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Job Description

Project Manager, DevOps 

About the Position

Wirecutter is seeking an organized, action-oriented, hands-on project manager who can manage multiple projects in support of our DevOps team.  The DevOps team has an organization-wide impact by ensuring Wirecutter’s website infrastructure is secure, scalable and reliable.

You will be responsible for projects that focus on performance and reliability across our product. As a project manager at Wirecutter, you are a core member of a cross-functional team. As opportunities arise, you may also work across another product development or platform team to manage their projects to success.  You are expected to identify opportunities, suggest solutions, and act decisively when necessary to advance a project. This is a new position that reports to the Program Manager and will work closely with Project Management, Product Management, and Platform Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Embrace a servant leader role for software development teams, driving definition and execution of features and products

• Work with product management and engineering team leads to define goals, drive requirements, define scope, plan and sequence project work appropriately to meet objectives and timelines

• Coordinate with fellow project managers to identify and manage cross-team dependencies.  Proactively monitor risk and seek out, track, and remove barriers to successful project completion

• Maintain project schedules and roadmaps. You will track milestones and communicate status and progress to the project team, stakeholders, and leadership.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies and associated artifacts tailored to the teams’ needs.

• Champion agile processes, while also inspecting when practices need to be examined and adapted for the needs of a team or project

Qualifications

• 3+ years Project Management experience (formal or informal) including agile and scrum practices

• Certified Scrum Master or equivalent experience on a scrum team with a goal to obtain certification while in the role.

• Familiarity with different software delivery lifecycle methodologies including Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall techniques to deploy as needed

• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Coda, Trello, G Suite or other equivalent other work-tracking/Project Management tools

• Exemplary interpersonal skills and self-awareness

• Experience working on software development or cloud infrastructure projects; an ability to learn technical concepts quickly and communicate those concepts to others

• Ability to manage and multi-task across multiple projects

• Experience working in a remote or hybrid organization preferred

• Ability to take initiative and work independently

• Enthusiasm for Wirecutter’s mission and our innovation and growth

About Wirecutter

Wirecutter helps people buy the right things for the way they want to live. The site was founded by journalists in September 2011 and was acquired by The New York Times Company in October 2016. Our recommendations are made through vigorous reporting, interviewing, and testing by teams of veteran journalists, scientists, and researchers. Consider us a best-of list for everyday things; a curated gallery filled with only interesting, useful objects; a thank-you note to the designers and engineers who create the stuff that makes our lives better; a geeky friend with next-level research skills who tests everything they buy so you don’t have to. The point is to make buying great gear quickly easier so you can get on with living your life.

We pride ourselves on following rigorous journalistic standards and ethics, and we maintain editorial independence from our business operations. Our recommendations are always made entirely by our editorial team without input from our revenue team, and our writers and editors are never made aware of any business relationships. Wirecutter is mission driven and reader supported; learn more about us here.

Our Company Principles

Our principles help us create a work environment that breeds trust, respect, learning and is one that we all are excited about showing up to each day.

Seek Understanding: We are lifelong students who want to understand the world around us. We are curious to understand our readers, how we get better at our own disciplines and how we can work better together. This means we are active listeners, information hunters and empathetic.

Explain Why: Because we seek to understand, we value the importance of explaining our ideas and our understanding. This means we are constructively candid, sharing our perspectives and the thought process behind it. And then learning from the conversation that ensues. We are all teachers and students, helping each other grow.

Solve Things: We love to solve things, whether they are our own problems, our readers problems or our colleagues problems. While we often can solve problems on our own, we believe our best results come out when we solve them together.

Get It Done: We are passionate about getting things done. Whether it is our own individual work or teamwork, our instinct is to forge a path forward and learn as we go. This means we continually focus on how to turn work into achievable chunks, communicate those effectively to the team and efficiently execute against them.

Make It Better: We aren’t satisfied with perpetuating the status quo. We’re always looking forward. We live to change the world around us for the better, making a difference in our own lives and our readers’ lives. If we are being ambitious enough, this means that we will both fail and succeed and we take pride in owning both of those outcomes as long as we are learning.

Locations

Even with our office in New York City, Wirecutter remains a highly remote-friendly culture, and proud to employ incredible people across the country. Right now, we are eligible to hire in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IA, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, WA.

Overview of Benefits at Wirecutter and The New York Times Company:

Though Wirecutter has a physical office in New York City, the company promotes and encourages a remote workforce, so that our employees can work in flexible and comfortable ways. We are committed to career development, supported by a formal mentoring program as well as tuition reimbursement. The New York Times Company offers frequent panel discussions and talks by industry leaders (Sheryl Sandberg, Melinda Gates and Ta-Nehisi Coates are a few recent examples), that we encourage our employees to attend.

We believe diversity fuels innovation and creativity, and we have a variety of employee groups and task forces across The New York Times Company and Wirecutter dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We offer a generous parental leave policy, which was recently expanded in response to employee feedback. Birth mothers receive 16 weeks fully paid, adoptive parents and birth fathers receive 10 weeks also fully paid. Similarly, we offer competitive health and dental insurance, as well as 401k matching.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local “Fair Chance” laws.

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