Job Description
Role: Technical Project Manager
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Research and development required to bring virtual and augmented reality to billions of people around the world. To give people the power to build community, to share what matters most to them, and to bring people closer together. To that end, our Pittsburgh based team is specifically focused on making interpersonal, social experiences in virtual reality and augmented reality, perceptually indistinguishable from real life.
For this role, we are looking for an exceptional Technical Program Manager to join our team. If your passion and experience lies in working with multidisciplinary teams and building the right processes and methodologies for them; if you’ve had experience with complex cutting edge technology; if you thrive helping your team coordinate and collaborate in the face of ambitious and ambiguous challenges, taking on work that has never been done before; we might have a spot for you.
Responsibilities:
Managing multiple parallel data capture system builds. Building out tasks, timelines, and project management structures for teams creating unique hardware and software capture systems.
Setting and maintaining expectations. Ensuring the team has a unified clear vision, understood goals, and expectations of progress.
Keeping partners and stakeholders informed and involved. Being able to represent your program at a deep level throughout the org, to be able to build the appropriate communication channels both within and outside the team.
Being responsible for the rules of reality. Ensuring work is adequately resourced and scoped. Effectively escalating or directly resolving resourcing issues to accomplish the teams mission.
Keeping the team unblocked and effective. Ensuring the members of their team are able work at their highest potential and able to play to their strengths. That conflicts (both technical and interpersonal) have paths toward resolution to allow the team to move forward.
Iterative process improvements. Leverage the least amount of process to accomplish the goal. Ask, "Is there a better way?“. Evaluate retrospectives to add, adjust, and remove processes based on learnings.
Minimum Qualifications:
3+ years of experience as a project manager in software or hardware development.
Experience with either hardware or software integration and rapid development practices.
Project management, leadership, task tracking, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, program management, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience leading a team from concept to completion of a program.
Communication/presentation ability through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
Experience building and managing relationships with hardware vendors and other external partners, including creating statements of work and negotiating purchase agreements.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing staff training programs.
Ability to track budgets and create reliable quarterly estimates.
Experience with machine learning and computer vision.
Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers.
Demonstrable experience in risk management, managing sensitive data, assessing study risks and mitigating study risks.
Warm Regards,
Simran Khanduja
Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC (DISYS)
1301 Fannin St, Suite 1600
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: 562-453-3983| Ext. 75626| www.disys.com
Email: Simran.khanduja@disys.com