Lead Technical Program Manager
Berlin, GermanyEMEA – Engineering Ops /Full-time /HybridAt Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem. As a Lead Program Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading new releases of our flagship products into the market. You’ll be responsible for collaborating across Development, Product and Marketing teams to ensure releases are successfully planned, executed and delivered. To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have a strong grasp of technology, Agile principles and excellent written and verbal communication.
Key Responsibilities of the Lead Program Manager:
1. Plan and deliver new product releases utilizing Agile approaches and tools to enable world-class delivery of technology programs
2. Provide project leadership through all phases of the software development lifecycle to ensure successful and on time delivery
3. Understands the interrelationships of different disciplines and collaborates with partner organizations to manage all deliverables required to fully launch new features
4. Strive to continuously improve processes, tools, and methodologies to optimize project management practices
5. Ensure projects are staffed appropriately and meet budget expectations
6. Define and communicate roles and responsibilities for technical & functional teams to ensure delivery of positive business outcomes
7. Plan and effectively facilitate meetings with cross-functional stakeholders
8. Proactively identify, assess and mitigate and project risks and issues. Provides solutions to issues in creative and effective ways
About you as the Lead Technical Program Manager:
9. 8+ years of experience in a corporate technology delivery role, specifically supporting the end-to-end introduction of large-scale Enterprise Software projects across multiple business units
10. Relentless passion to own all phases of the overall end-to-end delivery of the project and ability to hustle through the entire organization to get things done
11. Possess inherent leadership skills, strong project management expertise, project portfolio insight
12. Adapts style and uses persuasion in delivering messages that relate to the wider firm business
13. Ability to create strategic content and executive-level presentations for strategy, capabilities, and technology
14. Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and their critical approval gates
15. Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interacting with peers, management, and senior leadership
16. Effective at planning and facilitating meetings with cross-functional stakeholders, including peers and leadership
17. Extensive experience successfully working with and managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and interests
18. Extensive experience leading remote project teams with cross-cultural and multi-continent internal and external project resources
19. Networks with key contacts outside their own area of expertise
20. Strong technical background in Agile delivery of enterprise software projects
21. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution required