Job Description

9+ month contract role with opportunity to extend

Pay range: $60-65 per hour

Hybrid: 3-4 days a week in Inglewood, CA (90303)

We are seeking a Project Manager to provide program and project management leadership and resources to support our digital product and technology portfolio. We are considering a partnership that can:

• Provide highly skilled program and project management professionals at the scale needed to support the full scope of the digital portfolio.
• Provide highly skilled program and project management professionals to ensure the success of delivery teams operating in various delivery models (e.g. internal vs. outsourced delivery, kanban vs. sprint).
• Provide highly skilled program and project management professionals to enable portfolio governance and resource allocation decisions.

Scope

The Media Product & Technology group possesses a portfolio of fan-facing products, core services, a subscription business, and content that serve our fans and various business partners. The portfolio includes teams across product platforms, Fantasy business, our subscription business, data services, technical services, video and advertising operations and PMO. Program Management and PMO work together to support the delivery of work across contractual media obligations, Operations of Digital Live Content and building experiences for fan facing products. We are looking for the below role to join our Business Operations/Program Management and PMO teams collectively.

Three main qualities for this role: Proactive, High EQ, Detail Driven

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end project management for all Connected TV roadmap initiatives, from concept through launch and post-launch optimization.
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
• Coordinate with internal teams (engineering, UX/UI, content, etc.) and external partners to ensure project milestones are met.
• Monitor and report on project progress, identifying and addressing any issues or roadblocks.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Ensure all projects align with the company’s strategic goals and deliver a high-quality user experience.

Required Qualifications

• Technical Comprehension: understanding of Connected TV platforms, OTT services, and digital media technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proactive and positive mindset to keep teams focused and engaged.
• Strong emotional intelligence and relationship skills.
• Polished leadership presence and experience creating accountability across teams.
• A willingness to play different roles to fill gaps. If they cannot fill the gaps, they are proactively working with leadership and various stakeholders to help fill it.
• A willingness to partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders. Someone who will help solution in addition to driving the team forward.
• Strong facilitation and workshop capabilities to help cross-functional teams define the outcomes and then deliver on those outcomes.
• Experience managing Stakeholder feedback, input, knowledge sessions to inform business requirements.
• Experience with digital product launches including redesigns or rebuilds, specifically CTV.
• Ability to facilitate and solution amongst opposing team views to get to an aligned approach or decision.
• Strong ability to manage decision making process including managing up and holding people accountable to deadlines.
• Solution driven but not afraid to fail and learn from it.
• Strong communication skills based on reading the room, understanding the ask and knowing the audience.
• Work with PMO to deliver required documentation and detail as part of Drive Planning.
• Ability to partner with program management to ensure status and detail are shared and each role complements each other.
• Work with vendor partners to track work across various teams.
• Comfortable working within ambiguity to define and document requirements.
• Holds themselves accountable to their team, the PMO team and the broader department.

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