R&D Project Manager

SAS is a leader in data and artificial intelligence software and services. The company is seeking an R&D Project Manager to support SAS9 Foundation products and solutions by managing project planning, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion. The role works with engineering teams and stakeholders to manage scope, schedules, resources, risks, documentation, and secure software development processes.

Responsibilities:

• Support R&D Engineering teams in completing deadline-driven, team-based projects
• Facilitate overall project objectives, goals and project requirements
• Work with teams and stakeholders to define project scope and goals
• Plan, prioritize, implement and adjust delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual project requirements per consultation with project stakeholders
• Maintain project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports
• Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage competing priorities
• Coordinate risk mitigation activity and escalate as appropriate
• Manage project scope and expectations
• Identify and constructively negotiate conflicts or areas of high risk
• Leverage fundamental project management methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery
• Identifies project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivery of final product
• Acts as central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Marketing and Technical Support, to ensure project success
• Works with management to identify resource needs and coordinate technical resources for assigned projects, including both domestic and international resources
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or a related discipline
• • 5 years of project management experience in software development
• • Experience with R&D project management
• • Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications
• • Communication: Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others
• • Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences
• • Influencing: Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes
• • Excellent competence in project management fundamentals
• • Excellent oral and written communication skills
• • Excellent negotiation and organizational abilities
• • Excellent decision-making ability
• • Excellent risk management skills
• • Strong strategic thinking skills
• • Strong leadership skills
• • Awareness of Agile methodologies yet adaptive to team needs
• To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status