Technical Project Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Lyst is a technology platform that revolutionises the way people shop for fashion. We connect millions of consumers globally with the world’s leading fashion designers and stores, giving them a simpler, more engaging and more effective shopping experience. Lyst has grown over 300% every year since launch in 2011 and has raised over $60M from top-tier investors including Accel, DFJ, Balderton and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta.

Job Description

Are you obsessed with making complex software development processes run smoothly? Are you passionate about solving problems in marketing and Adtech? Then please read on as this could be for you!

As a Technical Project Manager at Lyst, you'll be tasked with scaling the technical expertise and delivering multi-stakeholder projects for our Marketing technology teams. You’ll be encouraging collaboration across the engineering group and ensuring we are able to deliver incredible projects in everything from paid search to off-site trend detection.

You'll have a lot of autonomy when it comes to how the team projects are managed on a day to day basis and be encouraged to work on efficiency improvements for all their processes. You'll do this whilst working on building and developing their product pipeline.

Some of the key challenges for this role include:

  • Collaboration. You'll be bringing together Marketing, Technology, Product and Commercial teams to take the commercial vision and develop these ideas into meaningful products through effective project management.

  • Product. In addition to managing the project deliveries, you’ll be working to help conceive and craft the Product vision for our Marketing technology teams.

  • Organisation. You'll be tasked with managing a lot of moving parts in terms of people and technology and you'll be passionate about building workflows and systems to make this machine work smoothly.

  • Consolidation. Bringing together a variety of divisions to position Lyst as a leader in the performance marketing space.

  • Day to day. Running of standups, managing deadlines, fixing queries, optimising workflows and managing several Jira boards.

Qualifications

What you'll need:

  • An obsessive attention to detail, with experience delivering IT projects at scale whilst working with many stakeholders.

  • Communication skills. You’ll be bringing together technical and non-technical staff and helping to take their sometimes disparate views and turn them into world-leading products.

  • Technical understanding. You'll be the go-between for several engineering and commercial groups and will be tasked with helping the engineers manage their delivery, so you'll be confident in your knowledge of modern systems and workflows.

  • An ability to deliver amazing projects on tight deadlines in a lean environment.

  • A bit of HTML and CSS experience or more (javascript, python) would certainly help, but is definitely not a necessity.

  • Experience using modern tools for project management, like Jira, Trello, Confluence and also github for distributed teams.

  • Experience managing a large group of engineers.

  • Experience building complex systems.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.