XR Project Manager - Remote OK

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Job Description

The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members. 

 

Responsibilities

  • Set project timeline
  • Monitor project deliverables
  • Update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project progress
  • Coach and support project team members with tasks you assign them


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong business acumen in project planning and management
  • Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
  • 3+ years of technical project management experience. 
  • A huge bonus if you have a background in Computer Science, Augmented Reality, and/or medical practices. 
  • 3+ years organizing tasks and teams in Jira. 
  • Proven performance of management of large teams. 


Skills we are looking for:   

  • Ownership of the assigned project(s) in a fast paced environment. 
  • Knowledge of full stack environments. 
  • Exemplary Communication with executive managers, clients, and project stake holders. 
  • Ability to produce and communicate tasks from meetings to engineers, QA, and artists. 
  • Ability to generate reports, timelines and roadmaps consistent with future goals. 
  • Lead iterative delivery of cross-functional initiatives (for app and platform components) from concept to launch, through focus on transparency, communication, visibility and accountability 
  • Ability to translate engineer speak is a plus. 
  • Above all, honesty and proper representation of project status. 


In this role, you will: 

  • Lead iterative delivery of cross-functional initiatives (for app and platform components) from concept to launch, through focus on transparency, communication, visibility and accountability 
  • Work closely with Engineering, Design, and Subject Matter Experts to deliver a product that our industry loves 
  • Own communication for technical delivery across these projects with senior leadership and across partner organizations 
  • Anticipate bottlenecks and balance business needs versus technical constraints to move products forward quickly 
  • Work with development teams to ensure proper status reporting and lifecycle evolution of in-flight products 
  • Bring deep technical and software expertise, strong project management skills, good judgment and the ability to work in a fast-moving environment 


We’d love to hear from you if you have: 

  • 6+ years of complex project management experience 
  • A Passion for Augmented/Mixed Reality and computer vision project work
  • Proven ability to create complex, cross-functional workplans with both internal and external stakeholders 
  • Experience with Azure Services 
  • Experience coordinating release schedules 
  • Executive presence with the ability to communicate succinctly; ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical individuals 
  • Natural leadership skills and lead by example 
  • Ability to effectively identify and mitigate technical and non-technical program risks 
  • Experience working in a fast-paced matrix technical organization; understanding of working in a start-up environment driving clarity to often ambiguous work 
  • Solid understanding and experiences in adopting Agile practices with product teams (Scrum, Kanban, or others) 
  • Passion for technology and customer-led design 
  • Proven problem-solving skills and proven organizational skills 
  • Nice-to-have: Experience delivering consumer electronics and IoT devices 


Things to keep in mind: 

  • You are authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.