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Lead Tech Project Mgr

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Seattle, WA, USA
148K-219K Annually
Senior level
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Seattle, WA, USA
148K-219K Annually
Senior level
The Lead Technical Project Manager oversees complex software projects, ensuring timely delivery by managing cross-functional teams and resources across multiple disciplines.
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Job Posting Title:

Lead Tech Project Mgr

Req ID:

10147592

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The Lead Technical Project Manager is responsible for delivering complex software development projects working with teams across multiple disciplines in a geographically dispersed organization, including working with vendors. The Lead Technical Project Manager will concurrently manage multiple medium to large digital projects across web and mobile applications, and/or one or more specific tracks within much larger scale programs, with oversight from a Program Manager. The Technical Project Manager ensures on-time and on-schedule delivery for their projects working closely with Product, Technology, and Design. 

What You Will Do:

Project Estimation

  • Facilitate scope definition, and high-level planning, discovery, and estimation workshops for projects with cross-functional teams

  • Quantify cost factors to deliver project deliverables including resources, project oversight, objective risk and related contingency

  • Document key assumptions and dependencies established through estimation activities

  • Prepare and present high-level plan with estimates for executives and cross-functional leaders based on estimate outcomes

Project Planning

  • Create project schedule and communication plans

  • Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks

  • Establish project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans

  • Develop the project plan and schedule with cross discipline functional leads

  • Ensure necessary steps and dependencies to deliver projects and components are established

  • Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget

  • Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads

Project Delivery

  • Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks of large programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered on-time and on-budget

  • Manage resource assignment, budget, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change control

  • Work with cross discipline team members to validate project assumptions and review project plans with leadership

  • Ensure proper documentation of scope of work with help from cross discipline functional leads

  • Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors and other key functional delivery teams for the project (when appropriate)

  • Communicate regular updates to project and executive leadership team on delivery progress, plan updates and budget spend and forecast, including status report updates, financial/budget/variance reports, and other reporting as required

  • Monitor adherence to schedule and milestone commitments

  • Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation

  • Prevent scope creep, record causes of change, and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget, as well as forecasts, are approved and communicated in a timely manner

  • Use metrics, including burn-down charts, to drive performance, efficiency and forecast improvements

  • Ensure proper project closure including retroactives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting

Qualifications:

  • Minimum of 7 years of related work experience.

  • Strong project leader with experience in leading large, multidisciplinary digital teams (preferably websites, mobile web, and apps)

  • Agile delivery experience

  • Mobile application (iOS, Android) delivery experience

  • Experience in a matrixed responsibility organization working with multiple Product Managers per effort

  • Strong experience facilitating the gathering and development of requirements for complex solutions

  • Possesses significant practical experience in the basics of project management (estimation, project planning, resource planning, issue management, risk management, change management, communication planning).

  • Experienced in multiple full lifecycle software deliveries from business development to final software acceptance

  • Led teams with multiple discipline represented (including product management/strategy, technology, design, SEO, and analytics)

  • Proven accomplishment as a driver of multiple projects running concurrently 

  • Proven track record managing individual project budgets and budget roll-up of multiple projects

  • Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities

  • Able to confidently lead teams to a successful delivery approach

  • Able to work both collaboratively and independently while maintaining a high level of productivity

  • Able to work under tight timetables and high pressure situations

  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment and able to juggle, shift gears, and maintain a sense of humor; deliver under extreme deadlines and intense business environment

  • Must possess excellent business communication, writing, and interpersonal skills

  • Proactive and solution-oriented when managing issues

  • Comfortable when communicating with executive level (Directors, VPs) in presentations, working sessions, and 1-on-1 interactions

  • Practiced in negotiating with others in ways that result in win/win agreements and outcomes

  • Must be open to coaching and guidance

  • Exhibit good judgment skills on when to seek guidance and when to escalate risks and issues

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $148,300 to $198,800 per year, in Burbank, CA is $155,700 to $208,700 per year and in Seattle, WA is $163,100 to $218,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Products & Experiences

Primary Job Posting Category:

Project Management Tech

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Orlando, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave, USA - FL - 200 Celebration Place, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2026-04-27

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