Job Description
Project Manager - Transaction Email Marketing
Location: REMOTE Client: The National Basketball Association Role: LONG TERM CONTRACT
Position Summary
Reporting into the Project Management Office, this role will support the Transactional Email Marketing and eCommerce team on all projects and initiatives.
Major Responsibilities
- Project Management & Scrum Master blend: Projects
- Ability to manage an assortment of small, medium, & large development projects successfully according to the expectations of key stakeholders.
- Coordinate with various teams to ensure a clear understanding of project objectives, deliverables, and milestones and articulating overall project objectives, deadlines & requirements.
- Manage 3rd party partner timeline inputs with enough time for teams to execute and deliver, while tracking & managing changes in real time.
- Anticipate potential project roadblocks and proactively implement solutions in real time.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, outlining tasks, timelines, and resource requirements & management and key project documentation.
- Managing release cycles and launches through delivery and closeout.
- Scrum Management
- Effectively facilitate or participate in agile scrum ceremonies across one or more scrum teams.
- Collaborate with the Product Management team to ensure the product backlog is continuously prioritized and maintained.
- Ensure proper acceptance criteria, definition of ready and done for requirements.
- Facilitate internal and external communications (e.g., task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management).
- Velocity tracking to ensure teams are working within expected capacity limits Communication and Process/Operations:
- Demonstrate clear, concise, effective verbal and written communications.
- Lead the creation of project and product status updates for your teams based on a deep and continuously evolving understanding of the NBA's business and objectives. Required Education/Professional Experience
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in digital project management for consumer facing products
- Experience as a project manager in a digital or marketing environment.
- Strong Atlassian suite experience
- Expertise in modern project management tools and standard methodologies, such as Agile/CSM, Lean, and planning tools Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
- Strong aVenton to detail and ability to lead multiple sub-projects at once.
- Team player; excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in developing a roadmap of requirements.
- Experience collaborating across teams to keep alignment on digital transformation efforts and assure collaboration and best practices.
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills. Highly Qualified Applicants will have:
- A passion for basketball
- Relevant experience within the sports media industry
- Experience working with AVOD, TVOD and SVOD
- Familiarity with platform specific design guidelines and partner integrations
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