Technical Program Manager- W2 & Benefits Provided - Freelance [Remote]

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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $70-$80 /hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
• BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 8058
• LOCATION: Remote - United States only - PST/CIST | Partial overlap
• EXPERIENCE: 3-5 years

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
Summary:
The main function of a Technical Program Manager is to provide successful definition, implementation and delivery of complex programs that require cross-functional collaboration and interdependencies across a group of projects and/or related activities.
Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a group or groups of internal exempt and matrixed employees and contractors that serve on the project(s) to deliver systems and systems enhancements that meet specified requirements.
• Collaborate and coordinate with xfunc HW partners on build specifications and final allocation for XRT
• Oversight of project scope definition and management, requirements gathering and documentation, time estimating, project schedule development and tracking, project budget management, project status reporting, issue and risk management, contingency planning, customer interaction, and communications across multiple organizational levels.
• Deliver programs within the constraints of scope, quality, time and budget and under circumstances involving multiple moderate-probability, moderate-impact risk factors.
• Specifically, this role will:
• Coordinate across XRT work-streams on aggregating device needs and delivery (across different locations and sites)
• Program-level strategic planning, interaction with executive level management, complex issue resolution, excellent communications and team building skills.
• Define, document, implement and own device allocation process, tracker documents and systems across AR and VR devices for XR Tech
• Device management: distribution (allocation lock) and in-take (returns) and administrative controls to unlock devices as needed

What You’ll Be Working On
Skills:

• Proven bias for action and sense of urgency
• Experience with software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible/ adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment and to manage competing priorities
• Proven ability to learn business processes quickly and to work well with business partners at different levels within the organization
• Proven people management and team building skills
• Strong ability to assess risk and apply management principles to technology applications/products and business functions
• Experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a large-scale, multi-platform systems environment
• Excellent communication and co-ordination
• Project estimating, project scheduling & tracking, customer interaction and management, implementation planning in large organizations

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
• PMP or PMI certification

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C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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