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Program Manager,Senior-IEB-Microsoft Studios-LA (819830) Job
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Date: Dec 13, 2012
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Job ID: 819830-99668
Division: Interactive Entertainment Business
The future of TV has just begun and it is getting a whole lot more interesting - MS Studios LA is continuing on this path of innovation and developing new content and programming that will make interactive TV come to life across many genres.
Are you an energetic self-starter looking for an opportunity to define and drive strategy, work with partners, influence the ecosystem and be part of a unique creative, production and engineering team developing interactive technology in concert with the development of innovative content and programming?
As the Senior Program Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that initiatives coming from MS Studios LA are effectively collaborating across the Interactive Entertainment Business and Microsoft Studios. You will partner closely with production teams and interface across multiple platform engineering and business teams in driving programs.
Requirements:
- Strong project management skills, written as well as oral communication skills, strong customer service orientation and an ability to negotiate and collaborate with other teams, partners and customers across multiple businesses.
- Experience in building consumer products is required and experience in the TV ecosystem and working with content production is strongly desired.
- Partner with the GM for LA Studios to define and drive strong engineering and production practices for designing, implementing and shipping high quality content on iterative and fast paced schedules and will participate in cross team initiatives.
- Collaborate with industry partners, engineering, design, creative, content production and marketing teams to build plans for innovation.
- Be responsible for identifying key themes of interactivity that can scale across a broad set of partners.
- Must be able to work with content producers and technology teams to identify and prioritize platform requirements.
Desired Qualifications:
- Proven experience to influence and lead across teams to deliver a vision and high quality products on time.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of software engineering principles and ability to drive through full product cycles from product conception through to shipping.
- A strong track record of leading, hiring, managing, coaching or motivating a team is required along with outstanding business and customer focused design and specification skills.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or comparable technical discipline and business knowledge) is required.
- 10 or more years development experience related to defining, managing, and shipping high quality consumer software products.
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