WE ARE HIRING A PROJECT MANAGER FOR A FULLY REMOTE POSITION, OPEN TO CANDIDATES GLOBALLY

Elicit and understand clients’ business needs/goals and help them translate those into KPIs that will be used to govern the project(s) you will be managing

Define, manage, and monitor project scope throughout the project lifecycle

Estimate effort, create resource plans and budgets for defined scope

Draft project proposals and support the sales process as needed

Create and maintain project budget and plans with the intent of reporting project performance at working team and leadership levels on a regular cadence

Act as Scrum Master for the development teams and ensure client and internal team engagement

Partner with, and when needed act as, Business Analyst to elicit requirements at the appropriate level of detail to enable project scope definition, creation of work packages – epics, stories, tasks and sub-tasks, for development purposes

Partner with Solution Architects and Tech leads to understand the technical solutions being implemented and take lead in translating technical details into simpler, business-friendly language to ensure client understanding and alignment

Actively monitor and manage project scope with a keen focus on margin on the projects to ensure appropriate decisions are being made to minimize budget risks

Effectively manage dedicated and shared resources to ensure your project needs are met while working closely with other project managers and leadership to ensure resource allocation and capacity thresholds are maintained

Partner with development team and QA analysts to ensure roadblocks are removed and that sprint commitments are met

Partner with clients and technical leads to ensure that releases are planned and executed appropriately, taking all technical, people and process elements into consideration

Lead and motivate team members through information authority to enable project/engagement goals are met

Actively participate in the growth and maturity of our Engagement Management practice area. Work with and help mentor junior team members.

You have 5+ years of Project Management experience, working with the full digital product lifecycle, an understanding of software development, delivering primarily in an Agile environment

You have 3+ years as Scrum Master, having served as Scrum Master for teams of 6+ members

You have 3+ years working with web application development, including marketing websites, eCommerce platforms and services, business applications and/or internal portals.

You have experience with projects involving Sitecore CMS, Cloud Migrations, API Development, Web development using React, are preferred

You have knowledge of UX Design, Digital Design, copywriting, content entry, web analytics and related web development

You have experience in drafting proposals as part of pitches and sales process

You have experience in taking high level goals and translating them into project scope

You have experience with effort estimations, preferably using PERT, and then formulating project budgets and schedules

You have extensive experience with using MS Project to create and manage project schedules

You have experience with drafting SOWs, contracts, service agreements and Change Requests for project work

You have experience with creating and maintaining project plans, status reports, budgets, RAID logs, and other technical and non-technical project documentation

You have expert level proficiency with MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint

You are comfortable with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Slack

You take the initiative to stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies

You are positive person and have an upbeat attitude

You are able to mentor and coach other team members and participate in company wide initiatives as needed