Senior Project Manager - Technical

Red Hat; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Hat in Canberra, Australia is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex cross‑functional projects from initiation to closure, ensuring on‑time delivery and within budget. You’ll coordinate teams across geographies and engage with customer and Red Hat senior management.

You should bring 5+ years of project management experience, a solid understanding of Agile/Waterfall methodologies, and strong communication and leadership skills to drive projects in an open-source environment.

Qualifications

• PM experience with complex projects
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Experience across multicultural and multidisciplinary teams
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Responsibilities

• Control project requirements, scope, and change management issues
• Monitor costs, budgets, staffing, resources, and risk
• Ensure adherence to binding requirements
• Develop project control solutions for planning, scheduling, and tracking
• Manage project forecasts for client and internal teams
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities including subcontractors
• Establish metrics for measuring key project criteria
• Develop project status reports
• Lead status review meetings with team and clients
• Integrate PM methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Systems/Software, Product Development)

Skills

Project management

Complex projects

Open Source

PMI/Agile cert

Multicultural teams

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Company Description:

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary:

The Red Hat Services team is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us in Canberra, Australia. In this role, you’ll actively manage projects to successful completion from initiation through delivery and closure. This requires excellent coordination of cross-functional teams (through meetings and progress measurement activity) which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget. You should be an experienced project management professional with a full understanding of industry standard project management practices with the ability to interact with Red Hat and customer senior management. You will work on problems with diverse scope, evaluate identifiable factors, and demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. You’ll also need excellent communication skills and the ability to support multiple teams across various geographies.

Primary job responsibilities:

• Control project requirements, scope, and change management issues


• Determine, monitor, and review all project economics to include costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, and risk


• Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements


• Facilitate development of recommended project control solutions to be used for planning, scheduling, and tracking projects through integration of various project management tools


• Manage project forecast projections to both client and internally within Red Hat


• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring


• Establish appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria


• Develop project status reports


• Lead status review meetings among project team members and clients


• Integrate and use specific industry PM and technical delivery methodologies (e.g. PM methodologies based on Agile, Waterfall, Systems/Software Development, Product Development).

Required skills:

• 5+ years as a project manager


• Track record of successfully managing complex projects from inception to closure


• Experience with establishing, and contributing to, process improvements


• Experience in dealing with complex projects and multicultural and multidisciplinary teams


• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, leadership skills, analytical ability, and business judgment


• Ability to work effectively across a widely diverse management team, as well as a broad spectrum of internal and external partners


• Ability to work across multiple projects, concurrently


• Detail-oriented and able to work in a very fast-paced environment


• Healthy balance of business and technical background


• Certification from PMI / Agile methodologies preferred


• Experience and knowledge of OpenSource technologies preferred


• An active Australian Government security clearance at NV1 level or higher

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We’re a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.

Inclusion at Red Hat
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