Project Manager V 41674-1

17 Feb Project Manager V 41674-1

Job Title: Project Manager V 41674-1Duration: 12 Months with possible extension or conversionJob Type: W2Location: Pittsburgh, PAJob Description:For this role, RLR Codec Avatars, is looking for an exceptional Program Manager to join our team. If your passion and experience lies in working with multidisciplinary teams and building the right processes and methodologies for data collection and deployment of new data collection sites; if you’ve had experience in data collection with complex cutting edge technology; if you thrive helping your team coordinate and collaborate in the face of ambitious and ambiguous challenges, taking on work that has never been done before; we might have a spot for you.Responsibilities-Coordinating multiple parallel data collection efforts. Reviewing, balancing, and prioritizing requests from various stakeholders in the organization.-Partnering with engineering leads to set goals, direction, and strategy for data collection operations team. Translating goals into plans for integration including procedural modifications, training and staffing requirements. Analyze technology readiness, resource needs, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.-Define operations workflows for data collection-Keeping partners and stakeholders informed and involved. Being able to represent your program at a deep level throughout the org, to be able to build the appropriate communication channels both within and outside the team.-Setting and maintaining expectations. Ensuring the team has a unified clear vision, understood goals, and expectations of progress.-Being responsible for the rules of reality. Ensuring work is adequately resourced and scoped. Effectively escalating or directly resolving resourcing issues to accomplish the team’s mission.-Keeping the team unblocked and effective. Ensuring the operations team members are able work at their highest potential. That conflicts (both technical and interpersonal) have paths toward resolution to allow the team to move forward.-Convey high priority issues to engineering teams for resolution-Coordinate with cross functional partners, privacy, environmental health and safety, security, etc to ensure guidelines are met for data collection participants-Logistics and vendor management.-Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates-Track and report on operations budget-Travel 25% of the time to future sites, current sitesWhat we are looking for: a Non Technical Project Manager focused on operations & people managementA Project Manager focused on the following-People OperationsLogistics/planning – 2 years of experienceUser Studies – 2 yearsOverall Project manager experience – 5 yearsMinimum Qualifications-3+ years of relevant industry experience.-2+ years of program management experience.-Experience with hardware and software integration, developing operational workflows-Project management, leadership, task tracking, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience.-Experience leading a team from concept to completion of a program.-Communication/presentation ability through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.Preferred Qualifications-Demonstrated experience in user experience studies and/or data collection-Ability to track budgets and create reliable quarterly estimates-Experience developing study procedures and implementing staff training programs-Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers-Experience with privacy and policy around research and/or user data-Demonstrable experience in risk management, managing sensitive data, assessing study risks and mitigating study risks-Experience with machine learning and computer vision