Senior Techncial Project Manager

Are you an organised and proactive project manager excited about shaping the future of AI-driven creative tools? Join us in making AI creativity accessible to everyone, globally. We’re looking for a dedicated Technical Project Manager to ensure smooth project delivery from start to finish, while coordinating timelines and optimising workflows for maximum efficiency.

The Role

As a Technical Project Manager at Leonardo.Ai, you’ll drive the day-to-day management of digital projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver on time, within scope, and at high quality. You’ll ensure clear communication, set expectations, and adapt to a fast-moving environment to keep projects on track.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning and Timeline Management: Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and timelines, ensuring alignment with company goals and timely delivery.

• Cross-Functional Team Coordination: Act as the liaison between engineering, product, design, and marketing teams, facilitating collaboration to maintain momentum and keep all teams informed on project status and next steps.

• Scope and Requirements Management: Translate high-level requirements into detailed tasks and deliverables. Conduct regular reviews to ensure that the project scope remains clear and achievable.

• Quality Assurance and Testing Coordination: Oversee testing efforts and quality control processes, organise test sessions, and verify deliverables to ensure alignment with requirements and UI/UX standards.

• Release and Rollout Planning: Develop, manage, and communicate release plans, coordinating with key stakeholders to ensure smooth deployment and readiness across departments.

• Stakeholder Communication and Reporting: Provide regular status updates and reports to stakeholders, tracking project progress and adjusting timelines or resources as needed.

• Standup Facilitation and Meeting Management: Lead daily standups, project check-ins, and other meetings, ensuring that each session is efficient and actionable, with clear priorities and next steps for the team.

• Task Management and Prioritization: Work with team leads to break down work into actionable tasks, guiding prioritisation based on business objectives and timelines.

• Documentation and Transparency: Maintain up-to-date project documentation, including timelines, next steps, and risks, ensuring company-wide transparency and alignment on project priorities and progress.

• UX/UI and Final Review: Collaborate with the design team to review and approve UX/UI deliverables, ensuring compliance with requirements and preparing presentations for final sign-offs.

• Drive Company Culture: Foster a positive, collaborative, and results-driven team culture. Lead squad delivery with a focus on alignment with our values.
  

Skills and Experience

• A genuine interest in Generative AI: Familiarity with image generation AI technologies and tools such as Automatic1111, ComfyUI or similar open-source platforms.

• Technical Project Management Experience: Proven experience in digital or technical project management, with a track record of managing multiple projects from initiation to launch.

• Leadership and Team Development: Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to guide and motivate a delivery squad, fostering growth, accountability, and high performance within the squad.

• Technical Proficiency: Understanding of software development processes and the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams.

• Excellent Communication and Organisational Skills: Strong interpersonal skills for maintaining alignment across multiple teams and keeping projects on track with clear expectations.

• Attention to Detail in UX/UI: Knowledge of UX/UI best practices, with an ability to oversee quality in design-related deliverables.

• Adaptability and Problem-Solving Skills: Comfortable adapting to shifting priorities, with a focus on proactively identifying and addressing project risks and roadblocks.

If you’re a results-oriented project manager who enjoys streamlining digital workflows and coordinating complex projects in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Why Leonardo.Ai?

• Shape the Future of AI: Join us in revolutionising content creation and build a platform at the forefront of generative AI, in an award winning culture.

• Hybrid and Remote Options: Flexibility is key. Choose a work arrangement that suits your lifestyle and allows you to do your best work. Our hybrid team members meet in the Sydney office 1-2 times per week, with free lunch on Fridays.

• Benefits: We offer a generous package including paid parental leave, a generous home office and wellness budget, and remote working from abroad.

• Diversity and Inclusion: We intentionally seek people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join our team. We wholeheartedly believe in creating an inclusive environment where every voice we hear contributes to our success.

Typical Interview Process

While we love technology, rest assured that our interview process is all human. A Talent team member will review your application, and we'll contact you either way to let you know the outcome. Here's what you can expect.

Round 1 - Meet Your Recruiter:

• Our Talent team will reach out and arrange a 30-minute video call where you'll cover your experience, skills, and career motivations. You'll also get essential context about the role, the team, and how you can contribute towards our goals.

Round 2 - Craft Interview:

• You'll meet some team members to discuss the technical task in more depth, work through some technical questions related to your expertise and cover past projects, experience and career aspirations.

Round 3 - Technical Task:

• If you're applying for a technical role, you may be given a short take-home task to assess your skills and approach to problem-solving. This could be a real-life business scenario to unpack, a presentation, a test or a collaboration exercise. (Please note, depending on the role, the order of rounds 2 & 3 are interchangeable)

Round 4 - Values interview:

• You'll be able to meet with the Department Head for a short, informal conversation to understand your potential impact, the growth area we can support, and how aligned you are with our values and culture.

Important Information

If there are any adjustments we can make that would make you more comfortable at any point in the interview process, please don't hesitate to let us know.