Senior Project Manager

Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Studio City, CA (Hybrid 3 days a week)

Fulltime – Direct Hire

Pay: $91,000-114,000/year

Our entertainment media client is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to oversee delivery of strategic initiatives to continue to build their Subscription Video On Demand service. As our one and only Project Manager, you will be a self-starter and independent operator, able to apply your expertise to bring together diverse internal and external stakeholders to ensure the seamless delivery of transformative product initiatives.

Responsibilities include:

• Project Execution: Oversee delivery of product development projects, ensuring alignment with product strategy, on-time, on budget delivery, and optimal resource allocation.
• Team Communication & Accountability: Coordinates intradepartmental and cross-functional teams. Serve as the nexus between internal departments and external vendors, ensuring streamlined and transparent communication. Regularly liaise with the business, product, tech ops and vendor teams, updating on progress, challenges, and ensuring responsibilities are clear and met. Own all tracking and relevant materials to keep all stakeholders informed of project status.
• Vendor Management: Engage and oversee external vendors, ensuring deliverables are timely, of high quality, and resonate with our agreed upon product strategy.
• Timeline Management: Define and implement effective timelines and track project milestones, deliverables, budgets and deadlines, swiftly identifying potential risks and roadblocks, and crafting solutions.
• Performance Analysis: Assess project outcomes post-launch, drawing insights to refine processes and drive future success.

Skills & Experience:

• Project Management: Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 3-5 years’ experience in managing delivery of complex digital projects, especially with external partners.
• Desired Certifications: PMP and/or Certified Scrum Master, or equivalent
• Agile Expert: Experience working in Agile environments, driving sprint deadlines and development rituals.
• Communicator: Exceptional ability to convey complex project narratives to a diverse audience, both technical and non-technical.
• Relationship Management: Established skills in fostering strong relationships with internal teams and external partners, ensuring harmonized collaboration.
• Detail-oriented, Strategic Organizer: Superior organizational skills with a penchant for setting and meeting ambitious goals while ensuring details get delivered.
• Persistent: Proactive communicator ensuring all parties are always aware and on track with their respective tasks, deliverables and associated deadlines.

Russell Tobin