Smaato’s Digital Advertising Technology Platform gives publishers the controls to deliver seamless, tailored, and engaging experiences for their audiences and advertisers. Advanced targeting capabilities and competitive intelligence help publishers optimize their monetization strategy to create data-driven experiences and reach their full revenue potential. Founded in 2005, Smaato is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Hamburg, New York, Shanghai, and Singapore. Learn more at www.smaato.com.

We are looking for a Project Manager with a strong agile background who focuses on the delivery of software projects. Based in the Beijing office, you support the collaboration between our in-house teams to ensure Smaato remains at the forefront of the rapidly expanding mobile advertising industry.

This is an opportunity for an individual with a strong process oriented mindset fascinated by working on complex software development projects.

What You’ll Do

• Drive projects to success by following an agile, lean process and continuous improvement efforts
• Keep a close contact with the development, product management, and other internal stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivering the expected business outcomes and contribute to strategic decisions
• Maintain relevant metrics and reportings in a transparent fashion to assure the project status is visible to team members and stakeholders at any time
• Ensure cross-team coordination
• Provide overall leadership and management of programs and projects for multiple development teams
• Guide, coach, and motivate the Scrum teams; drive continuous improvement of the agile practice
• Organize and lead Scrum ceremonies including the moderation of retrospectives
• Monitor burn-down, sprint capacity, and delivery metrics
• Produce various metrics (cumulative flow diagrams, cycles, throughput charts etc.) at periodic intervals to Management
• Contribute ideas for various methodical approaches, and make decisions with the team as to how to best optimize the development framework

• 4+ years of experience in the software industry as a technical project manager or product manager
• Track record in understanding  technical and business needs and discuss solutions with both business and development teams
• Strong agile mindset and expert knowledge in agile software development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
• Broad knowledge on Product Life Cycle in Agile space 
• Solid understanding of RTB, analytics and cost effective advertising methods/products is a plus
• Proven experience in using JIRA and Confluence  
• Hands on knowledge in MS-Excel and MS-Power Point for reporting
• Full business proficiency in English required