We are hiring a Manager, Project Management to lead our project managers and create a vision for building out this team during a time of exciting rapid growth within the company. In this role, you will: be a strong people manager inspiring the team to do their greatest work yet, develop a best practices Project Management methodology for UserTesting, provide leadership on the strategic direction of the team in conjunction with our UX research counterparts and work cross-functionally with internal teams. The ideal candidate has: exceptional communication skills, a clearProject Management methodology/POV, ability to drive action within ambiguity, customer focused mindset, knows how to juggle strategic initiatives while prioritizing tactical asks, sees the problem before it arises and has a can-do problem-solving mindset. This role reports directly to the VP, Professional Services.
Responsibilities:
- Build out the Project Management methodology within our Professional Services organization so that it consistently performs to the highest standards of excellence
- Develop a project management function that works seamlessly across a matrix organization (product, sales and customer success) delivering world-class service aligned to customer goals and objectives
- Coach and mentor the Project Management team, ensuring they have a clear professional development plan in getting to the next level in their careers
- Work to ensure that Project Management best practices are standardized across projects in order to maintain delivery excellence in every project.
- Creates our resource planning methodology: develops approach, trains team on how to accurate resource planning, report and manage utilization metrics
- Work with project managers to ensure that all projects stay in scope, on schedule and course correct as needed when projects encounter issues.
- Develop a methodology related to releasing Beta functionality to our customers including: develop business requirements documentation, timelines and next steps
- Leads the recruitment and panel initiatives as it relates to scoping, vendor management, resource planning and long term vision.
- Partner with research management counterparts in ensuring squad success
- Ability to be customer facing to address concerns, ensure strong relationships are being established and an escalation point for any project management concerns.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in customer facing, enterprise level project management in SaaS, digital agencies, or technology consulting
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading a Project Management function within a customer facing organization in SaaS, digital agencies, or technology consulting
- Background interacting with UX Research, recruitment/panel management or optimizing customers experiences a plus
- Mastery in tracking, reporting and resource management using tools such as Clarizen, Wrike, Jira, Asana in a complex, fast-paced and resource driven environment
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills; establish cooperative and accountable teams
- Experience managing across geographically dispersed offices and a matrixed org
- Strategic thinker, strong analytical, data-driven mindset & excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to integrate processes to ensure project management team provides valuable and strategic support for the teams they support.
- Strong understanding of working with product teams developing business requirements and managing integrations
- Experience being nimble and proactive in supporting sales teams with selling and scoping project work
- Project management certification (PMP) and /or formal coursework/training in project management strongly preferred.
Additional Information
Besides a great work environment and the opportunity to change the world, we offer competitive salary, benefits, plenty of perks, as well as stock options. We value diversity, and are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.
Learn more about what it is like to work at UserTesting at: https://www.usertesting.com/about-us/job