Project Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads an interdepartmental team to complete an assigned project on time, to specifications, and with accuracy and efficiency.
• Outlines the tasks involved in the project and delegates accordingly.
• Conducts cost analysis, estimating expected costs for the project.
• Conducts risk assessments; reports identified risks to management; provides recommendations for mitigation of risk (including termination of the project if appropriate).
• Addresses questions, concerns, and/or complaints throughout the project.
• Acts as a liaison between company and customers
• Communicates and collaborates with sales and marketing teams to provide training and information required to promote and sell new projects, programs, and systems.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, local, industry, contractual, and company regulations, standards, specifications, and best practices.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:

• Must be able to clearly communicate with team. Active participant in discussions. Can successfully lead discussions when expected to do so, has excellent written skills.
• Must be able to clearly demonstrate command and control of meetings (as appropriate) Has total respect and confidence from the team. Comfortable communicating at all levels and is effective at doing so.
• Can construct presentation material, and deliver it, to audiences of any level. Communicates tactfully, in a mature and controlled manner (both verbally and written).
• Full accountability for release planning: management of project timelines, scope and milestones for one or more projects. Manage the complete Software Development Lifecycle.
• Ensures that the Product Team delivers against schedule, scope, resource/cost, and quality targets using the Agile/Scrum SDLC.
• Responsible for product release coordination. Ensures smooth collaboration among extended team members for each product release including Engineering, Product, Testing, Tech. Content Strategy, Knowledge Management, Global Compliance, Service Delivery.
• Responsible for Risk Management. Anticipate and manage risks, publish a product team risk register, proactively communicate risks/issues to management in a timely manner, and offer creative solutions.
• Responsible for publishing and maintaining project plans, schedules, issues lists, status reports, and meeting agendas with action items.
• Responsible for maintaining up-to-date, basic, working knowledge of core products which his/her assigned product team is working on.
• Ensure standardized processes are established across software development lifecycle and release management.
• Perform Scrum Master functions: schedules and leads the release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming and daily scrum activities.
• Ensure the product team has capacity to execute within each sprint.
• Leads product teams in adopting Agile / Scrum methodology via training and coaching. APM will encourage self-organized teams.
• Leads process improvement initiatives within the Technology organization.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in CS.
• 8+ years of related experience required.
• Agile Marketing, PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications highly desirable.