Job Description
SmartNews is a leading news aggregation app for mobile devices. It analyzes millions of articles to deliver the most engaging information of a high quality, in near-real time fashion, to millions of users around the world. To support our vision, we are building and improving platform functions. Such development poses lots of challenges regarding program management.
You will join as a Technical Program Manager to lead technically complex programs in SmartNews to success.
Responsibilities
- Lead technically complex programs to success
- Define success metrics and roadmaps from high-level business goals and strategies
- Identify areas of influence, and drive technical decision-making and alignment of cross-functional teams
- Carry out all required communication to make programs successful
- Manage execution of development including development, testing, etc
- Perform data-driven analysis and investigate existing system behavior
- Document and report on programs and project statuses, roadmap plans and progress, new program and project proposals, follow up on project and program plans
- Prepare, execute and analyze results of A/B tests
- Prepare and maintain technical-level KPIs, OKRs, and SLIs/SLOs/SLAs
Requirements
- SQL, Spark, Hive, or similar data querying skills
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or experience in software application development
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Track record of understanding product requirements and translating those requirements into actual technical specifications
- Track record of program or project management that involves multiple engineering and product teams
- Track record of technical program management or project delivery experience as an engineer
- Ability to understand technical architecture design for basic systems
- Business-level English
Preferred Experiences
- Track record of experience in engineering in large-scale machine learning, data engineering, distributed systems, or similar areas
- Business-level Japanese
- Experiences defining technical specifications for micro-services
About スマートニュース
スマートニュース株式会社は「世界中の良質な情報を必要な人に送り届ける」ことをミッションとし、独自開発のウェブ解析技術を基盤に、アメリカと日本を中心に世界5000万ダウンロードを超える「SmartNews」を運用しています。また、創業者の1人がエンジニア出身であり、ITを重視するテクノロジー企業です。
スマートニュースの開発チームは非常にダイバシティ豊かです。東京とサンフランシスコ、パロアルト、上海、北京に開発オフィスがあり、世界トップレベルのエンジニアが集まっています 「One Product, One Team」の哲学に基づき、日米で異なるタイムゾーンや言語、物理的環境でありながらも、活動のコードベースは1つ、そしてチームも1つでグローバルプロダクト開発体制をつくっています。英語もしくは日本語どちらかが流暢に話せれば応募可能なポジションもあり、優秀なグローバルメンバーと国際的な環境で働きたい日本人にとっても、すばらしい環境です。 日本語、英語の学習サポートもあります。
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