Sr Technical Program Manager - Video Engineering (Remote)

Pluto TV, a Paramount Global company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.

Are you a hardworking agile program manager looking to join a rapidly-expanding PMO? We are seeking an individual with strong technical skills, experience in agile methodologies, and a track record of motivating teams to deeper levels of agility and self-organization.

Individuals should be highly skilled Agile program management professionals, great teammates, lifelong learners, and phenomenal communications, with a passion for servant-leadership. Your primary responsibility will be serving as the scrum master for two of our agile development teams, building out Pluto's native applications.

• Manage day-to-day agile ceremonies at the team level.
• Drive cross-team communication and maintain healthy cross-team relationships by providing accurate and proactive project tracking to the larger organization.
• Participating in quarterly big-room planning, balancing dependencies with the Program Management Office, and setting delivery dates.
• Implementing agile best practices to govern the team.
• Actively identifying and removing impediments that may impact team velocity or deliverables.
• Working as a servant-leader within the team, using leadership skills to cultivate healthy and productive working relationships.

• 5+ years experience as an agile project manager/scrum master and knowledge of Agile principles (Scrum and/or Kanban). Specific experience implementing agile with new teams and acting as an organizational change agent.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification required. Agile certifications such as PMI-ACP, CSP, SPC4 (or higher), or SA are recommended.
• Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies, with demonstrated success driving those teams to higher levels of productivity and efficiency.
• Experience working as part of a larger PMO to deliver complex solutions, working through an agile process to call out issues, remove impediments, and manage risk.
• Experience resolving conflicts within the development team and coaching teams to become better-aligned and higher functioning, with an eye on leveraging those team skills to increase the speed and quality of software delivery.
• Experience managing expectations, negotiating compromises, and interfacing between a technical team and business partners.
• Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and high level video encoding and streaming concepts (e.g., MPEG-DASH, HLS, adaptive streaming, etc.,) is a plus

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