Senior Engineering Project Manager

Summary

Join a dynamic team at Ambient as a Senior Engineering Project Manager, overseeing technical projects across multiple teams, ensuring smooth processes, and contributing to strategic problem-solving.

Requirements

• Prior experience with technical or engineering project management in a senior-level role, ideally in a similar sized startup or small-to-medium sized technology company
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, with the capacity to determine priorities and quickly respond to updates while continuing to provide accurate timelines
• Enough technical knowledge to understand how a system works at a high level and be able to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with standard project management tools (we use Jira and Productboard) and platforms for documentation (we use Notion and Google Docs)
• Clear and concise communication skills, with the ability and confidence to navigate across multiple different teams and types of subject matter
• Comfortable taking ambiguous and potential unclear problems and breaking them down into actionable steps
• A high level of interest in and curiosity for the smart home and smart apartments space

Responsibilities

• Manage technical projects across multiple teams including software engineering, mobile, product design, quality engineering, operations, and other business teams
• Work directly with engineers, making sure tickets are being completed and leading the SDLC process as needed
• Communicate with stakeholders across business and operations teams at Ambient, while also contributing to learning and knowledge sharing efforts in training and forum style meetings, depending on the context
• Keep project statuses up to date in Jira and Productboard, and maintain all relevant documentation in Google Docs and Notion

Preferred Qualifications

• Coding experience (we primarily use Python and Golang)
• Experience with our particular set of project management tools, Jira and Productboard
• Experience with design tools like Figma
• Experience with quality tracking software (we use Testrails)