Technical Project Manager 4

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

The Technical Project Manager 4 is a key member of the global Engineering operations team at FreeWheel reporting to the Executive Director of Engineering Ops. FreeWheel has 5 platforms and many sub teams within each. Employing a consistent approach to the planning and execution process across all platforms is critically important to ensure optimal quality and reliable communication (e.g., progress of work, release communications).

As a Technical Project Manager, you are assigned a platform and play a vital role as a trusted partner to advise and guide efficient planning and execution activities within that platform. This role will support Beeswax, Freewheel’s buying platform (Demand Side Platform). You will face “inward” as part of a centralized Engineering Ops TPM team in the shaping of standard operating practices, and then “outward” to your assigned platform to educate and drive the adoption of those practices. You provide consultative, practical, and hands-on services that support the product and engineering stakeholders, listening to their needs and proactively addressing them through a process of continuous improvement. There will also be roadmap projects that you help organize and drive the team to completion. You will interact with a mix of stakeholders across the product and engineering disciplines at all levels, including senior leaders. You will have a direct and meaningful impact on helping your assigned platform team efficiently and predictably deliver quality software.

Job Description

Primary Duties and Responsibilities    

The Platform TPM performs a wide range of duties including some or all the following:   

Platform Team Planning and Execution   

• Be a trusted partner within your assigned platform; enthusiastically dive in and get your hands dirty while at the same time encouraging (and sometimes enforcing) the teams to plan and execute their work efficiently and responsibly following standards, best practices, and established business rules.  
• Ensure that engineering activities (primarily in Jira) are accurately maintained in our systems of record, including status updates, linking to roadmap (in Aha), etc. Here, too, there will be a combination of hands-on contribution to maintaining the integrity of our product and engineering …