Project Manager

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage and drive schedules utilizing Agile and SCRUM methodologies as well as longer term Waterfall SDLCs when necessary.
• Create, manage and distribute project schedules, meeting agendas, minutes and action item lists, and project status and exception reports.
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups through product development life cycle and communicate project status across the organization.
• Escalate to proper management level when required.
• Help define and improve the Product Management Process and success metrics.
• Develop a strong knowledge of company systems and infrastructure.
• Develop a strong knowledge of company products and services and how our customers use them.
• Provide project oversight, including effective management and implementation of schedule activities and coordination of project teams.
• Develop and deploy project management timelines, milestones, performance metrics, and an inventory of deliverables.
• Prepare and facilitate project review meetings as well as project scheduling, controls, procedures, and project implementation plans.
• Drive key communications to appropriate groups to keep them updated of key changes and potential impact of the project outcome through published status reports.
• Maintain excellent relationships with internal resources, vendors, customers, and contractors, fostering a team approach to issues and opportunities.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abiliites:

• Technical: Ability to simplify complex problems, processes, or projects into their component parts. Can explore and evaluate them systematically, can identify causal relationships, and construct frameworks for problem solving and/or development. Technical knowledge or understanding of HTML/CSS/Java coding a plus, but not required.
• Leadership: Ability to create a vision and inspire others to realize it. Able to lead a diverse team.
• Resilience: Can maintain personal effectiveness by managing own emotions in the face of pressure, during setbacks, or when dealing with stressful situations. Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterized by commitment, motivation, and energy.
• Influencing and Persuading: Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools, and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information.
• Managing Relationships: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Initiative: Demonstrate a proactive approach.
• Concern for Results: Demonstrates a proactive approach and shows concern to work effectively or to compete against a standard of excellence. This may be an individual’s own past performance, an objective measure, the performance of others, goals, etc.
• Planning and Organizing: Ability to think ahead to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritizes and plans activities, taking into account relevant issues such as deadlines, staffing, and resource requirements. Proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training.
Job Type: Full-time, salary
Benefits: Full medical benefits, vacation/sick leave and paid holidays
Job Location: Mesa, AZ
Required Language: English
To Apply: Email your resume and cover letter to careers@optimumhq.com