Technical Program Manager

**Technical Program Manager**

Mexico -Remote

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a Seattle-based non-profit, is looking for a technical project manager to help drive AI2's EarthRanger wildlife conservation project.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Decompose complex product features into specific use cases and detailed technical requirements that are ready for development
- Create and execute on roadmaps, project plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables.
- Coordinate and monitor development team workflows to ensure cohesion and efficiency
- Maintain a strong understanding of the feature pipeline and your team's work capacity
- Evaluate and refine team process to empower team members to deliver high-quality work
- Engage with customers, including product partners, vendors and technical stakeholders to better understand the product and their needs
- Work with support and training teams to prepare users to take advantage of new product developments
- Identifies opportunities and leads efforts to improve program methodology excellence and best practices within the product

**Qualifications**
- Experience in managing Agile software development projects, software development life cycle and quality processes, such as scoping, costs, schedules, deliverables, change and risk management, and mitigation
- Deep intuitive sense for building effective software products that exceed users' expectations
- Strong technical aptitude. Can converse with technical partners, development team, and QA engineers at a highly technical level.
- Experience breaking down user stories into development deliverables
- A strong delivery focus and the willingness perform all tasks required to complete the job and meet deadlines
- Strong presentation and training delivery experience
- Well organized, detailed planning and scheduling expertise. Can juggle multiple tasks without losing sight of high priority items.
- Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills to effect the right outcome for the team/customer. Ability to influence and motivate people across a broad variety of job functions.
- Experience developing SaaS offerings
- Use of Project Management Software (Jira, SmartSheets or similar)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years in technical program management in a related industry, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
- Must be passionate about nature and wildlife conservation

**Qualifications**
- Driven the development of a project using a map based approach with real-time aspects.
- Proven results from establishing and optimizing software engineering processes for different organizations/environments
- Previous global program management experience working with highly matrixed teams.
- Oversaw projects hosted in Azure, AWS or GCP

**About Nimble Gravity**

Nimble Gravity is a team of outdoor enthusiasts, adrenaline seekers, and experienced growth hackers. We love solving hard problems and believe the right data can transform and propel growth for any organization.

Nimble Gravity Product Engineering collaborates closely with the EarthRanger team, to work on their software that helps conservationists make informed operational decisions. EarthRanger helps prevent the poaching of endangered species, fight deforestation, promote human-wildlife coexistence, and advocate for legal protection of wildlife.
- Nimble Gravity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Nimble Gravity considers all qualified applicants._