Thursday, January 3, 2013

[KITlist-Tech] Technical Program Manager | Elance Headquarters (Mountain View, CA)

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Elance is pioneering a new way to work, helping businesses level the playing field by providing them with access to great talent on demand. As a Technical Program Manager, you will partner with all cross-functional teams within Elance and provide both release management and program management leadership within the engineering team. If you are someone who is highly collaborative, are successful at developing stellar cross-functional relationships and thrives working in a hyper-growth, fast-paced environment, keep reading.

In this role, you will:

•Manage Elance release roadmap and releases
•Coordinate our weekly sprints, ensuring overall readiness and qalui
•Manage bug triages
•Lead review of projects and facilitate resource and time allocation for optimal execution.
•Engage with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-organization alignment, buy-in, and delivery
•Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent projects from delivering on their objectives
•Keep management and teams up-to-date on status, issues for all projects
•Manage hiring and onboarding with Elancers located around the world

To win in this role, you need:

•Bachelor´s degree, CS degree preferred
•5+ years of technical project or program management experience
•1+ years of hands-on technical release management experience
•Thorough understanding of agile software development processes and lifecycle
•Strong technical aptitude, and project / program management experience with software as a service
•Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration
•Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike
•Ability to work under tight deadlines while being flexible and responding to changing business and technical needs

About Us
Ready for a job that's part evolution, part revolution?
Elance is quickly evolving and moving into a revolutionary new market space: The online workplace.

Help us redefine the global workforce by building on our pioneering platform. You'll impact the lives of millions daily, freeing countless freelancers to work on what they want, from where they want. All while allowing businesses, startups and entrepreneurs to find top talent to help build their dreams.

We're always looking for A-players to join our team of bright and humorous people. If you take your work seriously, but love to laugh at yourself and with others, want to be challenged but have fun along the way, and never settle for anything less than stellar work, Elance is for you! In addition to amazing career growth opportunities, we also offer competitive compensation, great benefits, super cool people to work with, and a beautifully renovated workspace to collaborate and innovate in.

Visit us at www.elance.com and check out our openings in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Europe.


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