Project Manager 1

Project Manager 1

Duration: 12 Months

Work Location: Redwood City, CA

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and eight to ten years of related experience in management of projects with extensive size/complexity and moderate performance risk, including project planning, scheduling, tracking, and budgeting, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Highly effective written and oral communication skills to address a wide variety of audiences.
• Ability to productively assemble, engage, and lead cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated project management ability to employ integration, scope time management, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement components.
• Ability to balance customer expectations with project reality.
• Demonstrated resilience, diplomacy, influence, relationship building, and problem solving skills in a variety of situations.
• Keen grasp of interpersonal and impact awareness.
• Depth of knowledge in technical discipline/domain needed to deliver projects.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid project management methodologies strongly desired.
• Knowledge of project management tools and software development lifecycle (SDLC) strongly desired.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to details.
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining complex and integrated project plans with proper work breakdown structure (WBS) strongly desired.
• Proven experience in people, change, risk, and conflict management is strongly desired.
• Proven ability to build relationships and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve results in a consensus driven environment strongly desired.
• Ability to lead and direct a team of internal and external technical and business staff, and align technical needs with business goals strongly desired.
• Solid leadership, negotiation, persuasion, and facilitation skills strongly desired.
• Ability to navigate stressful situations and make/negotiate decisions on complex problems strongly desired.
• Solid experience with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio), Smartsheet, ServiceNow Project Portfolio Manager (PPM), Zoom, and Slack are strongly desired.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle HCM, PeopleSoft Student and HR Administration desired.
• Experience with managing IT technical infrastructure, application and system integrations
• Knowledge of quality assurance and testing practices desired.
• Knowledge of data integration across different technical platforms desired.
• Understanding of Web application architecture and the technology tiers that support them, system architectures, application integration, and object oriented languages desired.

Certifications and Licenses

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is strongly desired.