Hands-on Project Management

NOTE: Important bullet points

• Hands-on PM: Direct, hands-on project management experience leading complex software engineering and application development projects.
• Requirements & Stakeholder Mastery: Success in business analysis, requirement elicitation, and managing stakeholder expectations at all levels of an organization. Ability to present complex technical concepts in clear, business-friendly terms.
• Full SDLC Mastery: Expertise guiding custom software development from ideation to production deployment.
• Offshore Management: Coordinating offshore engineering teams in a multi-time-zone setup.
• Schedule Flexibility: Willingness and availability to conduct regular off-hours syncs (late evenings) to ensure tight alignment.
• Advanced Jira Admin Skills: Hands-on experience configuring Jira projects from scratch, customizing workflows, configuring Jira Service Management/Software schemes, and establishing automated reporting.

Onsite 5 days a week, Time 8:30am to 5:30am, plus dealing with offshore but they can be handled at home. Regarding dealing with the offshore team as well- they will be flexible on when coming in due to dealing with offshore

Position Summary
We're on a fast track-developing, strengthening and rolling out products at a rapid pace. Our new Project Manager will play a critical role across the company during this ambitious time of growth, managing projects from careful early planning and scoping, through development, testing and successful, on-time launch. Our highly efficient and collaborative Project Manager will create and manage a process to ensure smooth work flows, from product conceptualization to successful execution. This is a wonderful opportunity for a highly motivated, self-directed and experienced project manager, who can successfully structure project plans from beginning to end, adroitly adjust and problem solve as needed, and communicate and collaborate across business units to drive success.

Job Functions, Essential Duties, And Responsibilities

• Oversee project and resource management from initiation to closure, managing planning, defining the scope, goals, deliverables, and timing.
• Continuously improve the efficiency and clarity of product development and rollout processes, by engaging, communicating and problem-solving with stakeholders across business units, clarifying the scope, timeframe and resources for projects and implementing best practices.
• Organize and facilitate effective and collegial stakeholder meetings, keeping detailed notes, troubleshooting, and communicating action items for follow-up.
• Support project deployments and continuous improvement initiatives working in partnership with units across the company, including operations, tech, marketing, business development, and customer service.
• Analyze business requests to determine how to create successful resolutions. Build strategic business cases with stakeholders.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for execution of projects.
• Communicate consistently and clearly with all project stakeholders, ensuring clarity about the strategy, requirements, timeline, adjustments, and progress.
• Proactively manage risks and competing priorities in a highly fluid and dynamic business environment.

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field preferred, though not required.
• 6+ years of experience successfully leading digital projects and product development, with an understanding of agile methodologies.
• Deep expertise in the software development lifecycle and its management.
• Experience in coding and JavaScript (JS)
• Ability to effectively manage an offshore team and their progress, considering a 12-hour time difference.
• Adroit with project management software ( e.g., Jira, Gantt, flow chart tools )
• Ability to quickly pivot on new courses of action, courage to experiment and quickly adapt to new situations in a dynamic business environment.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to inspire confidence and trust while mobilizing and coordinating project work across the business for maximum success.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and be highly organized and efficient with time management.
• Energetic!

System Knowledge- Familiar with or oversaw:

• SQL
• Jira
• Angular JS Nose
• Ruby on Rails
• Wordpress

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