Technical Program Manager (Media & Entertainment)

Job Title: Technical Program Manager (Media & Entertainment)
Job Location: Los Angeles, CA
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

1. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager (Scrum Master) who is passionate about large scale video ecosystems and cares about quality alignment and the overall seamless delivery of best-in-class consumer applications
   As a TPM SM within VTG you'll be responsible for evangelizing PMO best practices across the organization and will be partnering with Product Engineering Managers who are building the video processing pipelines for the streaming platforms and will assist them navigate the backlog identifying and removing impediments You will assist scrum teams to reach high productivity and velocity by coaching and facilitating all scrum agile practices
2. Your Day-to-day
   Leading day-to-day ceremonies tracking team health with metrics
   Drive cross team communication and transparency by providing accurate and proactive project tracking to the larger organization.
   Participate in quarterly bigroom planning coordinate with the rest of the PMO to account for cross team dependencies and coach teams towards responsible quarterly commitments
   Identify track and remove impediments that may impact team velocity and deliverables
   As needed manage the execution of deliverables track milestones manage risk and provide program reports to stakeholders
3. Required Qualifications
   5 years of experience as a technical program manager scrum master
   Experience with Agile software development methodologies in a large enterprise environment where Agile practices are scale as well as with traditional project management
   Experience using Jira GitHub integrations and Confluence Google Workspace
4. Desired Qualifications or You might also have
   Experience working with video engineering teams and ideally streaming video
   Technical knowledge of video engineering video compression AAC video and audio codec standards LIVE and VOD content delivery as well as Adtech integration CSAI SSAI
   Technical understanding of iOS Android and Roku platforms
   Experience managing and mitigating device fragmentation challenges across diverse hardware profiles
   Ability to drive project velocity and documentation as well as Release Management Stakeholder Management working across multiple teams and the ability to adapt quickly to business requirements
   Experience working in the Media Entertainment industry
   Bachelors degree ideally in a technical or product development related field

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Project Planning, Quality Management, Resource Management