Quartz Seeks Technical Project Manager - (Union Square, NYC) New York City

ABOUT QUARTZ
Quartz is a digitally native news outlet launched by Atlantic Media in September 2012 for people who are excited by change. It provides a 24/7 digital guide to the new global economy designed to serve business professionals who travel the world, are focused on international markets, and value critical thinking. Quartz is optimized for the digital, mobile lifestyle--it's free and built mobile-first for social distribution with no pay walls, registration walls, or app downloads. Quartz is ad-supported and accessed simply at qz.com.

In a span of two years, Quartz is already capturing the attention of the media industry with more than 80 blue-chip advertisers running on the site and underwriting events. Advertising is non-standard and constructed with design and user experience at its core, seamlessly woven into the editorial stream of content while clearly marked as partner messages. TIME Magazine has named Quartz on its list of "50 Best Websites" while TED has noted Quartz as one of the "100 Websites You Should Know and Use" while Quartz's leadership team is drawn from award-winning veterans and rising stars.


As Technical Project Manager, you will lead operations and project management for the product team.

Responsibilities include:
- Integrating and adapting Scrum framework to organization needs
- Coaching stakeholders and product team to improve process, interactions and efficiency
- Managing product ideation, design, development, execution and iteration for all Quartz products
- Inspecting and adapting workflow and training coworkers on new software
- Prioritizing product features in collaboration with editorial, marketing and sales department
- Identify and resolve conflict areas in priorities and head off potential delays
- Manage the daily allocations of a growing team of designers and developers
- Track all projects on detailed timelines to meet deadlines
- Host and facilitate regular meetings with team members and senior leadership to discuss ongoing and future initiatives
- Propose projects and project groupings in support of business objectives
- Work with the product engineering director and development team members on product documentation including scope definitions, use cases, requirements, project dependencies and QA


Qualifications of Ideal Candidate:
- 4+ years' technical project management experience, working directly with designers and developers
- Experience managing both large-scale initiatives and quick-turnaround projects
- Experience / background with agile development methodologies
- Experience in scoping, documenting and testing products on all digital platforms: web, email, mobile and tablet
- Excellent communication skills, ability to multi-task and prioritize, strong attention to detail, comfortable presenting to senior leadership
- A startup mentality and fundamental interest in pushing the boundaries of web technologies and what came before in pursuit of building something better
- A positive, collaborative attitude that inspires others to be the same
- A genuine interest in intelligent, engaging, thought-provoking journalism
- Eagerness to learn new skills and frameworks, as necessary
- Experience with JIRA preferred



Please apply online: http://atlanticmedia.theresumator.com/apply/1tdcFR/Technical-Project-Manager.html?source=

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