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Technical Project Manager in QA
Crunchyroll
San Francisco, CA, United States
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At Crunchyroll, anime is our passion. Crunchyroll is the largest anime streaming service in the world, and one of the top ten streaming companies in the United States. Our service delivers anime and manga to over 20 million registered users and 750K subscribers. We’re looking for an Associate Producer to join a passionate and creative team to engage our robust, off-platform audience.
We are looking for an experienced and technical individual to join us as a Technical Project Manager. Your primary responsibilities will be to work with the Head of Quality and the offshore Team leads to ensure that the team continues on an accelerated velocity as well as assisting in the coordination of QA/QE efforts across various development teams and requests to the QA/QE department. Your work will help the team to do less, better and allow the team to embrace and drive change within the company which will directly impact how we deliver content our highly passionate audiences. The ideal candidate will have the demonstrated ability of being in an QA position in the past, experience working in a high demand request environment, understanding and implementing various Agile methodologies within a company, and managing several ongoing high priority projects.
Responsibilities:
• Manage large scale projects while coordinating with offshore QA/QE , product and development teams
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery while driving execution
• Work with team leads and Head of Quality to develop new projects.
• Identify and provide potential resolutions to problems, project changes and resource constraints, escalating to management as necessary
• Drive internal and external process improvements across the team
• Schedule and manage QA/QE requirements from the rest of the company for the team to meet the needs of the company
• Ongoing communication of planning, project status, issues and risks in a timely fashion.
• Assist with the status reporting and executive level reporting as necessary for critical projects
• Assist in the management of project statuses through driving current Agile methods, including through the JIRA ticketing system.
• Perform business analysis and translation of technical specs to non-technical managers/peers
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science/Masters of Science in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
• Direct experience implementing Agile methodologies for process management
• Project management experience in an engineering discipline
• Demonstrated flexibility with respect to business process implementation or management
• Strong communication skills and experience working with highly technical management teams
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience as an individual contributor in QA
• Created process to accomplish business goals
• At least five years of project/program management experience
• Ability to handle a number of simultaneous projects while demonstrating urgency and ownership to drive an overall program to completion
• Strong organizational and coordination skills along with multi-tasking capabilities to get things done in a fast paced environment
• Ability to motivate and focus cross-functional teams to reach challenging goals
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team
• High level technical understanding of the various elements of QA/QE is preferred
Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, and Commuter benefits
• Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers
• Catered lunch and dinner 4x/week
• Pet friendly environment
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About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is a leading global destination and platform for Japanese anime and Asian content. Through applications including Crunchyroll for iPhone, iPad, Android, Playstation®3, Playstation®4, Xbox LIVE®, AppleTV, Roku, Internet-enabled TVs, set-top boxes, affiliate websites and its own streaming website, Crunchyroll delivers more than 25,000 episodes and 15,000 hours of officially-licensed content from leading Asian media producers direct to viewers translated professionally in multiple languages within minutes of TV broadcast. The company was founded in 2006 and now has over 700,000 paid subscribers and is a Top 10 SVOD service.
About Ellation, Inc. (General)
Ellation is a leading OTT video business committed to building premium video experiences for passionate superfans and creating a more sustainable direct-to-consumer business model for content creators and programmers. Ellation operates the anime streaming platform Crunchyroll, the crafting site Creativebug, and the recently launched VRV, a curated multi-channel platform for fans of animation, games, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, horror, and technology.
Ellation is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and is funded by Otter Media, a Joint Venture between The Chernin Group and AT&T.