Digital Marketing Technical Project Manager - New York, NY (Onsite)

Job Title: Digital Marketing Technical Project Manager

Location: New York, NY

Job Summary

• Seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Project Manager to join our dynamic cross-functional team.
• In this role, you will lead and manage technical delivery and supporting backend data processing, which is critical to the overall success of an email program that delivers over 100 million emails a year.
• You will partner closely with engineering, project management, and operations teams—both onshore and offshore—to deliver a scalable and secure data platform.
• For this role, the ideal candidate must demonstrate strong expertise in integrated data processing and data relationships, with a clear understanding of both their technical underpinnings and their application within business contexts.
• This is a unique position that intertwines multiple disciplines of hands-on technical project manager along with business analyst with strong client-facing and presentation skills.
• They should also be able to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, and would have held a similar role in an agency or corporate marketing organization.
• It is critical for the candidate to be a self-starter able to work independently, be comfortable with rapid change, and manage their tasks to meet deadlines.
• It is imperative that you have a deep sense of curiosity about all components of the program(s) you engage with – beyond your specific tasks and role - for understanding, the ability to identify potential risks and cross-impacts.

 Key Responsibilities

Technical Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery and support of the data from client delivery through generating individual campaign lists
• Own technical scope, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and risk management for platform initiatives
• Translate business and marketing requirements into clear technical deliverables and work plans
• Translate technical requirements into clear and easily understood contexts for clients and internal stakeholders

Microsoft Tech Stack & AWS Expertise

• Lead projects leveraging Microsoft Tech Stack, specifically involving backend batch jobs and SQL Database interactions, as well as AWS services such as EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, and monitoring/logging tools
• Collaborate with Infra, Ops, and Security teams to ensure reliability, performance, and compliance

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate delivery with onshore development teams, ensuring client deliverables are met
• Work closely with PMO, QA, Operations, Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Act as the primary technical liaison among senior leadership, project managers, vendors, and internal teams

Governance, Quality & Operations

• Enforce SDLC processes, agile/waterfall delivery practices, and PMO governance standards
• Assist with QA processes, testing cycles, defect management, and release readiness
• Support production deployments, post-launch stabilization, and operational handovers

 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in software or web application development
• 3+ years of experience in a Technical Project Manager or Technical Delivery Lead role
• Strong understanding of database development concepts, including:
• Strong proficiency in data modelling principles
• Database development
• Experience maintaining large-scale, multi-sourced customer data platforms in regulated or enterprise environments
• Takes initiative to learn the business and the ways data is utilized across functions
• Good understanding of digital marketing concepts
• Proven experience with cloud-native architectures, preferably within the AWS ecosystem
• Experience working with distributed teams across geographies and time zones
• Experience with Confluence to create/maintain technical documentation
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical documentation skills

 Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with email campaigns
• Good understanding of RDBMS concepts
• Experience with Project Management tools such as Adobe Workfront
• Exposure to DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices

 Key Competencies

• Strong communication skills with clients and internal teams
• Technical leadership and problem-solving
• Strategic thinking with strong execution skills
• Proactive approach to learning the business environment
• Ability to bridge business, marketing, and engineering priorities
• Strong organization, risk management, and decision-making capabilities
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, matrixed environments