TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Toolbox OTT
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Experience: 3+ years as program or project manager
- Required Languages: Advanced English and Portuguese
- Key Responsibility: Liaison between Toolbox and B2B customers
- Requirement: Iterative and incremental agile project planning expertise
Role overview
Toolbox is a Technology company founded in 2013 that acts as a key business partner across industries by enabling the generation of new profitable business through unique technology development. They specialize in the online TV industry, providing User Authentication & Authorization Services, Content Aggregation & Distribution, and App Development for End Users, with products used by major clients like Warner Media, NBC Universal, and Sony. The Technical Program Manager oversees the planning, implementation, and tracking of specific mid and long term projects with specified deliverables. Acting as a liaison between Toolbox and B2B customers, this role connects teams, technology, and customers to ensure alignment across stakeholders and turn technical and business challenges into actionable plans.
Responsibilities
- Oversees the planning, implementation, and tracking of specific mid and long term projects with specified deliverables
- Works as a liaison between Toolbox and B2B customers and is responsible for project deliverables to achieve agreed-upon milestones
- Make straight-to-the-point brief decks and presentations
- Absorve, condense and communicate project risks and status
- Work with C-level internal and external from a neutral position
- Know when to talk and when to withdraw from conversation
- Set a meeting agenda and avoid topic drifting
- Expose problems and issues with alternative solutions showing understanding of the root cause
- Make good use of the team's time leaving time aside for deep focused work for the projects to move forward
- Separate, differentiate and isolate architecture, business and project decisions
- Identify and analyze technical requirements or issues when necessary to avoid overload of development teams
- Confront and resolve technical challenges, configure requirements, or analyze technical issues when necessary
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, Operations, and B2B customers, bringing clarity to priorities, anticipating risks, and turning technical and business challenges into actionable plans
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a program or project manager in technology initiatives
- Experience coordinating cross-company teams and different functional areas like Engineering, Product and Operations
- Strong communication skills (a direct, short, unambiguous and cordial style is preferred)
- Advanced English and Portuguese (written and verbal skills)
- Iterative and incremental agile project planning expertise, specially oscillating between high and low level layers, including deadlines and dependencies
- High level understanding of SDLC, development, infrastructure, QA and Security
Nice to have
- Demonstrated experience in several business domains, preferred around the Media/Entertainment and/or Software Development industry
Additional details
- Toolbox is a product company aiming to guide and accompany market development, building solutions leveraged by as many clients as possible
- 90% of internet traffic related to Online TV in Latin America goes through Toolbox
- The company works with cutting edge technology to build robust, high availability systems able to handle high load and concurrency
- Toolbox looks for people bringing fresh ideas from high concurrency system design, non-structured data organization, distributed computing, API design and Mobile areas
- Originally posted on Himalayas