YOU ARE:

• Excited about designing the connected world and want to join a team of ambitious, like-minded technologists
• Passionate about the intersection of design and technology and strive to explore new meaningful interactions between the physical and digital worlds
• Autonomous, detail-oriented, quality-focused and a vocal participant in any group endeavor
• Committed to high impact, strategic, design- and data-driven innovation, and to making a meaningful and measurable contribution to the organizations in which you work
• Someone who strives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and are able to quickly switch gears between client work, internal initiatives, and supporting your peers
• Stack-agnostic and able to lead and mentor designers, developers and quality assurance experts

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Manage complex technology projects at a tactical and strategic level
• Work with our product management and business development teams to determine the best solutions for client-driven and internal initiatives
• Work with a committed and passionate team of software engineers to architect, build, componentize, test and deploy best of class software products
• Leverage your experience in Agile, XP and lean methodologies to ensure nimble iterative development while meeting client expectations

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Minimum 5 years as a successful Technical Project Manager, ideally in a consulting, agency or professional services environment – we’re not looking for middle managers from large financial institutions; we’re looking for autonomous, hands-on, people-focused innovators who inspire loyalty and thrive in times of change
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodology – e.g. XP, scrum, Kanban – and some prior experience to traditional agency methodologies like PMI and SDLC
• Solid understanding of scoping, estimation and tracking processes, and a measurement-focus attitude toward project health and risks
• Ability to parse business requirements and understand strategic client priorities, ensuring that functional specifications capture appropriate nuance and products have a meaningful impact on end users
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with structured task management using online tools like Jira, ClickUp, Notion, Trello, etc.
• Self-motivated to take initiative and ownership of your work
• A user-centric mindset throughout the product development process, informed by experience in end user testing and iterative feedback loops
• Up-to-date with the latest technology trends and best practices, open to new tools and methodologies, and passionate about best practices

WHAT WE’D ALSO LOVE TO SEE:

• An understanding of generative AI’s impact on the world of today and tomorrow
• Prior experience as a developer and/or a level of comfort with code, application architecture, database optimization, systems design, cloud implementations, application security and or hardware/IoT
• Experience as an entrepreneur, particularly in the SaaS world; we love people who’ve started their own ventures, big or small
• Early adopter of new technology and gadgets