Technical Project Manager

RWS Group; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Amazing benefits

25 days paid time off

Birthday day off

Paid volunteer time

100% paid parental leave

Job summary

RWS TrainAI Data Services is seeking a Technical Project Manager to coordinate day-to-day project activities across multiple teams. You will manage client data, set up projects, schedule tasks, organize files, and place tasks with raters while liaising with stakeholders and leadership.

The role requires 2–5 years in project coordination or technical program support, strong communication, and experience with software/infra projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of project coordination, project management, operations, or technical program support experience.
• Experience working with technical teams supporting software, infrastructure, systems, or technology projects.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day administrative tasks related to project life cycle.
• Support project team members as necessary to perform and complete daily project tasks.
• Support your team with regards to client requirements, needs and requests such as asset management, reporting, and meetings.
• Coordinate project activities, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across technical and business teams.
• Keep project schedules on track and ensure on-time delivery, produce reports; maintain project plans, timelines, and status reports.
• Track project progress and proactively identify potential risks, blockers, and dependencies.
• Support project managers and program managers in delivering strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to appropriate audiences.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
• Assist with technical requirements gathering, documentation, and process mapping.
• Coordinate testing, deployment, and implementation activities as needed.
• Make recommendations for process improvements to have a positive impact on profitability and/or quality
• Maintain project documentation in tools such as SharePoint, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Assist with building automation within the team and running technical scripts such as Python

Skills

Project coordination

Project management

Communication

Documentation

Microsoft Office

Google Suite

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Confluence

Python

SQL

Job description

Job Purpose

The Technical Project Manager supports the planning, execution, tracking, and delivery of technical projects across multiple teams. This role acts as a central point of coordination between business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and project leadership, ensuring projects remain on schedule, within scope, and aligned with organizational goals. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, comfortable working in a technical environment, and skilled at managing communications, documentation, and project activities across multiple concurrent initiatives. As our technical project manager, you become a member of a project team, supporting day-to-day project activities related to the TrainAI project process. In addition to tasks requiring a technical specialty, regular project coordinator tasks will include client data management, project set up, scheduling, project file organization, and placing tasks with raters. The Technical Project Manager is responsible for coordinating both client-facing project activities and technical deliverables to support the successful execution of client projects. Working closely with the Director, Program Managers, and Project Managers, this role oversees resource allocation, task coordination, and project timelines across a variety of engagements. The Technical Project Manager also actively participates in client and internal meetings, identifies emerging business and operational issues, and provides recommendations to improve project delivery, efficiency, and overall account performance.

About RWS TrainAI Data Services

Training or fine-tuning artificial intelligence (AI) requires data. LOTS of data. However, not just any data will do - our clients need responsible AI data that’s targeted, accurate and reliable to ensure machine learning (ML) success. But preparing AI training data is a monumental task that can take up the vast majority of AI project time, leaving AI teams with precious little time to focus on developing, deploying and evaluating ML models. RWS TrainAI helps our clients address this challenge head-on. With a seamless blend of technological understanding and human intelligence, RWS TrainAI provides complete, end-to-end data collection and content generation, data annotation or labelling, human-in-the-loop data validation and generative AI data services for all types of AI, in any language, at any scale, based on the principles of responsible AI. Today, TrainAI supports four of the world’s top five technology companies, enhancing the performance of their generative AI applications by providing services such as prompt engineering, response refinement and red teaming with locale-specific domain experts across a broad range of topic areas and educational levels. For further information, please visit:

RWS TrainAI Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day administrative tasks related to project life cycle
• Support project team members as necessary to perform and complete daily project tasks
• Support your team with regards to client requirements, needs and requests such as asset management, reporting, and meetings
• Coordinate project activities, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across technical and business teams.
• Keep project schedules on track and ensure on-time delivery, produce reports; maintain project plans, timelines, and status reports.
• Track project progress and proactively identify potential risks, blockers, and dependencies.
• Support project managers and program managers in delivering strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to appropriate audiences.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
• Assist with technical requirements gathering, documentation, and process mapping.
• Coordinate testing, deployment, and implementation activities as needed.
• Make recommendations for process improvements to have a positive impact on profitability and/or quality
• Maintain project documentation in tools such as SharePoint, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Assist with building automation within the team and running technical scripts such as Python

Skills & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent experience. 2-5 years of project coordination, project management, operations, or technical program support experience. Experience working with technical teams supporting software, infrastructure, systems, or technology projects. Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities. Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite as well as Google Suite, including Excel/Sheets, PowerPoint, Word/Docs, and Teams/GChat. Experience using project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms. Demonstrated experience with coding such as Python, Sequel and whisper coding.

Benefits

• Amazing benefits! (Seriously!)
• Generous paid time off package, starting at 25 days per year (10 sick and 15 vacation), plus company holidays, birthday day off, paid volunteer time, and 100% paid parental leave.
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match.
• Company-wide agile work policy with flexible work arrangements.
• Opportunities for training, professional development, and personal growth.
• Smart, engaged co-workers and a global culture of diversity, innovation, and opportunity.
• Base Pay$70,000 - $85,000 / yearActual rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to: position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. Total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other perks, as outlined in any formal offer made.*Candidates must reside in State advertised to be considered#LI-JD1

Life at RWS

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us:
to partner , putting clients fist and winning together ,
to pioneer , innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage,
to progress , aiming high and growing through actions and
to deliver , owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI

and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right - Partner, Pioneer, Progress - and we'll Deliver together as RWS.

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