Mobile Program Manager
Nexstar
Los Angeles, CAThis was removed by the employer on 6/18/2020 5:32:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
The Mobile Program Manager will be a key member of the project management team, responsible for implementing projects within the mobile product vertical. Reporting to the Director of the Program Management Office, the MPM will work closely with senior stakeholders including Product, Revenue and Operations, Content, Engineering, and Business Development. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, passionate leader from a digital / mobile environment that operates equally as effectively in both independent and team collaboration settings. He/she should have a strong business acumen, solid technology experience, and familiarity with the broadcast industry in addition to possessing excellent project management skills and intimate familiarity with agile Scrum methodologies.
Experience with mobile project management, development, content, and operations for native iOS and Android apps and mobile web experiences is a must, preferably for a media company. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders and collaborate and manage projects within a large geographically diverse company. Experience with OTT and wearables like smart watches is a plus.
Responsibilities
• Work with PMO, Product Management, and Engineering to determine and define project scope, objectives and success criteria for a Project.
• Monitor project resource allocation, hours and burn reports and provide on-going project budget, status, and risk management reports.
• Tracks and provides summary of project status, progress and barriers, maintains comprehensive project documentation.
• Facilitate daily stand up, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and project Kick-Off meetings.
• Participates in Scrum of Scrum Meetings to track dependencies with other PMs at Program level.
• Guides the teams and stakeholders on Process and standards established by PMO.
• Manages and motivates team to be self-organized and achieve target dates.
• Listens well and communicates clearly with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to take a high-level view of involvement across all aspects of the project but without spending significant time on detailed hands-on tasks.
• Must have excellent communication skills; written and verbal.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with distributed teams.
• Top tier professional with 5-7 years of project management experience, Project Coordination, and/or Project Analysis experience in agile development methodologies at scale, specifically Scrum, Lean and/or Kanban.
• Exhibits strong technical, process management and business orientation skills
• A quick learner, who can understand complex requirements and assess dependencies.
• Understand which issues to highlight and bring key decision makers together to come up with effective solutions.
• Experience navigating large, dynamic and complex organizations
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to run efficient and engaging meetings with teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
• Experience with Jira or a similar agile project management tool.
• Scrum Master Certification, CSM or SAFE Agilist certification preferred.
• Experience in Mobile development projects.
• Vendor Management experience is a must.
About Nexstar Digital
Nexstar's digital media products and services focus on providing innovative solutions to audiences, clients and any business looking to gain an edge in the shifting digital landscape. Along with Nexstar's dedication to providing local news, entertainment and sports content through its digital platforms, Nexstar Digital's companies provide digital publishing and content management platforms, a video advertising platform, digital agency services and other digital media solutions to publishers and advertisers.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!