Technical Project Manager

Job Description

BAMTECH Media is a place for the creative and the bold. We're seeking talent across disciplines to join our team. Whether New York City, San Francisco, Manchester or Amsterdam we provide opportunities to elevate your career and transform an industry.

BAMTECH is a leading technology services and video streaming company owned by The Walt Disney Company, MLBAM, and the National Hockey League. Our proprietary technology provides direct-to-consumer video solutions, especially for live events with high viewership, offering viewers high-quality visuals any time and on any device.

The Content Delivery group is responsible for several content platforms and streams that enable client applications for all of our partner properties to consume the content and content metadata that power them. From team lineups and editorial articles on MLB.com to video metadata on the HBO Now mobile app to NHL team web pages, Content Delivery's services and applications enable editors to make their content available to consumers.

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Posting - Business

The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)

Additional Information

This position is a legal entity of BAMTECH LLC, an equal opportunity employer.

Primary Job Posting Category

Technology

Basic Qualifications

• Confirmed experience in project planning and management, ideally in a responsive web environment.
• Sports knowledge is ideal.
• Software development knowledge and experience including APIs, reusable libraries, and frameworks.
• Experience in requirements documentation and data flow diagrams using Visio, Gliffy or similar.
• Minimum of 3 years of previous experience as a project manager. Software engineer experience is ideal.
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills with excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, 24x7 availability environment.

Job Posting - Primary Brand

BAMTECH Media

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid experience with CMS or Content Delivery is preferred, but not required.

Primary Location-Postal Code

10011

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree highly preferred and PMP certification ideal.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development iterations throughout the life of assigned project(s), which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements.
• Plan and lead internal and external project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project deliverables to identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate project risks benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Assist with technical feasibility implementation approach, deployment strategies, and QA improvement efforts by collaborating with project partners to define project scope and objectives, communicating requirements to development teams via user stories or via technical specifications including flow chart diagrams.
• Contribute to product development activities, scheduling feature additions in iterative release cycles based on priority and importance and improve department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.
• Achieve operational objectives by supplying information and recommendations; preparing and completing action plans; standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; resolving system improvements; and implementing changes.

Job Description

BAMTECH Media is a place for the creative and the bold. We're seeking talent across disciplines to join our team. Whether New York City, San Francisco, Manchester or Amsterdam we provide opportunities to elevate your career and transform an industry.

BAMTECH is a leading technology services and video streaming company owned by The Walt Disney Company, MLBAM, and the National Hockey League. Our proprietary technology provides direct-to-consumer video solutions, especially for live events with high viewership, offering viewers high-quality visuals any time and on any device.

The Content Delivery group is responsible for several content platforms and streams that enable client applications for all of our partner properties to consume the content and content metadata that power them. From team lineups and editorial articles on MLB.com to video metadata on the HBO Now mobile app to NHL team web pages, Content Delivery's services and applications enable editors to make their content available to consumers.

Employment Type

Full Time

Additional Information

This position is a legal entity of BAMTECH LLC, an equal opportunity employer.

Basic Qualifications

• Confirmed experience in project planning and management, ideally in a responsive web environment.
• Sports knowledge is ideal.
• Software development knowledge and experience including APIs, reusable libraries, and frameworks.
• Experience in requirements documentation and data flow diagrams using Visio, Gliffy or similar.
• Minimum of 3 years of previous experience as a project manager. Software engineer experience is ideal.
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills with excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, 24x7 availability environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid experience with CMS or Content Delivery is preferred, but not required.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree highly preferred and PMP certification ideal.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development iterations throughout the life of assigned project(s), which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements.
• Plan and lead internal and external project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project deliverables to identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate project risks benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Assist with technical feasibility implementation approach, deployment strategies, and QA improvement efforts by collaborating with project partners to define project scope and objectives, communicating requirements to development teams via user stories or via technical specifications including flow chart diagrams.
• Contribute to product development activities, scheduling feature additions in iterative release cycles based on priority and importance and improve department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.
• Achieve operational objectives by supplying information and recommendations; preparing and completing action plans; standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; resolving system improvements; and implementing changes.