Jr. Project Manager - Part Time

Insight Global; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global’s client is seeking a Project Manager – Software Delivery & Release Readiness to coordinate software updates across a large customer population, with a focus on data analysis, scheduling, and readiness.

You will leverage advanced Excel, pivot tables, and reporting tools to identify data discrepancies, organize deployment cohorts, manage schedules, and coordinate across Engineering, Operations, Support, and Customer Delivery teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in project management, program coordination, release management, software deployment, or equivalent tech env.
• Advanced Excel skills with large datasets, pivots, filtering, reconciliation, data validation.
• Experience coordinating SaaS releases or customer implementations across multiple customers.
• Strong data analysis for discrepancies, scheduling conflicts, and data quality issues.
• Experience managing deployment schedules, readiness, risks, deadlines, and action items.
• Proven cross-functional coordination without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate software releases and updates across many customer environments.
• Export, analyze, and validate customer, scheduling, and release data using Excel.
• Identify missing or conflicting data and coordinate resolution with teams.
• Determine customer readiness and organize deployment schedules/cohorts.
• Maintain deployment schedules with milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Support, and Customer Delivery teams.
• Build and maintain reporting around release status and readiness.
• Communicate deployment schedules and changes to customers.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Education

PMP

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Salesforce

Snowflake

SQL

Job description

Job Description

A customer of Insight Global is looking to hire a Project Manager – Software Delivery & Release Readiness to come onboard! This person will coordinate software updates and deployments across a large customer population, with a heavy focus on analyzing and validating customer, scheduling, and release data. They will use advanced Excel and reporting/tracking tools to identify data discrepancies, organize customers into deployment cohorts, manage schedules and dependencies, and coordinate across multiple internal teams. This is a hands-on coordination role that requires someone who is highly organized, comfortable challenging inaccurate data, and able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Coordinate software releases and updates across a large number of customer environments.
• Export, analyze, and validate customer, scheduling, and release data using advanced Excel, including pivot tables and filtering.
• Identify missing, inaccurate, or conflicting data and work across teams to resolve discrepancies before deployments.
• Determine customer readiness and organize customers into appropriate deployment schedules/cohorts.
• Maintain deployment schedules while tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, and readiness.
• Coordinate across Engineering, Operations, Support, Customer Delivery, and other teams to keep software releases moving.
• Build and maintain reporting around release status, customer readiness, scheduling, risks, and open actions.
• Support customer-facing communication regarding deployment schedules, upcoming activities, expectations, and changes.

Skills and Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in project management, program coordination, release management, software implementation, deployment, or a closely related technology environment.
• Advanced Excel skills, specifically working with large datasets, exports, pivot tables, filtering, reconciliation, and data validation.
• Experience coordinating software releases, SaaS deployments, upgrades, or customer implementations across multiple customers simultaneously.
• Strong experience with data analysis and validation, including finding discrepancies, missing information, scheduling conflicts, and questionable data rather than assuming source data is accurate.
• Experience managing deployment schedules, customer readiness, dependencies, risks, deadlines, and action items across concurrent workstreams.
• Experience creating and maintaining operational reporting, project tracking, release reporting, or scheduling reports. Strong cross-functional communication and coordination skills, including driving work to completion across teams without direct authority.
• Jira
• Confluence
• Salesforce
• Snowflake
• SQL
• Release-readiness dashboards/metricsPMP, PMI, or Agile certifications

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