Technical Project Manager

Job Description

About the Team

VIZIO is looking for a proactive and forward-thinking technical manager to enhance existing operations and platform projects. In this hands-on role, you will help manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms, monitoring and lead engineering teams to ensure milestones and deadlines are met.

What You Will Do

VIZIO is looking for a proactive and forward-thinking technical project manager to enhance existing operations and platform projects

In this hands-on role, you will help manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms, monitoring and leading engineering teams to ensure milestones and deadlines are met

Run and lead engineering team to deliver products and solutions for sophisticated embedded systems

Provide outstanding leadership to program team to deliver projects / programs timely, with high quality while achieving excellent results

Perform overall program-level planning & lead program execution of interdependent projects, and drive effective and accurate status reporting

Be responsible for the identification of risks and issues, and development of risk mitigation strategies and associated processes

Identify critical partners and required engagement model and handle effective decision- making with leadership / engineering teams

Supervise overall roadmap, identify and report potential obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls, and problems with schedule, and release delays

Communicate with related parties with software engineers, product managers, and development teams

Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers

Outstanding communication and presentation skills to engineers, managers, and execs

Identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, and facilitating resolutions

Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues

Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes

Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Marketing teams

About You

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or similar
• 5+ years demonstrate ability in engineering development and project management are required

Driving multi-functional efforts across major technical fields : SW, HW, Product, and QA

Sound technical foundation and a highly motivated self-starter

Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies

Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire team members

Familiarity of SDLC

Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Kanban development methodologies

Good understanding of OS systems, media, and system architecture

Sound understanding of UX and UI development

Excellent time management and organizational skills

Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with many different personality types

Ability to work well in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment

Excellent planning, time management, organizational and interpersonal skills

Excellent with a project management tool is necessary, experience with JIRA & Confluence

Partner with engineering teams throughout feature development from architecture, design, implementation, and validation

Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, and timelines for technologies

Solid understanding of Git / BitBucket

About VIZIO

We are Beautifully Simple.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.