Job Summary:
As a Senior Project Manager at Tech Holding you will be responsible for identifying, scoping, and delivering a large end to end technical projects. The incumbent works with the VP of Program Management and thrives through building consensus and driving teams towards results. You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop schedules, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role.
Essential Duties:
- Work directly with the clients and their key stakeholders in executive teams, product management, and marketing teams to define strategy and requirements
- Work with on-site and remote teams to deliver projects and services in sync with launch timelines
- Communicate regularly with clients on status, risks, and change control
- Responsible for scope control with clients, task execution with the development team and relevant upward communication to stakeholders.
- Primarily operates within existing product and technology offerings, working closely with Technology, Product and Tech Ops teams to manage and deliver client implementation & integration projects.
- Helps define process improvements within and feedback for large, multi-part projects that need creative project management strategies required for timely execution.
- Provide necessary feedback to project stakeholders that could include specification feedback, escalating issues to managers, and managing scope changes and/or clarifications to project resources.
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 6+ years of relevant work experience in technical project management in Tech
- Experience of product launches, coming up with launch playbook and managing overall delivery
- Experience in managing risks and coming up with mitigation strategy
- Experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection
- 3-4 years of Agile/Scrum Experience
- Strong influencing ability and communication skills to interact with client’s senior management
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet overlapping deadlines
- Comfortable with traveling as needed
- Experience with Project Management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, and other cloud based Project tracking tools
Preferred Qualifications
- CSM/A-CSM and/or PMP/PMI-ACP certification a plus
- Experience working on projects with common front-end technologies and utilities such as ReactJS, Node.JS, Paython, Ruby on Rails and etc. is a plus