Project Manager

Sciata; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Project Manager to craft and deliver technology-enabled solutions. This role involves managing projects from strategy to execution, ensuring alignment between technology design and business requirements. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, experience in IT solutions, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. Remote work is possible with occasional travel to Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a project management role focusing on delivering IT solutions.
• PMP, CSM, CSPO, PBA, or CBAP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive and manage assigned projects tied to the enterprise-wide tech roadmap.
• Monitor and manage vendors and vendor relationships.
• Create project plans and communicate them to stakeholders.

Skills

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Analytical Skills

Effective Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Collaboration Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Lucid Chart

JIRA

Microsoft Suite

Job description

Seeking a professional to work remotely with occasional travel to Austin, TX! This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with a great company that continues to grow!

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in a project management role focusing on delivering IT solutions.
• Understanding of and experience with people management, systems, and procedures.
• Technical project management experience managing the full project lifecycle.

Certificates/Licenses

• PMP, CSM, CSPO, PBA, or CBAP certification preferred.

Position Objective

The individual is responsible for crafting and delivering technology-enabled solutions via projects that are well defined, well structured, and adhere to best practices. They guide the overall course of the project from strategy and vendor selection and directly create details including project plans, detailed requirements, business process design, test cases, etc. This role collaborates with technology architects and leads to ensure that technology design and business requirements remain in sync.

Critical Duties

• Drive and manage assigned projects tied to the enterprise-wide tech roadmap.
• Identify and/or mitigate risk and manage dependencies with competing project initiatives.
• Monitor and/or manage vendors and vendor relationships, including SOW development and adherence, managing invoicing and resources, etc.
• Oversee project-level budget and collaborate with the Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure the project stays on budget.
• Provide project status updates to IT leadership and PMO as required, including program schedule, delivery milestones, estimated completion dates, program risks, resource utilization, etc.
• Create, manage, and deliver projects with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in, including strategy, scope, timeline, and measurable KPIs.
• Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams.
• Create project plans, communicate them to stakeholders, and keep the plans updated.
• Mediate conflicting development priorities among cross-functional teams to keep the team focused on delivery.
• Actively map, study and address project risks and issues by elaborating a mitigation and/or response plan.
• Create Gate Deck presentations to apply best practices and capture ideas effectively to standards with limited coaching.

Essential Duties

• Identify resource and equipment requirements for assigned projects, including efficient capacity planning and managing software and hardware availability.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in the Company Collaboration Framework and project management practices.
• Create appropriate project artifacts, including project requirements and business goals, in the standard toolsets for managed projects.
• Create functional requirements, including product description, defining product features, user requirements, and present them as user stories.
• Create, write, and execute test cases that tie to design requirements and record results with direct traceability to user stories.
• Prepare, present, and distribute project information to all levels in the Company, as well as other internal and external stakeholders.
• Create, define, and explain UML and modeling experience to communicate a standard way of visualizing the design of a system.
• Learn and have knowledge of the business domain areas of projects assigned to ensure the business KPI goals of a project sponsor and stakeholder are met.
• Contribute to good practices for version control of artifacts, including tracking, managing, updates, and/or changes to software code.
• Collaborate with the Technology Team, including Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst, Technology Architects, QA Engineer, etc., to document project artifacts including deployment model, sequence diagrams, etc.
• Assist with managing software defects and enhancement requests.
• Assist and contribute to software deployment plans.
• Manage, support, and synthesize the work of project team members.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Experience with Lucid Chart, JIRA, or similar tools.
• Change management, process documentation, and testing tools.
• Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Epics and Personas.
• Student housing industry preferred.

Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience with IT migrations and integrations.
• Time Management, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams in a fast-changing environment.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.

Ability

• Work independently and proactively.
• Apply structured business analysis and project management techniques.
• Analyze business/financial reports and legal documents.
• Understand and communicate technical documents.
• Manage multiple priorities and projects with attention to detail.
• Prioritize and make decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Facilitate requirements gathering.
• Understand system capabilities and procedures.