Tech Program Manager

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. We are seeking a program manager to support our engineering and broader teams and bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders to drive the production process towards high quality and on-time feature releases.

Responsibilities

• Technically drive and support engineering team’s goals. Ensure alignment with company goals, working with business owners and internal team leaders 
• Define and maintain multiple project schedules, timelines, and communication artifacts. Partner with internal dev teams and external parties to deliver on time and with the quality required
• Provide hands-on program management during analysis, design, development, testing, release, and post release phases
• Efficiently allocate resources to ensure efficient execution
• Do critical path analysis and identify risks and blockers, suggest mitigations and guide the team to remove blockers
• Identify decisions required to move a project forward, determine the decision makers, and ensure decisions are made. Assume responsibility and drive ownership for issue resolution
• Detail-oriented and adept at following-up with others to drive deliverables to completion
• Ensure engineering team is set up for success, utilizing best practices in agile / scrum, and using appropriate tools such as JIRA. Embed within team as necessary to do so
• Autonomously drive change initiatives across multiple functions throughout the organization
• Continuously monitor and improve the effectiveness of our processes to increase speed to launch and quality of service

Requirements

• Strong understanding of agile development process
• 3+ years of experience leading planning, project lifecycles, and workflows in a dynamic engineering organization
• Computer Science degree and / or several years of work experience as a software engineer highly preferred
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
• The technical acumen to understand and influence decisions made on architecture and implementation by the engineering teams.
• Expertise with project management tracking tools such as Jira, Shotgun, Asana, Trello, Microsoft Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong ability to influence across multiple teams
• Operate successfully in ambiguous environments
• Ability to handle multiple contending priorities simultaneously in an exciting environment
• Avid interest in the possibilities of Augmented and Virtual Reality.