Technical Project Manager - Core Library

The Skype Core Library team is responsible for providing the common functionality included in all Skype clients. You will be working as a technical project manager being responsible for organizing the delivery of new functionality and improvements to existing functionality. Day-to-day you will be interacting with developers, testers of the Core Library team and product and project managers from other teams in Skype.

Responsibilities

  • Support product management and project managers from other teams with knowledge from the Core Library team
  • Write new specifications and review/enhance existing specifications
  • Scheduling tasks for projects to implement functionality
  • Tracking project progress
  • Facilitate communication with other teams

Pre-requisite knowledge, skills and experience

  • Demonstrated (5+ years) project management experience working with software engineering teams
  • Strong software engineering background (library/framework engineering background is a plus)
  • Development/programming experience in C++
  • Superior project management skills, attention to detail and business judgment
  • Demonstrated ability to complete multiple tasks/projects concurrently and deliver results according to plan
  • Demonstrated experience in working with broad cross-functional teams
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills (English is a must, Estonian is a big plus, other languages a plus)

Location - Tallinn, Estonia, Europe

Ref: CORELIB-PROJMNGR-EE