CAI is a company seeking a Project Manager to lead IT projects in a full-time remote capacity. The Project Manager will be responsible for organizing project status, deliverable reviews, and sprint meetings, while collaborating with stakeholders to ensure project success.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project scope, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, backlog, and project success measures are fully understood and delivered by the project team
- Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project
- Build strong account-based relationships across multiple client stakeholders
- Consult on client-facing problems and provide the necessary technical, commercial, and soft skills support to ensure excellent client relationships
- Create and maintain project plans using prescribed tools
- Approve project resource timesheets
- Create, manage, and distribute the necessary project communications artifacts
- Collaborate with offshore resources to assign and ensure completion of project tasks, resources, and deliverables
- Lead and organize project status, deliverable review, and sprint meetings with both internal and external team members and clients
- Regularly communicate with management, customers, team members, and stakeholders, proactively seeking and addressing customer and team feedback
- Manage and motivate the project team
- Resolve technical and operational issues as required
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in project management, business management, or related areas of study
- 7+ years of experience as a Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of products or services
- Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internal-facing products or services
- PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization
- Proficient in various project management frameworks, such as Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid
- Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong understanding of current project tracking, communication, and project management technologies
- Experience with Agile project management tools, such as Jira and Confluence
- Experience with software development methodologies, such as DevOps
- Experience in coaching and mentoring team members
- Ability to lead meetings, with proven knowledge of how to improve attendee participation and collaboration in small and large groups
- Solid technical understanding and ability to define and refine requirements through a project lifecycle
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to manage shifting priorities, demands, and timelines
- Ability to quickly learn, understand, and apply new technologies
- Willingness to mentor junior team members and share knowledge
- Positive, can-do attitude with the ability to succeed in a fast-paced work environment
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business management, or related areas of study