Technical Project Manager

Description:

Our client is seeking a web-savvy Technical Project Manager to join its team and manage multiple projects across a robust consumer vertical. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills in software project management and web technologies while working on high traffic, consumer-facing websites.

Responsibilities:

• General management of web projects.
• Work with product, business, and development to effectively drive projects from concept to launch.
• Work with internal development team to execute against requirements.
• Ensure projects are launched according to published schedules.
• Keep business owners up to date on project status and potential issues.
• Resolve project, design, or resource issues before they cause schedule delays.
• Enhance project management process to accommodate rapidly changing software needs.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2+ years of experience in a web project coordinator or manager role, or equivalent experience leading development teams.
• Understanding of project processes (scheduling, documentation, risk analysis, and contingency planning).
• Strong understanding of development process, including development, testing, and deployment, as well as work breakdown, dependencies, responsibilities (full SDLC).
• Working experience with highly customizable/configurable CMS highly preferred (eg. Drupal).
• Proficiency in AGILE/SCRUM methodologies.
• Understanding and experience in UI/UX best practices.
• Strong working knowledge of web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of Search Engine Optimization/Marketing principles and best practices.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong ability to use/manage project management tracking/reporting tools (eg. JIRA).
• Ability to wireframe/mockup solutions (eg. Axure, Balsamiq, invisionapp).
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and organizational skills.
• Highly analytical, logical, and good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interact professionally with all levels of staff.
• Consumer-facing web company experience is a plus.
• Consumer-facing windows desktop application experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Adobe creative suite a plus.