Job Title: Technical Project Manager (Mobile - iOS & Android)
Location: Owings Mills, MD
FTE
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
We are Looking for a Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead end-to-end delivery of native iOS and Android mobile applications. This role partners closely with Product, Design, Engineering, QA, Security, and Operations to plan, execute, and release high-quality features on predictable schedules. The TPM will drive delivery rituals, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure engineering excellence across the mobile development lifecycle.
Roles & Responsibilities
• 10+ years of project/program management experience delivering software products, with 2+ years focused on native mobile app delivery.
• Own the delivery plan for native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin/Jetpack) applications across multiple workstreams and teams.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans (roadmaps, sprint/release plans, milestones), including scope, timelines, resourcing assumptions, and critical path.
• Drive agile ceremonies (planning, daily stand-ups, refinement, sprint reviews, retros) and ensure team commitments are realistic and transparent.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies with Product, Design, Backend, Data, Security/Privacy, Legal/Compliance, and Customer Support.
• Manage the release process end-to-end: branching strategy alignment, release readiness, app store submission timelines, phased rollouts, and hotfix procedures.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance: RAID logs (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), change control, stakeholder reporting, and executive updates.
• Partner with engineering leads to improve SDLC practices: CI/CD reliability, automated testing strategy, code review SLAs, and quality gates.
• Ensure mobile non-functional requirements are planned and met, including performance, crash-free rate, accessibility, localization, and security.
• Facilitate technical decision-making by documenting trade-offs, aligning stakeholders, and tracking outcomes (ADRs, tech debt register).
• Support incident and on-call processes for mobile production issues: triage, communication, root cause analysis, and post-incident actions.
• Maintain clear documentation: release notes, runbooks, feature readiness checklists, and operational playbooks.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
• Demonstrated experience managing iOS and/or Android releases in production, including app store submission processes and release/rollback strategies.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban) and ability to adapt practices to team maturity and product constraints.
• Working technical fluency with mobile architecture concepts (MVVM/MVI, modularization), API integration, authentication flows, analytics, and push notifications.
• Experience coordinating distributed teams and external vendors/partners, including dependency and expectation management.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable presenting status, risks, and trade-offs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of unblocking teams and driving decisions to closure.
• Exposure to other Hybrid mobile development management , Responsive Web application development
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