Technical Project Manager
TransfrVR
IT, Operations
Remote
Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2024
Transfr is on a mission to create alternative pathways to career success. Our hands-on simulation-based training provides people with the skills they need to enter or reenter the workforce, enabling them to have a better quality of life. Our technology gives immersive training that the user absorbs much more readily than video tutorials, slide presentations, and other training methods.
We believe the future starts with innovative workplace training and hands-on skills development. We’re building bridges between schools, workplaces, and governments to make jobs more accessible and create a better tomorrow, today.
This is an exciting time! Demand for VR skills-based training has never been higher. Our startup is in hyper growth mode, scaling in every direction. We are looking for people that possess a true love for learning and have a burning desire to contribute to outcomes that change the world.
Summary: The Technical Project Manager role at Transfr is versatile, driven, and strong collaborator with engineering and product teams. This person will play an integral role in the deliverability of our core technology platforms, tools, and services.
You’ll work closely with a collaboration-oriented engineering team and have the opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways. You’ll also partner with our dedicated VR Studios team to stand up new processes that optimize workflows between VR and platform, provide expert knowledge to increase our software’s quality, and contribute to all phases of the VR development cycle with an emphasis on engineering initiatives.
Your main KPIs are tied to tracking of projects, addressing and elevating challenges, and ultimately the on-time completion of projects. Lastly, this role asks you to embody our 7 cultural values (Radical responsibility, teamwork, creativity, win-win mindset, personal growth, empathy, and humility).
Responsibilities:
- Managing competing priorities of assigned project(s) and/or team(s) as it relates to deliverables
- Day-to-day process optimizations that enable the reporting of critical KPIs
- Planning the end-to-end delivery of assigned project(s) through collaborative efforts
- Facilitating requirements gathering and estimation process to align stakeholders on scope
- Ensuring your project(s) assigned resources are efficiently utilized and aligns with plan and forecast
- Proactively identify and communicate potential risks, gaps, or timeline impacts to stakeholders
- Establishing methods to measure and monitor health, feasibility, and deliverability of assigned project(s)
- Monitoring and raising awareness of all business commitments related to assigned project(s) or team(s)
- Solution towards project(s) cost optimizations and reduction of cycle times whenever possible
- Identify, communicate, and resolve dependencies across your cross-functional teams (QA, Engineering, GTM, and VR Studio)
- Managing external vendor relationships (when applicable) to ensure timely completion of work
- Maintaining related project source material repositories, documentation, and task databases
- Effectively driving all necessary meetings and agile ceremonies (when applicable) to a conclusion
- Ensuring time/capacity tracking metrics are up to date for assigned project(s) and/or assigned teams
- Providing weekly summary to stakeholders that details progress, risk, timelines, and dependencies
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in project management or similar project leadership roles.
- Advanced knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Monday.com, Figma, and the G-suite.
- At least one related project management certification (CSM, PMP, CAPM, ACP).
- Extensive knowledge of agile, waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
- Demonstrable leadership in influencing process improvements for development teams.
- Strong communication and mediation skills, comfortable collaborating with and facilitating both highly technical and non-technical multi-discipline teams.
- Technical-minded with ability to comprehend work breakdowns and identify dependencies across art, engineering, and assess project scope at a high level.
- Experience in managing VR, game, simulation and training-related projects. (Preferred but not required)
- Experience leading engineering teams through the requirement breakdown and estimation process - including R&D projects that are nebulous in nature. (Preferred but not required)
- Experience working with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Instructional Designers. (Preferred but not required)
- Experience using Appscript within G-suite for automation and templates. (Preferred but not required)
- Experience with 3rd-party integrations connecting platforms like Jira to Monday.com. (Preferred but not required)
What We Offer
The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $120,000 and $140,000, with the actual base salary amount dependent on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s credentials, relevant experience, and primary job location. In addition to salary this role is eligible for additional company benefits such as stock options, 401(k), paid vacation and sick time, and medical/dental/vision insurance.
In Closing:
If you're looking to make a big difference in the lives of others, we invite you to join us on our mission to make learning more intuitive by helping individuals develop the skills they need for career success.
Be a part of creating pathways to prosperity by helping to develop training simulations to teach skills that lead to well-paying jobs, for all.
At Transfr, we embrace diversity because it breeds innovation. Transfr is an equal opportunity employer that participates in E-Verify committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants, consultants, and employees, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
**Must be authorized to work in the United States without restriction**
Learn more at transfrinc.com