Role: Project Manager

Duration: through April 2025 (good possible 1 year extension)

Work Location: Inglewood, CA

Job Description

• Must have experience in analytics.
• Must have experience working in PMO department
• Must have experience in the media industry
• Must have experience in streaming applications
• Servant leadership style who works hand-in-hand with product or tech lead partner to support team or respective teams.
• Constant Proactivity to learn and understand the business of NFL Media and how your team fits into the over-arching business.
• Strong relationship building skills to understand who people are and how to work successfully with each individual.
• Ability to listen, learn and break down business challenges and problems into an articulate plan of action.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns with ability to problem solve with little information.
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
• Coordinate with internal teams (engineering, UX/UI, content, strategy, etc.) and external partners to ensure project milestones are met.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope.
• Confidence in delivering project updates including sensitive information or high-risk status.
• Work with PMO to deliver required documentation and detail as part of Drive Planning.
• Ensure all projects align with company's strategic goals and deliver against current Drive plan goals.
• Ability to partner with program management to ensure status and detail are shared and each role complements each other.
• Holds themselves accountable to their team, the PMO team and the broader department.

Key Subject Matter Responsibilities:

• Analytics Implementation utilizing Jira and corresponding roadmaping tool to ensure all projects across the digital ecosystem have analytics representation. Must have experience with Airtable and/or Jira Product Discovery tool
• be strong Jira user
• with Atlassian suite of tools a plus
• Manage Jira tickets for all tests delivering against optimization
• Proactively work with key stakeholders across Strategy, content, product, etc of required tests to document requirements and detail needed
• Manage all data requests including intake process and full lifecycle to move work through Jira to execution, ensuring work continues to be delivered in timely manner
• Manage ongoing product analytics and optimization readout meetings
• Operationalize portfolio of work for analytics team including weekly planning and prioritization sessions
• Communication of releases and key updates across projects and team delivery
• Work with other PJM's supporting cross functional work inclusive of DIO team to ensure all work is entered and tracked in roadmap tooling
• Technical Comprehension: Moderate understanding of mobile apps, Connected TV platforms, OTT services, web, and general digital media technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proactive and positive mindset to keep teams focused and engaged.
• Strong emotional intelligence and relationship skills.
• Polished leadership presence and experience creating accountability across teams.
• A willingness to play different roles to fill gaps. If they cannot fill the gaps, they are proactively working with leadership and various stakeholders to help fill it.
• A willingness to partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders. Someone who will help solution in addition to driving the team forward.
• Strong facilitation and workshop capabilities to help cross-functional teams define the outcomes and then deliver on those outcomes.
• Experience managing Stakeholder feedback, input, knowledge sessions to inform business requirements.
• Ability to facilitate and solution amongst opposing team views to get to an aligned approach or decision.
• Strong ability to manage decision making process including managing up and holding people accountable to deadlines.
• Solution driven but not afraid to fail and learn from it.
• Strong communication skills based on reading the room, understanding the ask and knowing the audience.
• General support of analytics team