Friday 1 August 2014

Technical Program Manager - Mobile | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Technical Program Manager - Mobile | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Technical Program Manager - Mobile

Location

San Francisco

Description

Description
We're looking for a strong technical program manager with experience regularly shipping mobile application updates on multiple platforms. A strong candidate would have opportunity to extend into helping with the continuous deployment of web application releases as well, potentially growing a release management group within Pinterest.
Role & Responsibilities:
  • Release management of Pinterest on iOS and Android
  • Defining release schedules and processes, including how to escalate critical issues to "hotfix" releases
  • Communicating status and project details across multiple groups within the organization
  • Documenting release history and maintain change management records
  • Co-ordinating with engineering, product, design, localization, QA, operations, and business analytics teams
  • Managing, developing and extending tools for release management
  • Analyzing, identifying and implementing process improvements
  • Analyzing usage metrics for mobile applications, identifying patterns and opportunities for improvement
  • Being a critical team member in the group responsible for delivering a great mobile Pinterest experience.
The ideal candidate has:
  • Strong project management and communication skills,
  • A strong technical foundation in order to be conversant with engineers,
  • Experience producing mobile applications that interact with cloud based services fronted by APIs,
  • Experience shipping both new applications and maintenance releases to existing applications,
  • Experience with various development and release management models (ex: Agile, Kanban),
  • Familiarity with GitHub, Jenkins, iOS and Android build environments,
  • Basic experience with data analysis and SQL, and
  • Decent programming knowledge and a proficiency with scripting languages.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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