Senior Technical Project Manager
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Job Description
Teamwork makes the stream work.
Roku is changing how the world watches TV
Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US and Mexico and weve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.
From your first day at Roku youll make a valuable and valued contribution. Were a fastgrowing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.
About the Team
The Trust Engineering team builds platforms used by all cloud engineers at Roku. These components are designed to be a costeffective and secure platform of services that Roku engineers use globally. Our team owns the following segments:
- The Developer platform which involves management and evolution of source control artifacts CI/CD and securing cloud infrastructure
- Our Application hosting platform which is based on Kubernetes and Istio is designed to address scalability multiregion hosting multicloud hosting and nuances of deployment
- The Observability platform which is based on Prometheus Loki and Grafana is integrated with our application hosting and developer platform
- Plus the Cloud Governance program
Our team members are smart collegial collaborative and focused on building the bestinclass platform. We foster a culture of experimentation looking for the best idea to take the day. As a leader on this team our Director of Trust Engineering models this behavior: If were not trying new things were not growing. We need to grow and adapt so that Roku stays on top.
About the role
The Senior Technical Project Manager helps our Engineering team deliver our most complex crossfunctional critical software development projects to market. The ideal candidate will be well organized experienced in agile project management technically skilled and genuinely interested in understanding their projects business goals and technology aspects (i.e. not satisfied with simply tracking tasks on a checklist or project plan).
What youll be doing
- Partner with multiple engineering teams and product management to provide agile project management support to key product development and core engineering projects on a daytoday basis:
- Help product owners form and socialize program requirements and translate them into engineeringactionable work
- Collaborate with product owners to clearly understand and document business needs set priorities for sprint planning and review deliverables at sprint completion
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to secure engineering resources manage priorities and dependencies across teams and resolve issues in a timely manner
- Build and maintain endtoend project/program schedules
- Establish committed deliverables and measure the teams success against these commitments
- Proactively identify track and communicate dependencies risks and issues affecting projects and collaborate on finding a resolution
- Report to stakeholders on project status and estimated delivery schedule on a regular basis
- Ensure that projects follow a lightweight methodology and meet quality standards before being released to end users
- Serve as Agile Coach and act as an enabler of crossfunctional collaboration across Engineering and Product Management teams
- Oversee track and report the status of a broader product category program and help the Product Category Lead drive the product category to its business goals
- Participate in and help to drive the quarterly and yearly roadmap planning processes
- Collaborate on defining and growing the Project Management organization within dataxu
- Work to continuously improve planning and project processes across engineering and product groups
Were excited if you have
- Bachelors Degree in CS Engineering or a related discipline and/or commensurate work experience
- 5 years of experience working on software projects ideally in SaaS and/or ad tech solutions
- Experience as an agile coach and/or Jira Admin is a big plus
- Strong communicator and consensus builder
- Able to influence process change without direct authority
- Have an interest in understanding the what and how aspects of your projects and a willingness to be a handson team member beyond tracking tasks and reporting status
- Eager to understand both the business needs behind a project and the technical solutions developed to satisfy those needs
- Willing to work in a fastpaced environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously
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Benefits
Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical dental and vision) life accident disability commuter and retirement options 401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. Its important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location please consult with your recruiter.
The Roku Culture
Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fastpaced environment where everyone is focused on the companys success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs who are easy to work with and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. Were independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short at Roku youll be part of a company thats changing how the world watches TV.
We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problemsolvers which itself is a twopart idea. We come up with the solution but the solution isnt real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation one that has served us well since 2002.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
