Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager

Online advertising is set to become a $100 billion market. Our Advertising Technologies group is building the infrastructure to meet the needs of advertisers and publishers in this rapidly changing industry.

We are seeking a talented, technically deep and highly motivated technical program manager.

- This person will be a key part of the leadership team for ad policing contributing to the long term vision of the platform and owning the project roadmap.

- In this role, you will identify opportunities to drive innovative product and program enhancements which improve the customer experience provided by company's advertising technology, creating more value for increased customer activation and site monetization.

- The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in at least some of the following areas: machine learning, model building and algorithm development, building and scaling very large data processing platforms using distributed computing technologies such as Map/Reduce, transactional systems and data persistence using RDBMS, online high throughput large scale webservices using open source technologies.

Key Responsibilities

- Be primary point of contact for business, operational and technical teams to to define and drive improvements to new and existing product features and processes.

- Create product requirements based on business and technical needs including user-stroies, process and requirements documents.

- Digs deep in to the metrics to understand performance and identify opportunities and challenges.

- Develops models to quickly and accurately test and measure new ideas to determine effectiveness

- Anticipates bottlenecks, provides escalation management, and makes tradeoffs by balancing the business needs against technical constraints.

- Identifies, assesses, tracks and mitigates issues and risks at multiple levels.

- Creates, maintains and disseminates project information to stakeholders in a concise, accurate, and professional manner

- Works with development and research team to ensure that the teams meet product and process launch deadlines. Holds himself/herself and tech and operations teams accountable to product/process delivery dates

Basic Qualification:

Following are the qualifications that would allow somebody to hit the ground running :

Qualifications

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required. An MBA is desirable.

- 3+ years experience in technical program management is required; experience in the online marketing /advertising industry is desired

- A solid CS foundation, including at least 2+ years of experience in a software engineering role.

- Strong oral and written communication skills and an ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize.

- A solid experience and track record of successful system implementations utilizing multiple project management methodologies, tools and techniques.

- An ability to conduct and/or oversee user interface design, usability testing, requirements definition, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, and launch efforts.

- A strong familiarity with agile development methodologies.

- Sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong technical acumen, and strong analytical thinking skills

- A willingness to dive into software environments and technical issues to develop and maintain the skills necessary to manage and advocate products and projects

Mail at gunjan@wengerwatson.com