The Associated Press seeks a Project Manager for its New York headquarters

 

Title: Project Manager

Type: Permanent

Salary: Open – 80,000 plus

Location: New York, NY

Description:

Reporting to the deputy director of product development, the project manager will work as a part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary project management office (PMO) team that provides project management support for development of digital, newsroom, editorial, operations, news and information products & services. Among other responsibilities, the project manager will develop and manage project plans, business requirements, project proposals, scope, time, cost, risk and client expectations. The project manager should understand approaches to managing complex, enterprise projects and have the flexibility to lead product managers, analysts, developers, designers, analysts and other project team members to deliver integrated digital solutions. Additional responsibilities include ensuring that profitability objectives are met and identifying key areas for process improvements.

 

Specifically, the project manager will:

  • Develop and manage cross-departmental project teams
  • Work collaboratively with business owners/stakeholders
  • Write business requirements and project proposals
  • Work with other team members to translate business requirements into scope
  • Develop and manage project plans and delivery dates for projects
  • Perform risk assessment analysis
  • Ensure that the program scope and measurable success criteria have been defined
  • Manage and execute budgets for projects
  • Liaison with technical/development staff to manage deliverables for the program
  • Manage on-going issue tracking and resolution
  • Provide on-going client communications through status calls and other methods as appropriate
  • Ensure consistent project management processes are followed
  • Perform postmortem to wrap up projects and take away lessons learned

 

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Ability to both manage a project team and be a strong individual contributor directly involved in the hands-on work necessary to achieve the deliverables
  • Proven project management skills
  • Good understanding of media content and how it figures into clients' workflow
  • Ability to differentiate between tactical and strategic issues and influence internal and external customers
  • Detail and process oriented
  • Strong decision making skills, self-motivated and goal oriented
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Creative problem solving and negotiation skills
  • Understanding of AP product and market strategy and ability to keep pace with on going changes
  • College degree required
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) designation a plus

 

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

  • Minimum 3 years project management experience in online, operations and/or information technology industries
  • Client or vendor relationship experience a plus
  • Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Microsoft Project/Server, or other project management software, Visio and Access

 

CONTACT:
Paul Winter
Director, Product Services
Associated Press
pwinter@ap.org