Technical Project Manager – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete execution of technical marketing launches and roadmaps, from intake and planning to launch, quality assurance, and performance analysis.

• Handle daily project planning tasks through team standups, project management tools, and regular project meetings — actively eliminating and mitigating risks and obstacles.

• Convert campaign and product goals into comprehensive technical implementation plans, aligning stakeholders on requirements, dependencies, and execution strategies.

• Create and sustain detailed project plans and roadmaps that delineate scope, timelines, and dependencies to guarantee high-quality and timely delivery.

• Initiate, schedule, and lead project meetings with engineers, decision scientists, business analysts, and product managers; document notes and follow up on action items.

• Collaborate with teams to develop and drive the roadmap and tactical activities toward key project objectives, ensuring projects are prioritized, added, or removed as necessary.

• Maintain visual executive-level roadmaps reviewed at least monthly.

• Manage campaigns from start to finish, including hands-on configuration within internal tools (targeting, pacing, surface selection, asset uploads, etc.).

• Support the comprehensive delivery of marketing workflow application development projects, partnering with Software Engineering, Product Management, and Data Engineering teams to define requirements, monitor progress, and ensure technical builds meet marketing operational needs.

• Guide campaigns through approval workflows and coordinate launches with Engineering and Marketing Data Science teams.

• Ensure accurate implementation and validation of campaign tracking, telemetry, and measurement systems prior to launch.

• Document campaign configurations, technical specifications, and testing plans.

• Identify and promote tooling enhancements and process improvements to accelerate time to market and minimize operational friction.

• Create and update sprints with backlogs; collaborate with the team to refine the backlog and conduct sprint reviews. Facilitate retrospectives and ensure agendas are submitted for all team meetings.

• Ensure all project tracking documents are created and regularly updated, with weekly work status updates that break down tasks and track dependencies.

• Work closely with Marketing, Creative, Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams to ensure alignment in execution and launch readiness.

• Conduct quality assurance to confirm campaign setup, targeting accuracy, and delivery performance.

• Monitor live campaigns and collaborate with data science teams to implement optimization strategies.

• Manage bug intake and triage during testing and launch, working closely with Engineering to ensure timely resolutions.

• Utilize campaign adoption metrics, survey data, and performance analysis to assess project impact; apply marketing analytics expertise to identify significant trends and opportunities.

• Collaborate with Decision Scientists and Data Engineers to provide standard, centralized marketing performance reporting across brand sentiment and performance marketing initiatives.

• Develop performance summaries and internal updates that highlight key insights, outcomes, and actionable recommendations — translating data into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Drive continuous improvement by linking analytics insights to campaign strategy, targeting, and execution modifications.

• Ensure the team focuses on the correct priorities; assist in resolving and mitigating roadblocks and delivery risks.

• Maintain and transparently communicate expected timelines across stakeholders.

• Contribute to best practices, documentation, and process enhancements across campaign and project operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in technical project management, marketing project management, or marketing operations; a background in marketing analytics is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with marketing measurement concepts — including campaign attribution, A/B testing analysis, brand sentiment evaluation, and conversion analytics — with an ability to fluently read and validate performance data, effectively collaborate with data practitioners, and translate findings into campaign and project decisions; experience with SQL or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker) is a plus.

• Proven capability to work with and interpret marketing performance data — including campaign metrics, brand sentiment indicators, and conversion analytics — to guide project decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while proactively communicating status, progress, and challenges.

• Practical experience with marketing technology platforms, campaign management tools, or project management software (e.g., Jira, Asana, or similar).

• Strong experience collaborating with Engineering, Data Science, Decision Science, and Analytics teams.

• Experience in agile/scrum environments; familiarity with sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical and analytical concepts for non-technical audiences and maintain executive-level visibility.

• Strong organizational skills, including planning, prioritization, and risk management.

• High attention to detail and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

• Quick learner with a strong technical aptitude; capable of operating in dynamic, cross-functional environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Compensation of $80-$90 per hour, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging: At Sia, we are dedicated to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where our employees and partners are appreciated and thrive in a sense of belonging. We are committed to recruiting and developing a diverse network of employees and investing in their growth by providing unique opportunities for professional and cultural immersion.