Jackpot is on a mission to create the world’s leading digital entertainment experience and we’re starting by building the world’s most user-friendly digital lottery platform. We are continuing to grow our team, where you will be a key team member and contributor to the business. Our exceptional team members are alumni of some of the best companies in the world: StubHub, Google, Uber, GoPuff, Intuit, Twitch and more. Come build with us!
Overview
We are hiring a Technical Program Manager for Jackpot.com. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Technical Program Manager will be part of this innovative, collaborative and energetic team that is focused on creating our incredible lottery courier product in the United States. This is the perfect opportunity for you if you love facilitating complex projects, and creating efficient channels of communication between Engineering, Product, and other relevant stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage the overall planning, communication, and delivery of projects
- Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plan, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule
- Ensuring business requirements are captured accurately and completely
- Define the project objectives, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets, and measures of success
- Develop estimates and plans to manage the end-to end execution
- Facilitate day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and stakeholder expectations
- Act as the link between the assigned engineering resources and the product team providing transparency on progress
- Communicate to project team members, key stakeholders, and executives.
- Identify and communicate risks and work with Product and to mitigate them
- Serve as primary contact for project reporting
- Facilitate cross functional sessions for planning, alignment, prioritization, design, etc.
- Use problem-solving/critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges
- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis and evaluating progress/quality
- Ensure timely delivery, testing, and commissioning of all projects with minimal impact to business continuity
- Facilitate knowledge transfer around processes, technologies, and/or applications
- Ensure project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation
- Manage multiple project and program level initiatives concurrently
- Assess and lead organization through appropriate change management practices
- Provide feedback on better practices, based on experience running project, for continuous improvement
- Establish project reporting best practices and advise on working model improvements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree and proven experience in engineering, product/technical program management
- Proven experience managing multiple cross-functional and/or cross-team projects, demonstrating a high level of willingness to build on the work of others and to enable others to build on their work
- In-depth experience as a technical project manager, along with excellent communication skills and strong technical acumen
- In-depth experience developing and building key relationships and partnerships across internal technical teams and external entities and stakeholders
- Good cross IT and business communication, influence, and negotiation skills
- Ability to work collaboratively, thrive under pressure, ambiguity, and time constraints
- Ability to work through self-directed, ambiguous situations
Why JACKPOT.com
- 13th Salary – end of the year.
At the end of a successful year, a 13th salary is given.
- Flexible start of your day.
The start of working hours is flexible: from 7:30 to 09:30. You are free to start working at any time within the specified time interval, with respect to daily duties and pre-agreed obligations.
- Free access to online academies and courses/books.
Personal development is very important for us, and we see the growth of our team as critical to the growth of the company.
- Vacation Days loyalty.
You will receive 20 days of annual leave. After 5 years in the company, this amount will grow to 25 days.
