R&D Project Manager

SAS is a leader in data and AI software and services that helps customers transform data into intelligence. The R&D Project Manager will support SAS9 Foundation products and solutions by planning, coordinating, implementing, executing, and completing projects while aligning with divisional strategy, commitments, and goals.

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