Senior Project Manager

Role

As a member of our team, you will dive headfirst into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You will join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive all aspects of the Project Management role including collaboration and coordination across multiple IT and business segments, working with Presales for RFP responses and building offers and constantly communicating with upper management;
• Motivates delivery team members, drives precision and quality into deliveries;
• Orchestrates launches that comprise project deliverables as well as production issue fixes, which may occur outside regular business hours;
• Leads delivery teams during post-launch phases for expedited issue resolution;
• Actively maps, studies and addresses risks and issues by elaborating a mitigation/response plan while proactively tracking its execution;
• Create and deliver professional presentations on project kick-offs, phase gates, status reports, etc.;
• Tracks budget and resource utilization across while managing third party relationships (procurement) in the successful achievement of project/program delivery;
• Technically biased, engages with engineering in technical discussions with Software Engineers, Product Owners and System Engineers facilitating/driving issue resolution and removing cross-functional impediments to keep the team focused on delivery;
• Coaches junior colleagues and helps unblocking difficult situations occurring in other projects;
• Plays the business analyst role when needed, helping with the requirements elicitation and documentation.

Required competence, experience and education

• 6+ years of professional experience in IT filed;
• 4+ years of hands on Project Management in various types of projects;
• Experience in delivering both waterfall or agile projects;
• Experience working on globally distributed teams;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (English);
• Ability to work in flexible hours to accommodate time zone differences;
• PMP certified;
• Ability to engage in highly technical discussions with developers, product owners, DBAs and system engineers;
• Hands on experience with software development.