Webdev/Web Production/Positions/Web Program Manager

Job description for Mike Alexis' current role of Web Program Manager.

Mozilla Web Program Manager Job Description

The Mozilla Web Program Manager will provide overall management and support for Mozilla web dev projects, ensuring their success and movement toward meeting a common goal.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Communication: strong communicator, able to build consensus in order to get things done, across functions and teams.

• Ideation: takes product owners’ ideas and turn them into executable product requirements. Leads high-level sessions for requirements gathering and project planning. Works with product owners to define project goals and success metrics

• Resource allocation: staffs projects with the right team members, making sure each phase is adequately covered.

• Prepares, reviews and delivers signed contracts for external contractors

• Schedules and facilitates project kickoff meeting

• Provides analytics and criteria to make sure projects are properly vetted.

• Prioritizing: identifies any timeline and resource constraints across multiple projects and gets consensus from stakeholders on which projects take priority.

• Acts as the communications conduit to all stakeholders, conducting periodic briefings/status updates on all active projects, simplifying complex topics for non-technical audiences..

• Identifies and manages cross-project dependencies: Oversees and identifies integration points and reuse of interim web products and results. negotiating changes in plans.

• Identifies and mitigates risks across multiple projects

• Facilitates release and product-focused project retrospectives.

• Process and documentation: constantly evaluates processes and improves upon them. Keeps Web dev roadmap current.