Senior Technical Project Manager - Nitro - San Francisco, CA

In this role, you will report directly to our VP of Engineering in San Francisco. You will be empowered and own project management of major cross-functional releases in the development of Nitro’s world-class cloud collaboration service, Nitro Cloud.

We practice Agile development, with an emphasis on rational, sustainable schedules. Your job is to make sure there is a strong, collaborative relationship between managers, architects, developers, product managers, and QE engineers to drive a comprehensive project timeline and delivery. This position offers a tremendous opportunity to interact with various functional groups while having the autonomy to make timely decisions and course correction.

What you'll be doing:
Build and manage cross functional major release schedulesWork side by side with the Nitro Product team to determine necessary artifacts to ensure smooth interaction between Product Management & Engineering.Collaborate with both Tech Ops & Dev Ops to ensure timely delivery of environments & tools.Work closely with a no-bullshit tightly knit engineering team to ensure schedules are met and risks are identified.Work closely with VP of Engineering on global project staffing, planning, & trackingTop 3 Signs That You’re a Strong Candidate You’re a natural leader. You understand the challenges in leading matrix organizations and thrive on driving to success.You’re startup You thrive in the creative, sometimes chaotic nature of startup environments. You have a strong background working in startups and the drive to work with the VP to scale a world-class engineering team.You love the early-adopter You understand how innovators and early adopters think and work and love being around creative people.What we're looking for:
You have project and/or product managed engineering projects before, let’s say 3-5 years, and you love it.You possess a track record of successfully working with engineers and love learning the technical challenges to assist in building effective plans and schedules.Working with various functional teams located around the world sounds like fun to youWorking in a fast paced two week sprint environment is something you have done and enjoyedWe are a Cloud service company and we’d like you to have experienceworking with Cloud technologies.Former colleagues would say that you are a leader who can drive, motivate and energize to push the envelope each and every dayYou have the ability to distill the company vision and product roadmap into every day tasks to ensure we are focused on the right thingsWhat we offer you:
We offer autonomy and empowerment. Sure, you could go work for one of those larger companies and be a cog or come here and thriveAwesome cutting edge technology and a team inspired to push the envelopA love of technology and technology culture. We sit around the espresso bar and talk about great things we learned at the latest hackathon or meet-ups. If this sounds like fun to you then come on byA great company vision and strategy with an opportunity to make a difference every dayA growing global company that offers the ability to prove yourself and try new opportunities with different groups or geographies9 Things That Describe You Startup mindedImpact focusedEnjoy creatingEntrepreneurial thinkerOpen communicatorCollaborative spiritProblem solverHighly accountableDecision DriverWho we are:
At Nitro, we're changing the way the world works with documents. From the desktop to the cloud, we make it easy to create, edit, share, sign and collaborate—online or offline.

More than 490,000 businesses run Nitro, including over 50% of the Fortune 500. We're the PDF software partner of choice for Lenovo®, and our award-winning products, including Nitro Pro and Nitro Cloud, are used by millions of people every month in nearly 200 countries.

Australian-founded, we're headquartered in downtown San Francisco with offices in Melbourne, Australia; Dublin, Ireland; Nitra, Slovakia; and St. Petersburg, Russia?. One of the fastest-growing private companies in the world, Nitro is also a multiple Inc. 500/5000, BRW Fast 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Software 500 award winner
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