Project Manager, Technology

Crossmedia is a global media independent committed to transparency and innovation in media planning and buying. The Project Manager – Technology is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of enterprise technology initiatives across the agency, ensuring projects are well-defined and successfully delivered.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple technology projects and workstreams through the full project lifecycle
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, delivery roadmaps, and status reporting
• Coordinate activities across business stakeholders, product owners, and development teams to ensure successful delivery
• Monitor project progress, proactively manage risks, and ensure alignment with scope, priorities, timelines, and business objectives
• Support release planning, implementation activities, and post-launch follow-up
• Serve as the primary point of coordination between business and technology teams
• Facilitate project meetings, discovery sessions, sprint planning, backlog reviews, workshops, and status updates
• Communicate project status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Translate technical concepts into business-friendly language and business needs into actionable project plans
• Build collaborative relationships across departments to drive alignment and successful execution
• Partner with business product owners to understand workflows, operational challenges, priorities, and desired outcomes
• Collaborate with technical product owners and development teams on prioritization, backlog management, requirements refinement, delivery planning, and implementation
• Support discovery efforts by documenting workflows, requirements, decisions, and success criteria
• Ensure business requirements remain aligned with technical solutions throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and scope changes
• Develop mitigation strategies, resolve delivery blockers, and escalate issues with recommendations when appropriate
• Maintain project documentation, governance artifacts, status reports, decision logs, and project communications
• Contribute to improving project management standards, delivery processes, reporting, templates, and operational workflows while fostering accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of experience in project management, technology project delivery, product operations, business operations, or a related discipline
• Experience leading technology, software development, automation, data, infrastructure, or enterprise solution initiatives
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional projects involving both business and technical stakeholders
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, governance practices, and delivery frameworks
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, sprint planning, backlog management, and software development lifecycles
• Experience developing project plans, timelines, status reports, risk registers, and project documentation
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or similar platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects while maintaining attention to detail
• Experience in media, advertising, analytics, AI, or technology-driven organizations is a plus
• CAPM, PMP, Agile, Scrum, or similar project management certification is a plus