Technical Program Manager

Amagi Media Labs is rapidly disrupting the TV broadcasting Industry as we know it. Founded in 2008, Amagi is now the largest TV AD Network with over 30 million advertising seconds and more than 400 TV channels working on Amagi’s Cloud Infrastructure and managed playout servers. To know more about what Amagi does please visit [hidden]

Technical Program Manager Job Description

Amagi is looking to expand its project/program management team responsible for managing end to end development and delivery of various ongoing software development programs and initiatives within Amagi. We are looking for people who are process oriented, have a strong technology background, who have experience in executing and managing large software projects in the past. The software development projects under execution are largely in the intersection of media and cloud technology domains.

Responsibilities

End-to-end ownership of multiple short term and long term product development and delivery initiatives for Amagi's key products

Working closely with cross-functional teams like engineering, product, quality assurance, operations and customer success teams.

Articulating and defining program milestones for  successful and timebound completion of initiatives by developing project plans in collaboration with all the stakeholders.

Identifying and resolving process bottlenecks, dependencies and related challenges

Enterprise program management : Apart from standard product offerings, for enterprise customers, Amagi offers tighter integration and customization of their workflows over the core product offerings.  In this role you one manage end to end onboarding and going live for such enterprise customers.  This involves

Working with pre-sales/sales/onboarding/customer to get the requirements

Prepare a detailed project plan & track it across teams; keep the stakeholders (Sales, ONB, Customer) updated on status and milestones

Work with Enterprise Engagement Team in Broadcast Engineering closely to deliver according to the plan

Get the customer trained on the platform before going live

Formally hand off to support once the customer has gone live

Create, publish and maintain well organised, comprehensive data and information about the initiatives to enable organization wide transparency and reporting

Developing dashboards and success metrics to provide visibility to various stakeholders.

Ensuring consistent and clear status reporting

Prepare presentations and provide supporting data as needed

Managing one or more programs involving product development initiatives belonging to various categories, like

Cutting edge cloud technology intensive SaaS products

Software solution involving media technology (eg, audio/video streaming)

Web frontend and backend related products (built on latest web frameworks)

Setting up processes, actively participating in improving and maintaining processes for product development and delivery initiatives to enable efficiency across organization

Based on agile methodologies and project management best practices

Training and evangelizing the participating teams on agile processes

Managing executive stakeholders

Helping the program management team as a whole to publish metrics, dashboards to bring visibility of various programs to the executive team.

Helping the executive team to take directional calls on new and ongoing programs.

Desired Skills and Experience

We'll need you to have a good foundation for establishing technical and non-technical enablement needs for internal and external teams.

Required Skills:

Communication skills: The candidate must be good at business communication, good at using all modern tools at disposal, be able to organize and lead meetings as and when required.

Technical Knowledge: The candidate must have a strong technical background and must be well aware of software engineering technology stacks popularly used in technology heavy companies. The candidate must be able to write and present tech heavy documentation.

Process Knowledge: The candidate must have experience in running process oriented programs and projects, must have knowledge of agile frameworks, and should be able to set up agile processes for existing and new product development initiatives.

Data driven acumen: The candidate must be able to do qualitative and quantitative analysis on available data and metrics to take up calls and set directions for the team.

Relationship management: The candidate must be able to maintain a good working relationship with various cross functional team members and key stakeholders.

Required Experience:

Experience in running scrum ceremonies and managing related artifacts

Hands on experience in project management tools (e.g. Jira)

Domain experience: Prior experience in media technologies like OTT, audio/video technologies, AWS/GCP cloud based application or web application development

Formal Qualifications:

Certifications (Preferable):  Agile certifications - CSM® / PMI-ACP® / SaFE®

Preferred Work Experience: 2 - 5 years

Enterprise Program managers: 5-7 years in Project/Program management

Educational Qualifications: BE/BTech + MBA (From Tier I/II institutes)