Technical Project Manager

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

Postmates enables anyone to have just about anything on-demand. We pioneered the on-demand space and currently serve 80% of US households with a fleet of more than 350,000 Postmates and the largest network of merchants in the US. We’re changing the landscape of commerce by making cities our warehouses, providing the delivery infrastructure, and connecting our customers to any product, anywhere, anytime. Postmates isn’t just an app, it’s a way of life and a part of pop culture. We are the O.G. of on-demand and we’ve given people a new superpower — the ability to Postmate anything from anywhere. We’re building a movement to make Postmates a verb: Postmate it.

WHAT WE DO

Postmates relies heavily on our engineering team to realize this vision. Building a software platform that is reliable, scales, and stays agile under demanding product needs is a serious technical challenge. Postmates is a three-part balancing act connecting customers, merchants, and couriers in real-time. If any piece is out of whack, the whole system suffers. Working with the Postmates engineering team offers an opportunity with explosive growth, cutting-edge technology, a highly visible charter, and a cool user-focused product vision.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

The Postmates Product team works on systems that provide the foundation for all of Postmates’ business. As a Technical Project Manager for Product, you will partner with engineers and product managers to drive key projects in the engineering domain and deliver them on time, on budget, and with high quality. You’ll own project planning, scoping and execution, facilitate communication up, down, and sideways, and drive decision making for the project. You’ll represent your projects to executives and work with them on prioritization and escalations. You’ll be working on some of the most important projects in the company, and have the opportunity to make a huge impact on Postmates’ success. Every day you’ll be making our services and our processes better!

OUR REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Drive to get things done
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering or technical project management
• Ability to drive alignment, prioritization, and planning activities across a wide range of stakeholders
• Strong problem solving, influencing, and negotiation skills
• Experience building roadmaps, release plans, project plans while managing dependencies and with a strong attention to details
• Experience delivering projects in large-scale, distributed production systems and 24x7 production environment
• Ability to manage many competing priorities and constant reprioritization
• Demonstrated ability to manage external/third party dependencies in complex projects
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where teams are empowered to make their own decisions
• Expertise in software project management tools such as JIRA or Aha
• Process oriented but flexible in approach

OUR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• CSM certification
• Experience with Github

YOUR BENEFITS

Postmates has your back. In our impact-first work environment, we value huge company vision. As you strive to build the future with us, we’ll support you with a competitive salary and equity plan, along with access to our 401k plan and robust benefits including: health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental benefits, and food perks.