*Job Requisition Number:*47896
The Role:
Bloomberg Media is looking for a Project Manager with a strong interest in leading and coordinating digital projects involving multiple cross-functional teams (including Technology, Product, Editorial, Design and Sales) as part of the Consumer Mobile team. Working closely with Product Managers and the Director, Program Management will help drive key initiatives and contribute to the transformation and adoption of critical business processes for the organization. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of various development methodologies including Agile/Scrum and traditional Project Management as well as demonstrate an ability to successfully manage cross discipline teams. Experience working in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment is highly desired and the ability to remain flexible and adaptable is a must.
Responsibilities:
- Lead project teams using both agile and traditional project management methodologies
- Manage multiple projects of medium to large scale through all sprints/iterations and phases of the project
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
- Determine and remove obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams' to deliver assigned goals
- Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Lead and direct the project team to remain on schedule and on budget
- Coordinate and communicate cross team dependencies and risks
- Management of change requests and the impact on project schedules
- Assist in defining and deploying new processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes
Skills/Qualifications:
- Strong project management and delivery processes/methodology skill sets - knowledge of Agile project management methodology
- Experience with the development of mobile apps and a strong understanding of app development technologies, third party applications and platforms, and social media
- Strong organization, presentation and communication skills, written and verbal
- Self-starter requiring minimum supervision with enthusiastic can-do attitude
- Excellent organizational, diplomatic, and problem-solving skills within a rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrable knowledge of working effectively with cross-functional teams in high pace projects is a must
- Ability to motivate, support and understand your teams and work easily with everyone from our visual designers to our tech developers to our content strategists
- Ability to cope well under pressure in an extremely fast-paced environment
- Scrum Master Certification a plus
*The Company:*
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.