We’re looking for a passionate program/project manager to be a key driver of Yahoo Shopping‘s initiatives. In this position, you will be responsible for managing the execution of all site testing related efforts as well as managing the resource allocation and project schedules for a cross-functional team to deliver new products within the Shopping property. Experience in consumer facing web-based software project management extremely desirable.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with product managers, engineers and designers across multiple shopping product categories to drive delivery of industry leading high quality products.
- Author and manage comprehensive schedules for multiple simultaneous product development and operational initiatives and drive definition of deliverables, milestones and dependencies.
- Develop and maintain detailed resource allocation plans and schedules for matrixed team across functional groups and ensure alignment of team allocation with priorities of the shopping business unit.
- Drive adherence to plans and processes and take responsibility for achieving team deliverables, hitting target milestones, and managing risks to the schedule throughout the full product lifecycle.
- Communicate status and progress to key stakeholders throughout the company and serve as single point of contact for all project status items, including project risks and open issues.
- Drive site level shopping related testing efforts. Will include managing testing schedule, resources allocation, tracking & reporting, and communicating results to the appropriate stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Experience managing 25+ person cross-functional project teams.
- 3-5 years in consumer-facing web based product development experience
- A proven track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously, building appropriate processes and tools and delivering results
- Expertise in developing detailed plans for complex projects involving challenging requirements, limited resources, and fixed deadlines.
- Deep understanding of project management principles including dependency identification, critical path analysis, contingency planning and trade-off analysis between time, features and resources.
- Familiarity with standard product and project management practices and procedures, including familiarity with project management software such as Microsoft Project
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships and collaborate with variety of personalities and styles
- BA/BS required.
Please e-mail all resumes to: andym@yahoo-inc.com
Email Subject: Job Code 6567
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