Date Posted: 01/21/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 495862
Industry: Social Media
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Job Location: Redmond, WA, USA, 98052
Work Model: Onsite
Shift: 9am - 5pm
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 13
Min Hourly Rate($): 70.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 83.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: C++, Interpersonal Skills, Python, Time Management
Experience Desired: Project Management (3+ yrs); Audio production (3+ yrs); Research & Product Development (3+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
Must-Have Skills:
1. Project Management
a. Sprint-Based Project Management - Experience with bi-weekly sprint planning, tracking, and reporting.
2. Driving execution in a research environment. (For example, companies with R&D in consumer electronics)
a. UXR fishfooding, SLO setup, and Google form deployment.
3. Synthesize and report information to stakeholders
a. Strong documentation skills, including maintaining GSD boards, summarizing sprint progress, and reporting gaps/risks.
b. Regular communication with DRIs and management, including bi-weekly updates and summary reports.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Agile/Scrum/Sprint management
• Event coordination
• Audio production (event, mixing, performance) or technology (Spatial audio, binaural audio, and audio signal processing) experience a. experience with spatial/binaural audio, audio signal processing, and relevant programming languages.
Years of Experience:
• 3+
Minimum qualifications
• Work experience in research project management with a track record of successful project completion.
• Interpersonal and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Proactive with ability to execute on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with team members and individuals throughout the broader organization.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Computer Science, (Audio) Engineering, Acoustics, Physics, or a related field.
Preferred qualifications
• Experience working in a fast-paced research and/or product development environment.
• Experience with programming languages such as Matlab, Python, C++, Max/MSP or similar.
• Experience with spatial audio, binaural audio, and audio signal processing.
• Experience with user experience studies.
Overview:
• Client brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of virtual and augmented reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today.
• In particular, the Client Audio team is focused on two goals; creating virtual sounds that are perceptually indistinguishable from reality, and redefining human hearing. These two initiatives will allow us to connect people by allowing them to feel together despite being physically apart, and allow them to converse in even the most difficult listening environments.
• We are looking for an experienced contract project manager to help us advance research and development on spatial audio capture as part of a team of project managers that support research scientists, software engineers, and PhD student interns. An ideal candidate would have work experience in research project management, and familiarity with some or all of the following areas: Spatial audio, binaural audio, and audio signal processing.
Responsibilities
• Manage and drive projects to advance research and development according to a delivery plan.
• Monitor progress, identify problems, facilitate resolution, and implement changes as necessary to keep projects on track towards completion.
• Regularly report on project progress, dependencies and risks to the team and stakeholders.
• Ensure proper documentation of progress and completion of tasks and projects.
• Manage procurement projects for equipment and vendor services.
• Willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and take on operational tasks in support of the team's goals.
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
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