year around calendar of sports and business events that come with various levels of support needed to be ready across each of our digital properties(App, website, Fantasy App, etc). These include sporting events/milestones such as preseason games, combines and championship games. This also includes various international games, or partner exclusive rights to games. To support these events both contractually and from a fan experience, we are looking for someone who can perform the below functions:
Specific Role Responsibilities:
Lead and facilitate the end-to-end process of ensuring all internal digital media teams are aware of the business requirements of the expected milestone experiences
Facilitate planning and discovery sessions to build out all milestone project timelines and operational readiness plans within tight timelines and under high stress environment
Work across all teams to build out weekly readiness communication as applicable (most of the year)
Navigate the balance of focus between current ongoing events and future planning of events
Manage Stakeholder communication around expected experiences and timelines of those experiences being available to customers and on which digital platforms
Proactively plan against events/milestones utilizing Atlassian suite of tools to clearly articulate when planning should start, how much planning is needed, and who should be involved
Work in partnership with program and other project managers to surface information needed from respective teams to get to detailed documentation and communication plans
Work alongside QA and Operations teams to properly plan and test prior to milestone events taking place
Work with Product Operations team to build out proper runbooks prior to events to include Stakeholder communication, SLA's, on call teams, etc.
Ensure all milestones are accurately reflected within each Drive Planning year around including teams impacted, critical dates and capacity plans
Proactively source information from those around you and by building relationships with teams and individuals
Experience Required:
3-5 years of Digital product experience
Experience in digital live media/sports
Understands football milestones and tracking deliverables against hard dates
3+ years of working within a PMO capacity (client service roles could be considered)
Experience managing various competing Stakeholders
Experience owning processes and systems to support many teams operating in different ways (operational, feature building, testing, etc)
Experience working with seasonal businesses that have hard date driven work is preferred
Experience in fast paced environment and preferably within Live Sports and entertainment
3 days in office/week minimum
Extensive knowledge and experience working with various roadmapping tools and Atlassian Suite of tools