Senior Technology Operations

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role. This is a full-time, on-site position located at our Dallas, TX office and is not eligible for remote work.

About the Team

VIZIO is a pioneer in software and OS development for our Smart TVs. We are actively looking for a Technical Program Manager who is smart, pays attention to detail, and excels in critical thinking to manage the delivery of the software development process and define our roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Enhance existing operations and platform projects as a proactive and forward-thinking senior-level technical project manager.
• Manage implementation efforts of our operations platforms, monitoring and leading engineering teams to ensure milestones and deadlines are met.
• Lead engineering teams to deliver products and solutions for sophisticated embedded systems.
• Provide outstanding leadership to the program team to deliver projects/programs on time, with high quality, and excellent results.
• Perform overall program-level planning and lead program execution of interdependent projects, driving effective and accurate status reporting.
• Identify risks and issues, and develop risk mitigation strategies and associated processes.
• Identify critical partners and required engagement models, handling effective decision-making with leadership and engineering teams.
• Supervise the overall roadmap, identify and report potential obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls, and problems with schedule and release delays.
• Communicate with software engineers, product managers, and development teams.
• Conduct data analysis to deliver insights for Engineering Managers.
• Demonstrate outstanding communication and presentation skills to engineers, managers, and executives.
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution to program issues.
• Help the team with ongoing improvements to the program management processes.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Marketing teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of demonstrated ability in both engineering development and project/program management.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or a similar field.
• Ability to drive multi-functional efforts across major technical fields: SW, HW, Product, and QA.
• Excellent communication, writing, and self-starter skills.
• Solid knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire team members.
• Solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Kanban development methodologies.
• Good understanding of OS systems, media, and system architecture.
• Sound understanding of UX and UI development.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with many different personality types.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment.
• Excellent planning, time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools and capacity planning, as well as solid experience with JIRA & Confluence.
• Solid experience and comfort partnering with engineering teams throughout feature development from architecture, design, implementation, and validation.
• Own roadmap, priorities, prioritization, and timelines for technologies.
• Solid understanding of code repositories (GitHub/BitBucket) and build processes.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, performance-based bonus awards, and other great benefits.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $80,000.00 - $155,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for certain positions.

Schedule

Full-time, on-site role at our Dallas, TX office.