Agile Project Manager
The AppNexus Technical Operations team is responsible for the technology that powers all of the company’s internally-facing infrastructure. With thousands of servers deployed across 5 data centers globally, AppNexus has an impressive and complex technical footprint. We are looking for an Agile Project Manager to join our team and help us to achieve even greater velocity in our projects. In this role, you will be responsible for helping our Engineers and Product Managers select, implement, and customize the most appropriate agile or project management methodologies. You will help clarify goals and requirements, foster transparency, clear obstacles, highlight risks, and promote highly collaborative teams.
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About the job:
- Manage multiple complex and cross-functional technical projects
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product leads to develop plans, goals, milestones, deliverables, and risk mitigation
- Develop and deliver change management strategies to minimize impact where necessary
- Identify and drive process improvement by diagnosing issues and implementing solutions
- Optimize trade-offs between quality, resources, scope and time
About your skills:
- BA/BS degree and 4+ years of experience in project management
- Experience with both agile and waterfall development methodologies
- Skilled in project management tools such as JIRA
- Ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams, including driving process improvement and change management
- Ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders at a technical, business, operational and executive level
- Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced, demanding, and fluid environment
More about you:
- You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
- You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
- You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem
- You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing knowledge and tools
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AppNexus is proud to offer equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. We strive to foster a diverse, inclusive and engaging work environment. We welcome applications from all candidates and look forward to receiving yours. Our diversity in action:
- Partnering with Path Forward to offer returnships to help caregivers reenter the workforce
- Sharing feedback openly through roundtable discussions on how to make progress on our Diversity & Inclusion goals
- Celebrating our diversity with affinity groups (including OutNexus, AppNexus Women’s Network, AppNexus Latino Alliance and BlackNexus to name just a few!)