Job description
About Mad Engine
Founded in 1987, Mad Engine has grown to become the leading global licensed apparel wholesaler with top brands including Marvel, Star Wars, Disney and Nickelodeon. Mad Engine’s footprint spans multiple continents, with unique locations dedicated to design, customer service, manufacturing, quality assurance and distribution. This enables us to fully meet the needs of every customer, ensuring the best customer experience possible.
About Engineering at Mad Engine
Printing and E-Commerce landscapes are continuously evolving, and Mad Engine aims to be at the forefront of technology in the space. We are operating a proprietary platform that integrates directly with many of the industry leading printing systems and marketplaces.
With facilities in Chico California, Hebron Kentucky, Ensenada and Tijuana Mexico, you can either join us in person or remotely. Our software engineering team is a remote-first team that highly values a healthy work/life balance and promoting from within.
About this Position at Mad Engine
We are looking for a highly organized, detailed-oriented individual to join our software development team to function in the role of Project Management. The general responsibility of this position involves overseeing software projects throughout the entire software development life cycle, helping to ensure project completion and success. The Project Manager will be one of the primary conduits between software development and stakeholders, bridging communication gaps to ensure that projects are well defined and actionable. This position reports to the Director of Software Engineering and works closely with the entire software development team.
As a Software Project Manager, you will…
- Directly work with all internal and external stakeholders, gathering and documenting new features and improvement requests
- Meet with lead architects and engineers to scope out and plan projects
- Help lead the software engineering team’s Scrum sprint meetings and workflows
- Ensure every user story has properly defined requirements and acceptance criteria
- Regularly follow up with members of the engineering team on progress and blockers, and communicate project status to stakeholders
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
- Bridge communication between software development and the rest of the business, ensuring that all key parties are kept current
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Work with leadership to flesh out future commitments and turn those into actionable project plans
- Aid in planning quarterly and yearly software roadmaps, and help to keep those roadmaps current
- Work within JIRA to define dashboards and reports, groom backlogs, define epics, user stories and prioritization, and help keep the JIRA system as accurate as possible
- Define and measure KPIs in relation to ongoing and future projects
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project execution
Your qualifications include…
- At least 5 years of software project management experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills across disciplines, in both English and Spanish
- Experience in working with software developers, engineers or similar high functioning technical staff
- Proven track record of delivering high quality software projects
- Proven ability to solve problems creatively
- Strong organizational and decision-making skills
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience in a variety of agile project management techniques, including Scrum and Kanban
- Experience seeing projects through the full software development life cycle
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to quantitatively measure project performance and effectiveness
- Strong interpersonal skills and extreme resourcefulness
- Good presentation skills with the ability to disseminate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work with software developers to derive time estimations on complex software solutions
- Strong skills in utilizing JIRA or similar software such as Azure DevOps
- A great attitude and can-do spirit
- Ability to work in a fast paced, ever changing environment
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