Senior Program/Project Manager

Role: Snr. Program/Project Manager – AWS & MAM Systems

Contract: Full Time (contract)

Location: London (Hybrid)

Hours: 37.5 hours

Position Overview:

The Snr. Program/Project Manager will be responsible for managing a program with multiple projects and initiatives related to cloud solutions, primarily AWS, and MAM integrations. The role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to ensure that projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, development, product, and media operations teams, and customer service, and act as the point of contact between clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Execution: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of a large, complex technical program and its associated cloud-based solutions and MAM integrations, ensuring they meet business objectives and client requirements.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate regularly with internal and external stakeholders, providing project updates, managing expectations, and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Communication: Drive effective cross-functional teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitments across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
• Team Leadership: Manage cross-functional teams, including developers, engineers, and third-party vendors, ensuring collaboration and accountability.
• Risk Management: Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs with technical constraints. Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues, and risks at multiple levels.
• Budget & Resource Management: Manage project budgets, timelines, and resource allocations efficiently across the program.
• Technical Expertise: Understand the technical aspects of AWS infrastructure, MAM systems, and their integrations to effectively manage technical teams and communicate with stakeholders.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed project documentation, including project plans, technical specifications, progress reports, and risk assessments.

Key Qualifications:

Experience:

• 7+ years of technical program management or technical leadership experience managing complex IT projects, including cloud-based systems and media asset management integrations.
• Experience and proficiency with cloud, API and web technologies.
• Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to cater the communication appropriately to the level of the audience from peers, engineering teams, to external partners, and GMs, and C-Suite executives.
• Management of large scale logistics (e.g. across countries and multiple OpCo’s).

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, etc.) and experience managing cloud projects.
• Experience with Media Asset Management (MAM) systems and familiarity with leading MAM platforms.
• Experience in integrating MAM systems with cloud environments or other enterprise systems.
• Knowledge of content workflows, media processing, and distribution.

Project Management Skills:

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Expertise in project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.).
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Asana, etc.).

Communication & Leadership:

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.

Certifications (preferred):

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, or equivalent certification.
• MP (Project Management Professional), PRINCE2, or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Agile Project Management certs.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in media, entertainment, or broadcast industries.
• Knowledge of video processing, encoding, and transcoding workflows.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

About Us:

base is on a mission to democratize cloud services for all businesses that work with digital media files. base centralizes vast digital media libraries into one, removing the confusion and complexity of multiple clouds and software tools. Working with base, businesses can manage, collaborate, and deliver global projects cost-effectively.

base provides solutions to store, process, manage, create, and deliver large-scale digital media content online, from anywhere. base experts identify and implement a variety of solutions, including both hybrid and full-cloud workflows. base provides award-winning cloud services to a range of clients across multiple industries, including global online video brands, cutting-edge sports and prestigious film and broadcast studios.

The culture at base is a core aspect of the business. The following values underpin the day-to-day working culture at the company:

• We are bold.
• We are honest.
• We are empathetic.
• We are collaborative.
• We are curious.

How to Apply:

Submit your CV detailing your relevant experience to ritu.saini@base-mc.com.