Senior Technical Program Manager

Project manager with strong technical background to oversee all aspects of IT projects related to company systems and online franchises. Candidate will also be responsible for planning, implementation and management of technologies facilitating key business functions including: sales portal, lead management and backoffice/accounting systems.

Candidate will need to select and manage technical service providers to deliver new product features, implement data integration across systems, anticipate and respond to performance issues and plan for disaster recovery.

The ideal candidate will posses strong project management experience with background managing technical projects and vendors. The candidate should also have enough hands-on experience to select vendors and manage those vendors at all stages of the technology lifecycle.

Business skills needed:

• Strong communication skills and willingness to present in company and board meetings.
• Ability to translate complicated subject matter to a business audience.
• Capable of translating business requirements to a technical audience.
• Excellent project management skills and willingness to be held accountable for timely delivery of projects within established budgets.
• Willingness to manage technical projects using only third-party vendors and partners (no direct reports).
• Able to capture business requirements and convert those requirements into priorities, tasks and milestones. Capable of understanding dependencies and anticipating roadblocks.

Technical skills needed:

• Solid understanding of web development paradigms and technologies. Strong preference given to candidates with hands-on development experience.
• Ability to evaluate software systems and platforms according to technical capability, scalability, flexibility, etc.
• Solid grasp of quality assurance and testing paradigms.
• Enough hands-on technical skill to audit vendor deliverables including source code, data schemas, web services, and performance metrics.
• Strong grasp of technical architectures and ability to develop a technical roadmap for the company and its systems.

About Daily Bread

In 2011, Daily Bread was named the 13th fastest growing company in Utah by Utah Business Magazine. The Company sells emergency food supplies under three brand names: Daily Bread, Food Insurance and Emergency Reserve.  Daily Bread is headquartered in Utah and enjoys national brand recognition through its media partnerships with talk show hosts Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and others.