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Project Manager
Provide high-level project management and coordination between project teams , management and other departments in the development of various products from initial concept through production.
Qualifications
- Project management experience
- Proven track record in ability to drive a project to completion in a timely manner
- Demonstrated success in bringing together cross-functional teams for effective problem resolution and timely project completion
- Takes ownership for leadership of projects through identification and leverage of team members' knowledge and strengths to move projects forward effectively
- Proven success in challenging outcomes throughout projects to determine necessary changes to project or processes
- Ability to understand the technical aspects of the project and determine the right questions to ask that will steer the project in the most effective direction
- Ability to work with Production, Marketing, and Engineering departments located internationally
- Proven communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills through success in previous project management experiences
- Experience with some form of Agile process
- Experience with incremental software development processes
- Proficiency with planning tools
- Experience and desire in working with teams across multiple time-zones and countries
- Experience in the wireless industry including handset, application, or content development a plus
- Consumer electronics industry experience a plus
- Experience and understanding of using and creating Open Source software and hardware
- Experience in using and defining source code control systems, especially distributed source code control based systems such as Mercurial and Git
- Designing and implementing security into systems from the ground up
- Defining and using continuous integration and software release based software processes
- Experience with and implementing Agile based processes a plus
Job Tasks
- Track and maintain the development of products and their associated accessories through coordination with software engineers and other project stakeholders
- Provide guidance and leadership through definition of clear objectives, timelines, and milestones to internal and external staff working on project
- Coordinate and attend weekly project status meetings
- Understand market commitments and ensure product schedules can meet those commitments
- Gather and clearly communicate requirements to the project teams
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure a flawless product introduction and initial deliveries to customers
- Work with Product Managers to coordinate relatively complex projects across multiple functional areas, managing ongoing action items while tracking and reporting progress
- Create system level test plans, oversee the execution of these tests and the associated feedback, and track corrective actions taken as a result of testing
- Create customer training plans, oversee the execution of these plans and the associated feedback, and track corrective actions taken as a result of executing plans
- Create external beta testing programs, oversee the execution of these programs and the associated feedback, and track corrective actions taken as a result of beta testing
- Manage requests for derivative products and ensure they are defined, forecasted, and produced according to plan
- Provide training and project management guidance to engineers and staff
- Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings as necessary
- Perform other duties required to complete tasks assigned