Technical Program Manager
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$89.29 to $99.22 an hour
Start Date:
05.01.2025
Join a leading global organization revolutionizing the way we interact with the built environment. As a Technical Program Manager within their innovative Technical Infrastructure team, you will drive impactful change by spearheading “Proof of Value” projects focused on smart building technology. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of workplace environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading cutting-edge initiatives.
This dynamic role blends strategic planning with hands-on execution. You will lead pilot projects, demonstrating the value of smart building technologies. This includes stakeholder management, setting project targets, guiding vendor teams, and ensuring successful project delivery. You’ll be the go-to problem-solver, navigating challenges and driving continuous improvement.
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and success metrics.
- Lead vendor teams, monitoring progress, resolving escalations, and ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Identify opportunities to enhance project velocity and maximize value delivery.
- Manage procurement processes, negotiating with vendors and securing necessary resources.
- Report project progress to leadership, providing updates and insights.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience managing technical programs involving cross-functional and outsourced teams.
- Proven experience managing building portfolios across multiple locations, adhering to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Expertise in vendor procurement and negotiation, including managed service delivery.
- Background in smart buildings, control systems, IoT systems, IoT cybersecurity, energy management, or a related field.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Industry certification in smart buildings, control systems, IoT, cybersecurity, energy management, or a similar domain.
- Track record of delivering technology and technical infrastructure within corporate real estate across multiple locations.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and achieving objectives within budget and on time.
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $89.29 to $99.22 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.