[Remote] Technical Project Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dentsu is a global marketing and advertising agency seeking a highly organized and communicative Technical Project Manager. The role involves serving as the primary contact for US-based clients while overseeing an offshore team of Developers and Technical Business Analysts, ensuring smooth delivery and alignment on project progress.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary face of the team for our US-based client. Manage client expectations, facilitate meetings, provide regular status updates, and ensure their requirements are clearly understood by the offshore team
• Actively monitor what the offshore Devs and Tech BAs are working on. Maintain full visibility into their task lists, sprint capacities, and daily bandwidth to prevent burnout or underutilization
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to proactively address, escalate, and resolve any project roadblocks, technical issues, or scope changes
• Drive project momentum. Track action items, follow up on deliverables, remove blockers, and ensure deadlines are met without compromising quality
• Act as the liaison between the offshore team and the client's senior leadership. Communicate regularly regarding team performance, workload distribution, project health, and budget utilization
• Ensure the team is following agile best practices (or the client’s preferred methodology) using project management tools like Jira

Skills

• 3-5 years of proven technical project management experience specifically in the data engineering space — things like data pipelines, ETL processes, data warehousing, and/or BI tool implementations
• Strong knowledge of SQL and Tableau
• Act as the primary face of the team for our US-based client. Manage client expectations, facilitate meetings, provide regular status updates, and ensure their requirements are clearly understood by the offshore team
• Actively monitor what the offshore Devs and Tech BAs are working on. Maintain full visibility into their task lists, sprint capacities, and daily bandwidth to prevent burnout or underutilization
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to proactively address, escalate, and resolve any project roadblocks, technical issues, or scope changes
• Drive project momentum. Track action items, follow up on deliverables, remove blockers, and ensure deadlines are met without compromising quality
• Act as the liaison between the offshore team and the client's senior leadership. Communicate regularly regarding team performance, workload distribution, project health, and budget utilization
• Ensure the team is following agile best practices (or the client's preferred methodology) using project management tools like Jira

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.
• Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.

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