Project Manager, Product & R&D

Perion is a global advertising technology company delivering solutions to the biggest brands and publishers around the globe across search, social media and display, video, CTV, and programmatic DOOH.

Home to an award-winning technology solution –– with our unique data-driven AI/ML based technologies, we deliver and optimize hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of events per day. We’re working with dozens of sources to provide a superior experience across screens and platforms, including mobile, video, social and native.

We are seeking a project manager with solid experience orchestrating all aspects of “how work happens” in a large technology company.  The ideal candidate has a perfect blend of organizational skills, technology experience, and communication and interpersonal skills to align product and engineering teams on a continuous basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full stewardship of existing and new project management technologies (Jira, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, Monday), including defining all structure, metadata and taxonomy to represent use cases
• Ensuring continually accurate representation of projects states, from initiation, through estimation, development, delivery tracking, and accounting thereof
• Workload capacity planning
• Lead and co-lead quarterly and annual internal & external milestones, including delivery reviews, KPI checks, R&D financial accounting, compliance and other audit reviews, R&D credit applications
• Continuous collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to deliver the above

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ Years experience in a similar role
• PMP Certification
• Mastery of Atlassian Jira and its ecosystem
• Experience managing projects in large, globally-distributed technology companies using agile scrum Product+Engineering practices
• Organized to a fault
• Efficient, collaborative and proactive communicator using a variety of media (presentations, emails, slack, calls, etc..)
• Working with cross functional teams to identify dependencies

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with the adtech ecosystem
• Experience in large publicly-traded companies
• Product and/or technology background