Location: New York, NY
URL: http://about.com
About.com, is looking for a talented and detail oriented project manager to manage and work with its common infrastructure components: file replication, CMS, click-tracking, authentication, search, web metrics. This position will work with various stake-holders to build and maintain common, reusable, and extensible systems across various teams and divisions in a mixed OS but UNIX-centric product development environment.
The ideal candidate will be very familiar with web based technologies and understand the benefit of providing reusable and consistent components to various business organizations. This position calls for a motivated and meticulous team player that believes both in Agile Software Development and leveraging Open Source Solutions. This is a hands-on position that requires both active long term product management and day-to-day internal request support and active communication to both technical and non-technical team members.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure for the continued accuracy, reliability, scalibility, and reusability of About.com’s systems. Work with other team members and divisions to define and implement needed new functionality as viewed from a component and reuse perspective and a data driven model rather than hard coded one-offs
- Assisting the business-side in assessing scope, costs, and impacts of proposed major product changes as well as fleshing out product requirements after a positive decision has been made to execute.
- Aggregating requested changes into logical releases that can be developed and deployed efficiently with minimal risks to system up-time.
- Manage expectations of stake-holders. This is inclusive of actually managing resources involved either directly or indirectly.
- Support various business units in understanding the benefits of using common infrastructure components.
- Documentation, including providing working examples of usage, of infrastructure components
To apply: Send resume to lrenga@about.com. Subject line MUST read "technical project manager" for consideration.