Senior Technical Project Manager – Online Media

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery and launch of a large-scale, high-traffic digital media website.


• Act as the operational owner of the project, proactively identifying risks, removing blockers, and driving execution.


• Establish and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and delivery frameworks.


• Review wireframes, designs, and technical requirements to assess complexity and define implementation strategies.


• Break down project scope into structured development tasks and actionable deliverables.


• Anticipate technical dependencies and constraints related to content migration, data flows, advertising, and integrations.


• Gather and clarify requirements by collaborating with stakeholders and securing alignment across teams.


• Serve as the primary liaison between design, editorial, product, and engineering teams.


• Ensure technical specifications, CMS integrations, APIs, analytics tools, and advertising platforms are properly implemented.


• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Standups, Reviews, and Demos.


• Own and maintain Jira backlogs, ensuring stories, tasks, bugs, and requirements are clearly documented and prioritized.


• Coordinate development activities to ensure projects remain on schedule and within scope.


• Track project progress and provide regular status updates to leadership and stakeholders.


• Drive accountability across teams and maintain momentum toward critical launch deadlines.


• Support continuous process improvement and delivery best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Proven experience successfully leading high-traffic website launches, complex digital product deployments, or large-scale content migration projects.


• Strong background working with digital media, publishing, news, content-rich, or aggregation platforms.


• Understanding of publisher-specific technologies, including advertising integrations, analytics, search functionality, dynamic content modules, and data feeds.


• Hands-on experience managing projects involving Content Management Systems such as Contentful, WordPress, Drupal, AEM, or similar enterprise platforms.


• Strong understanding of how structured content flows from CMS platforms to frontend experiences.


• Expert-level experience managing Agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban methodologies.


• Advanced proficiency with Atlassian Jira and Confluence for backlog management, sprint planning, and project tracking.


• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and modern software delivery practices.


• Strong technical literacy with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, architects, and technical stakeholders.


• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across product, design, content, and engineering disciplines.


• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.


• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while maintaining ownership and accountability for delivery outcomes.

Hard Skills

• project management


• content migration


• Agile delivery frameworks


• Scrum


• Kanban


• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)


• CMS integrations


• API implementation


• analytics tools


• digital product deployments

Soft Skills

• stakeholder management


• communication


• organization


• problem-solving


• leadership


• accountability


• collaboration


• risk management


• process improvement


• adaptability

Industry Keywords

• high-traffic websites


• digital media


• publishing


• content-rich platforms


• project lifecycle


• technical specifications


• cross-functional teams


• frontend experiences


• stakeholder alignment


• delivery frameworks

Tools & Technologies

• Jira


• Confluence


• Contentful


• WordPress


• Drupal


• AEM


• digital media platforms


• advertising integrations


• data feeds


• dynamic content modules