Project Manager

Company: Cometstaff
Location: Palo Alto, CA 94306

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Experience

  • Build project plans, goals/objectives, partner engagement, schedule, and work for projects being executed.
  • Engage with multi-functional internal and external teams to ensure successful completion of projects.
  • Communicate project & status updates to management.
  • Assess issues and risks to projects. Advance dedicatedly and timely to senior management.
  • Collaborate with in-house technical resources for complex operational projects, including customer on-boarding, communications and coordination with internal and external stakeholders. You will work closely with teams comprised of engineers, product managers, technical operations, compliance and security, customer support, and sales, among others.
  • Leverage technical & project management foundation to build comprehensive plans, identify risks, and ensure a smooth process; actively assist cross-functional teams to define and manage project milestones on the path to completion.
  • Provide necessary transparency to leadership. Maintain metrics which provide visibility to stakeholders regarding project progress and quality.
  • Acts as a liaison between technical operations, customer success, sales, support and development during customer issues to manage expectations.

Qualification:

  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in CSE, EE or related discipline
  • Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Project Management
  • Working on projects involving complex enterprise SaaS or Web Services environments is a plus.
  • Proven understanding and working knowledge of the software development life cycle and modern project management best practices, such as Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.;
  • Experience managing customer-facing projects related to operations and/or technical support;
  • Experience with Oracle ERP financial systems implementation is a plus.