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Technical Project Manager

AppLovin was named one of the Best Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing 2022 by Fortune, one of the Hottest Adtech Companies of 2021 by Business Insider, and a Certified Great Place to Work in 2021 and 2022. Fortune recognized AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2022, alongside The San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal who have also awarded AppLovin one of the Bay Area’s Best Places to Work for the past four years. Our team members are regularly recognized for their work and leadership, including recent award wins for San Francisco Business Times’ Outstanding LGBTQ+ Leaders 2022, Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Adtech 2022, Glassdoor’s Top CEOs 2019, and the Women in Content Marketing Awards 2021.

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our fast-paced Infrastructure Operations Project Management team. This individual will help us achieve even greater velocity in our projects. In this role, you will be an essential leader within the organization. You will be responsible for assigned projects through the various stages of the project lifecycle and assist in the Ops Teams’ operation. You will help clarify goals and requirements, foster transparency, clear obstacles, highlight risks, and promote highly collaborative teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Directly leads and is empowered to make program decisions
• Consistently delivers for the success of the team
• Translates business strategy into solutions that can be acted upon
• Provides strategic guidance and collaborates with peers and management
• Promotes strong communication among team members and cross-functional partners
• Inspires and empowers individuals and teams within the organization
• Develops and defines metrics to assess accomplishments
• Mentors new project managers, assisting and directing their growth within the organization
• Manages large budgets
• Runs one or more programs with limited direction

Your background Includes:

• 2+ years of professional experience and a Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline, or equivalently deep level of experience using particular project and/or development management methodologies
• Makes self available outside of regular work hours for dealing with significant issues and can act proactively to resolve business problems
• Sound judgment and ability to lead by influence or authority
• Can assist teams with planning, scheduling, coordinating, communicating, and executing various initiatives
• Can own a wide range of project types, be relied upon to support issues with many adjacent teams effectively
• Expert in project management methodologies, tools, and processes
• Able to determine which tools to apply based on project and stakeholder needs
• Can drive key decisions and identify interdependencies
• Extensive knowledge of the technologies and business practices and/or processes managed and/or impacted projects team(s) work
• Regularly provides input on both technical and business roadmaps and/or strategy
• Able to provide clear and concise verbal and written project status updates at the executive level via multiple approaches with no supervisory review
• Can confidently convey risks, issues and blockers and present alongside proposed mitigation or resolution plans
• Able to resolve conflicts and negotiate agreements
• Seeks to defuse tension between team members by objectively breaking down issues into their components and finding compromises that meet everyone's needs
• Be receptive to diverse ideas, suggestions, and opinions
• Earn the respect of others, both inside and outside their direct organization, by constantly delivering on promises and commitments

AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.