Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquare’s location tech stack is being utilized by the world’s largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

Foursquare’s flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK);  data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Unfolded Studio). 

About the Team

This role falls under our PMO organization. The PMO team is responsible for defining, implementing, and maintaining the standards for program and project management across multiple organizations at Foursquare. Project Managers drive our product enhancements, technical integrations, and cross-functional projects with Executive-level visibility.

About the Role

The Technical Project Manager will work on cross-functional projects and programs with Executive-level visibility. Example programs include post-merger integration, User Privacy enhancements, and clean room integrations. These strategic programs need a Technical Project Manager to take a concept, develop a point of view, and lead the delivery across a wide range of teams internally and externally. The Technical Project Manager will join the PMO, reporting to the Director of Technical Program Management.

You will own the definition and delivery of programs, bringing expertise in both project management and building relationships with stakeholders across a wide set of functions. Through collaboration with business partners and engineering teams, this role will drive forward strategic initiatives that will massively impact the operational efficiency of Foursquare.

Responsibilities of the Role

• Project Managers drive our product enhancements, technical integrations, and cross-functional projects with Executive-level visibility
• Communicate project status and risk to relevant stakeholders, team, and partners, including up the management chain, escalating when appropriate on trade-off decisions
• Manage a diverse portfolio of projects, identifying goals, objectives, and iterative deliverables for implementation. Document requirements (using Jira and Confluence). Create quarterly OKRs, including Objective statements and KRs to assess impact. Balance competing factors (risk mitigation and issue resolution, dependency management, highest-ROI, etc.) to effectively maximize impact to customers.
• Maintain and grow relationships with our technical counterparts at our strategic partners including, but not limited to, DSPs, DMPs, CDPs, Cloud Service providers
• Act as internal subject matter expert on current channel integrations and integration capabilities with the ability to clearly communicate operational workflow to customer-facing teams

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Specific Software languages or Systems
• Experience working at the most senior levels of leadership & with external partners
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and connecting business context and customer impact to engineering tasks
• Understand software engineering fundamentals
• BA/BS degree

Nice to have

• Scrum Master or Product Owner certified
• Experience in location, data platforms, and/ or marketing technology
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence

Perks and benefits

• Learning and development programs from individual contributors to managers
• Individual, professional coaching for all full-time employees
• Flexible time off - rest and recharge when you need it!
• Comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Home office setup: you get all necessary hardware and internet reimbursement 
• Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven
• Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.