Kinect
Project Manager – Studio Lot Renovation (BUILD Project)
📍 Los Angeles, CA | Onsite 4 days/week (Mon–Thurs)
We’re looking for a Project Manager to oversee the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure of a BUILD project (construction, renovation, and technology implementation) for a renovated building on the Studio Lot.
In this role, you’ll play a critical part in managing the integration of technology for the building and report to the Senior Manager of Studio Technology Operations and Insights: Program Management .
Responsibilities
- Lead the Studio Technology workstream for corporate real estate construction and renovation projects.
- Manage technology refreshes for spaces across the studio lots.
- Partner with engineering teams to manage the end-to-end process: design coordination, procurement, scheduling integration/installation tasks, move-in, and approvals.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Studio Operations, Real Estate, Architects, General Contractors, and Studio Technology.
- Intake requests, provide updates, assess priorities, and track schedules.
- Lead large-scale, complex projects spanning internal teams, external departments, and vendors.
- Apply Studio Technology project management practices and tools (JIRA) for project plans, milestone tracking, budgets, procurement, and issue resolution.
- Prioritize and escalate critical operational tasks; adjust project work plans as needed.
- Maintain KPI dashboards via MS Power BI and report on program metrics.
- Identify inefficiencies and risks, and implement solutions to improve operations.
Basic Qualifications
- 5–10 years of technical project management experience using both waterfall and agile methodologies.
- 5+ years of experience managing construction/build projects with general contractors, architects, safety, and operations teams.
- 5+ years of experience managing and developing teams to meet productivity, quality, and goal expectations.
- Strong background in managing technical operations teams (e.g., audio visual engineers, sound/projection engineers, union teams).
- Excellent meeting facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet .
- Familiarity with equipment procurement processes and tools.
- Ability to develop and present business cases via PowerPoint or Keynote.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to create workflow drawings and process maps in Lucidchart .