Project Manager

Zencore; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Zencore is a fast-growing cloud consulting firm led by former Google Cloud leaders. We seek a Project Manager to lead engagements with enterprise clients, guiding adoption of Google Cloud services and modernization initiatives.

You will work with executives and dispersed teams, own project plans, mitigate risks, and ensure delivery excellence. This role is open to candidates in the UK and is fully remote, offering competitive compensation and a collaborative, co-development culture.

Qualifications

• Experience working with Enterprise Clients.
• Customer-facing experience interfacing with executive stakeholders and delivering IT programs.
• Experience in Cloud professional services or consulting.
• Mentoring others in change and learning methodologies.
• Ability to measure adoption, identify gaps, and implement actions.
• Ability to integrate change management into project plans.
• Structured, analytical problem solving and strong PM skills.
• Comfortable with video meetings with clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the successful delivery of engagements to drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services.
• Engage with executives and cross-functional, globally distributed teams to scope, plan, and deliver offerings.
• Proactively mitigate risks, resolve issues, and communicate at all levels.

Skills

Enterprise clients

Customer facing

Program management

Change management

Risk mitigation

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. We are seeking candidates with significant experience in Google Cloud to join our team. Our engagements aim to eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization. We embed within customer teams to provide strategic guidance, facilitate technology decisions, and execute projects in a collaborative, co-development style.

What you will do

As a Project Manager, you will lead and manage the successful delivery of engagements to drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services, like Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Anthos, and our AI/Machine Learning capabilities.

In this role, you will regularly engage with diverse stakeholder groups, including executives of large enterprises and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team within Google to help gather requirements, scope engagements, plan, and deliver service offerings to accelerate the cloud adoption journey. You will utilize your relationship management, leadership skills, and technical background to lead others, proactively mitigate risks, resolve issues, and advance projects when appropriate effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.

Note: This role is open for candiadates in the UK.

What we need

• Must Have: Experience working with Enterprise Clients
• Customer-facing experience, interfacing with executive stakeholders, driving/managing/delivering IT technical implementations, transformation programs, or other initiatives
• Experience supporting enterprise customers in one of the following: Cloud Professional Services organizations, comparable IT consulting, or program management organizations
• A history of mentoring and or teaching others to use process, organization, change, and/or learning improvement methodologies
• Ability to create and run measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changesIdentify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into overall project plansAdaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments
• Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills; rigorous approach to project management to deliver enterprise-level projects
• Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in value consulting, proposal development, and execution with public cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Why Work Here

• We are professionals you can Trust.
• Our people have the extensive experience to get the job doneWe share unbiased opinions and are comfortable with the hard truths.
• You are the subject matter experts for our customers.We are the Missing Link. You will connect our customers to Google and move quickly when others can’t
• We remove uncertainty and risk by clearly outlining the process of cloud migration for our customers
• We accelerate timelines and do not dwell on a challenge.
• You’ll move faster and expose “unknown unknowns” for our customers
• We show empathy. Our customers believe in us because we can relate to their complexities

How to succeed

• First rule at Zencore - Be Kind
• Own the process - own your customer’s success by proactive practices
• Work hard to reach the destination, but make sure to enjoy the journey
• Champion a consistent collaborative culture
• Be receptive to FeedbackChallenge the Status Quo

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation andbenefits.

Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Zencore is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.