Location: Minnetonka, Minnesota
Summary:
Your project leadership skills are needed by a growing company serving an exciting industry with software-driven products. As a Project Manager you will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific technology focused projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.
Primary Responsibilities:Manages day-to-day operational aspects of project and scope
Manages Sprint, Sprint Planning and other Scrum activities
Ensures team is clear on goals and objectives of project
Creates and executes project work plans and other plans. Revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
Plans, manages and ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
Plans and facilitates project meetings ensuring agendas and objectives are clear and timely recaps are sent.
Manages (not directly) cross-functional project teams on a daily basis to deliver a high quality product on time that meets our customers’ and marketing’s needs
Identifies resources needed, works with resource managers and assigns individual responsibilities
Manages project budget where applicable
Tracks and reports team hours and expenses on a regular basis
Plans, manages and ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors
Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards
Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures
Minimizes our exposure and risk on project
Required Skills:5+ years related experience in software / technology project management
Strong understanding of formal Software Development Lifecycle Processes, principles and objectives including Waterfall, Iterative and Agile
Knowledge of, experience with, and commitment to rigorous, quality-driven engineering process methods, including strong understanding and support of reliability and continuous improvement
Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, embedded system design, and system engineering
Experience in both high level requirements collection and low level design
Experience in managing multiple projects in a matrix organization
Strong, demonstrated initiative, leadership and team building skills
Understands basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections and makes decisions accordingly.
Preferred Skills:PMI or formal Project Management training
Experience managing projects with Scrum
Manages the process of innovative change effectively
Bachelor of Science in management or engineering
Competencies:Strong Drive For Results
Decision Quality balancing time and analysis
Managing & Measuring Work on a daily basis
Ability to challenge all levels of the organization
Influencing without authority
Holding others accountable for deliverables
Timely Decision Making
Organization and Planning
Please submit your resume today for consideration.
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