Manager/Senior Manager - Mobile Applications Development

Job Description:

The Mobile Application Development Manager will manage a team of software developers in an innovative and fast-paced environment. He/she will be responsible for planning, successful execution and ongoing support of complex development projects for smart phone, tablet, smart TV and game console apps.

Project Responsibilities

- Work closely with product management, internal client, design, user experience and other development and support groups to build highest quality products for our client's consumers.

- Drive development to planned timeline, ensuring early and regular communication through all stages of development.

- Drive consolidation of products to utilize common underlying technology architecture and components.

- Attend scope meetings, review scopes for estimate accuracy and technical correctness.

- Promote best practice development habits and highest product quality standards through regular code reviews and open team communication.

- Manage work intake through Scrum agile development process, including sprint planning, effort estimation and change management, improving processes to maximize team performance.

- Maintain and enhance existing products, balancing schedules among maintenance activities and new product development.

- Create and document technical requirements, project plan, user stories, solution architecture, change requests, release notes, monitoring process, root cause analyses, etc. in partnership with product management, project management and other teams.

Team Responsibilities

- Create learning opportunities within the development team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects.

- Create opportunities that bring out creativity and passion in work.

- Build out the team by hiring top talent with shared values to support growing demand.

- Demonstrate problem solving, initiative and technical innovation capable of "rolling-up sleeves and getting hands dirty" from content creation, to production support, to testing.

- Build and maintain deep technical skills in iOS, Android, Windows 8, Xbox, HTML5, social and gaming, staying current with recent and upcoming changes to core technologies.

Preferred technical skills:

XCode, Instruments, Objective C, Android SDK, Java, Windows Metro Style App development, Game Development, Audio/Video Streaming, HTML5, JavaScript, JSON, XML, PHP, Analytics Integration, Ad Integration, Experience troubleshooting for mobile browsers.

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