Manager, Special Projects

Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is the world’s largest and fastest growing shopping search engine. Based in West Los Angeles, CA, Shopzilla is a part of the $7.6 billion E.W. Scripps Company.

 

As our Manager, Special Projects, you will:

Plan and successfully implement simultaneous multi-discipline technology projects of all sizes, small to large. There is a particular focus on projects that involve software development and have a strong data center and IT infrastructure component (e.g. servers, databases, SAN, networking, OS technologies).

Responsibilities include:

• Define and refine objectives and determine the best course of action to achieve project goals and deliverables.
• Obtain resource commitments from the discipline managers and assemble implementation teams.
• Validate with the solutions analysts that the business requirements and scope have been analyzed and documented.
• Coordinate technical reviews with other IT groups to develop and document technical architecture and design.
• Present requirements, scope and design artifacts to management for approval.
• Develop detailed project plans with dependencies and key milestones based on coordination with all project stakeholders.
• Develop and document acceptance criteria, anticipated benefits, and metrics to measure project success.
• Work with project teams to identify project risks and develop appropriate risk mitigation plans.
• Ensure project objectives are met by monitoring and measuring progress regularly to identify variances from the plan and take corrective action as necessary.
• Maintain detailed project plans, resource schedules, and timelines with major milestones.
• Schedule and facilitate project team meetings to ensure all project requirements are effectively communicated to team members.
• Perform status reporting to communicate progress to project sponsors, key stakeholders and IT management. This includes capital expenditures forecasting and reporting.
• Maintain an issues list and communicate key issues to project sponsors, key stakeholders and IT management
• Work with discipline managers to develop and document service level agreements with project sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Assist with the on-going support of the systems, equipment and processes by providing project-related knowledge and history to the organization.
• • omote and participate in the development and deployment of project management methodologies, policies, procedures and best practices.


Your qualifications include:

• Minimum of seven years project management
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, simultaneous infrastructure projects
• Broad-based knowledge and five years experience with overall system network architecture and related technologies
• Working knowledge and five years experience with hardware, software and operating systems including – UNIX, Windows 2000/2003, Open VMS, Oracle, Desktop Technologies, WAN/LAN networking, DNS, SAN, LoadBalancers, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, TCP/IP, Cisco Product line, Network and System Security concepts
• Demonstrated strong negotiating skills
• Meeting presentation and facilitation skills
• Microsoft Project skills
• Basic understanding of business finance principles: capitalization, expense, forecasting
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire the smartest people. We’re an environment where great ideas shape our vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the most challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.

 

Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account, generous vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch every single day!

So, if you are the super-star type -- the one all look to as the smartest in your area of expertise -- love challenging yourself, and are searching for a place to work where people care, your ideas matter and you can make a real difference to helping millions of consumers, then we need to talk.

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

To apply for this position, submit your application here.