Technical Project Manager (Remote)
at Weedmaps (View all jobs)
Irvine, CA, Remote
As a Technical Project/Program Manager at Weedmaps, you will use your exceptional technical knowledge and project management skills to drive progress within your team's technical domain while aligning key stakeholders, keeping projects on-track, maintaining team health and mood, and informing stakeholders. Drawing on your project management and team leadership expertise in non-conforming environments, you'll collaborate with teams across the organization such as Engineering, Product, and Design departments to build and execute strategies and plans centered around different company products. Your mentality of servant leadership will help you mentor teams as you partner with others to foster an open, transparent development and delivery environment.
The impact you'll make:
Help drive clarity and transparency within cross functional teams.
Align teams towards complex multi-year goals while meeting the operational needs of current customers.
Regularly assess the team's working maturity, health, and composition, relentlessly striving for cohesion and delivery excellence.
Provide the Director of Technical Program Management Office (TPMO) and all project stakeholders with regular consistent reporting regarding your teams.
Partner closely with the VP of Engineering to help manage, plan, and track production and development schedules and workflows, while raising risks, managing trade-offs, and eliminating blockers.
Continuously assess a team's current situation and adapt planning tools, Agile methodologies, and communication channels to ensure successful, sustainable delivery.
Create transparency and predictability via feature mapping, roadmaps, sprint plans, burn-downs, cycle times, value stream maps, budget updates, and release reports.
Align communication between the cross-functional departments throughout the organization as it pertains to your project/program, with the possibility of off hours duty, if needed.
Understand the task and responsibilities of the cross-functional departments and be able to launch mitigation steps in case there is a gap or unforeseen issue that needs to be addressed.
Ensure project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved on schedule and within budget.
What you've accomplished:
3+ years in extended eCommerce platform services background including experience in supply chain, retail delivery, and marketplace activities both on the retail and end-consumer side as well as experience working in ERP and eCommerce engines.
3+ years experience working with a CMS to help teams create, edit and publish web content in a centralized database or repository. Comfortable helping teams set up workflows, assigning permissions based on roles as well as educating them on how to publish, organize and push content live.
5+ years in a project management role for high production, high performing teams that consist of inter-departmental roles such as software, design, product development, and business operations.
5+ years in a project/program management role focused on delivery of a new company program or highly.
Scrum Master or Agile Training.
Self starter mentality and strong resolve when met with challenges via a project, a program, and personnel.
2+ years in an acting Scrum Master role, or leading an Agile team.
Proven ability to guide a software development team.
Proven ability to effectively communicate to varying levels of management via presentations,
scheduled updates, and ad hoc communication requests.
Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement methods to help teams perform efficiently.
Proven ability to manage teams, mostly through influence, and thrives in a high paced dynamic environment.
Bonus points:
JIRA administration and tool (Structure, boards, etc) experience.
Git experience.
Experience with Slack, Slack Integrations, PagerDuty, and other communication, reporting, and productivity tools.
Project Management Certification such as CSM, PMP, CAPM, and SixSigma.
Experience in process improvement implementations.
Confluence administration experience.
Our 2022 Benefits:
Medical, Dental & Vision benefits (effective Day1):
Employee - employer paid premium 100%
Dependent - employer paid premium 80%
HMO - Kaiser & Anthem
PPO and HDHP with HSA - Anthem
Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary
401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer contribution)
PTO (3 weeks accrued); 5 sick days
Supplemental, voluntary benefits
Kindbody (family planning/fertility) including up to $10,000 towards cash-pay services
Goodly (Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings) including a company contribution of up to $1,000/year
FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life Insurance
Short- and long-term disability Insurance
Company-paid identity theft protection
Rocket Lawyer legal services platform
Reimbursements for home office setup and monthly WiFi
Why Weedmaps?
You get to play a meaningful role in the future of cannabis and how it's regarded globally
Catered lunches provided while working in the office and curated snack boxes delivered to your door when working at home
Casual work environment, read no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
Generous PTO and company holidays
Endless opportunities to network and connect with your fellow Weedmappers through education and speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights and much more!
Weedmaps is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We are looking for the smartest and most passionate people who want to join our team and develop the services, systems, and marketplaces that will serve the marijuana industry in the decades to come. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.
Applicants may be entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the ADA and state/local laws. Please inform us if you need assistance participating in the interview process.
About Weedmaps:
WM Technology, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we've seen in the past 10 years.
Founded in 2008, WM Technology, is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business' tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.
WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.
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