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Associate Director, Technical Project Management
WebMD
New York, NY, United States
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Description
WebMD is the most recognized and trusted brand of health information and the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through our public and private online portals and WebMD the Magazine. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, RxList, theheart.org and Medscape Education. Our consumer portals and mobile health applications provide engaging, relevant and credible health and wellness information, personalized health assessment tools and access to online communities.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Overview:
• Operates both on a programmatic level and as lead on individual projects.
• Familiar with managing a program of work, including experience with contributing to program roadmaps and product development.
• Able to make connections between related projects, streamline effort, and identify dependencies and integration points.
• Demonstrates proactive issue resolution.
Responsibilities:
• Manages the Agile development process for individual projects including requirements gathering, user story creation, sprint planning/estimation, daily scrum, QA, UAT/showcase, deployments and retrospectives.
• Works closely with Product Owners and Tech Leads to establish functional and technical requirements and facilitates solutioning.
• Ability to deep dive into functional and technical requirements for digital products and systems
• Helps support the team in user story estimation making sure that time commitments are achievable.
• Responsible for managing the progress and sprint milestones of deliverables. Identifies and manages project dependencies and blocker issues.
• Ensures project team is accurately reporting their time and status throughout the project.
• Oversees transition between functional groups to ensure timely project delivery. Ensures appropriate deployment planning and launch communication occurs.
• Extensive experience managing projects through JIRA/Confluence
• Ensures the appropriate level of documentation is produced and shared. Takes useful notes and documents project information.
• Familiar with team communication software (e.g. Slack), project planning tools (e.g. MS Project, SmartSheet), and Google product suite (e.g. Gmail, Drive, Sheets).
• Works efficiently with distributed teams in multiple locations
• Communicates effectively with business stakeholders, reports on progress, sets and manages expectations.
• Escalates issues, raises risks, and formulates mitigation strategies and action plans.
• Responsible for identifying any resource needs or constraints on projects or programs, and provides recommendations on prioritization to manager.
• Demonstrates leadership. Ability to manage and/or influence team members and senior management.
• Coaches, mentors and supports junior team members.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 7 years of technical project management experience
Preferred:
• Minimum 3 years Agile and scrum experience
• PMP
• Certified Scrum Master
• Knowledge of CMS
• Relevant industry experience (healthcare, editorial, software development, or advertising)