Sr. Project Manager
Sports/Entertainment
How would going to work feel if you could spend 100% of your time working on digital sports and entertainment products, and you were dealing with the most high profile sports teams, leagues, and entertainment companies in the world?
Omnigon is a team of over 50 digital business, engineers, designers and product visionaries, all working together to design, and build digital products and experiences for the sports and entertainment industries. We eat, drink, sleep, design, and develop "digital". This includes social, mobile, enterprise level systems, and much, much more.
With offices in New York, Toronto and Kiev, Omnigon is a multinational, multicultural company. Helping some of the most important companies in the sports, media and entertainment world develop and execute digital strategies is a big job and requires smart, forward thinking staff.
Could you be one of us?
We are seeking an experienced project management staff member to join our rapidly growing project/product team as a Senior Project Manager.
In this role you will manage delivery of software projects from discovery and design through technical development and implementation. You must be extremely detail oriented, but also be able to understand and drive towards big picture goals. Analytical thinking in a fast-paced environment is essential. Our Project Managers are enthusiastic problem solvers and thrive on being engaged at all levels of the project. As the key point of contact for both the Client and the project team, you'll play a pivotal role in the success of any engagement.
To be an Omnigon PM you must be able to guide the client and our internal team to ensure that the tone of the engagement, and the delivery is on track. In short, you're one of the most important parts to the client's experience with Omnigon. You must think quickly under pressure, motivate our team, and own the timely and accurate delivery of your engagements.
Working closely with our internal team and the client's team you'll focus on delivering innovative solutions that meet the outlined requirements. The ability to read between the lines, anticipate issues, and communicate consistently and accurately across the various project channels is a key requirement.
If you want to work in advertising, join an 'agency'. If you want to spend 100% of your time innovating and delivering digital products that serve the industries you truly love, get in touch with us now.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to motivate, support and understand different project teams
- Deep understanding and awareness of product development and experience tying product goals to business goals
- Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical
- Experience with the development of digital solutions and a understanding of associated development technologies and third party applications and platforms
- Competencies in MS Office, MSProject, bug tracking, wiki and other related project management and commoncommunications tools is required
- Experience with issue tracking and resolution software (e.g. Bugzilla, etc.)
- Experience with source control software (SVN, TFS, etc.)
- PMP and other project management certifications are a plus
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating overall project management documentation and working with the project team(s) to execute on plans
- Monitor day-to-day activities of the project team and ensure work is progressing as planned. Work with project team and actively be involved in the work
- Work with clients to assess business needs and assist in establishing requirements by leveraging knowledge of sports and entertainment fields
- Manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and projectdeliverables dates are clearly communicated, understood and executed upon
- Ability to work across several projects or as the primary Project Manager on a large-scale engagement
- Effectively and efficiently plan and prioritize all deliverables and resources working across project(s) based on scope of work and project goals
- Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance
- Consistently identify needs that Clients may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked toobjectives and future needs
- Consistently manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback
- Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to clients, team members and senior management on a regularbasis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels
- Proactively identify opportunities and deliver improvements
- Partner with project team leads to present work as well as participate in new business presentation opportunities
Come join an organization where you'll get to work as part of a world-class team, and spend 100% of your time innovating and delivering products that serve the industries you truly love. Come be the newest member of the Omnigon team!!
