Project Manager

Location: National - Remote

Company

CodeScience, Inc. is a professional services firm that enables organizations to deploy enterprise business processes into the cloud. The firm’s core offering is designing and building products for Salesforce ISV partners. The company also provides a range of services to Salesforce customers and on other SaaS platforms.

Position

Project Managers are responsible for making software projects come to fruition while delighting clients so they beg for more. In this job, you'll manage budgets of all sizes, excessive client expectations, surly developers, aloof architects, and an omnipresent clock loudly ticking away the days on your precious project plan. With the patience of a preschool teacher and the brawn of a linebacker, Project Managers focus on the scope while balancing quality, cost, and schedule. Besides spending a significant amount of time communicating, you will also produce project documentation and artifacts, support UX and development specialists, report on project status and metrics,lead the implementation of client products for their customers, and learn about software development best practices on the Salesforce platforms. Because the position straddles the business and technical realms, Project Managers at CodeScience are exposed to more case studies than MBA hopefuls.

Success Predictors

You wake up in the morning thinking about how to make software teams work better with efficiency, quality & integrity.
You understand the slings and arrows, as well as the glories, of professional services consulting. And you still want to apply for this job.
You are able to synthesize a client’s priorities, requirements, budget, and timeline into an effective project plan for delivery.
You put a high value in collaboration with both the client and your project team and believe transparency is crucial for a successful delivery.
You have an uncanny knack for summarizing statuses, risks, dependencies, decisions, and schedules so clients and stakeholders stay informed and invested in your projects.
You are well practiced at delivering tough messages to clients.
You raise issues quickly instead of sweeping them under the carpet. You are not afraid to ask for help.
You know how to lead, communicate with, and motivate software developers.
You believe passionately that done is better than perfect.
You are ready to hit the ground running & make project teams ask where have you been all my life.
You are not intimidated by client executives and are comfortable and clear in communicating, both written and verbal, at all levels of the organization.

Duties & Responsibilities

Deliver software projects by leading and collaborating with clients, Product Owners, Technical Architects, Business Analysts, UX/UI Designers, and Developers.
Prepare business requirements, project plans, resource plans, and project deliverables based on collaboration with clients throughout an agile software development process.
Identify impacts to project timelines, negotiate scope and escalate project issues with clients, and identify change order opportunities if needed.
Document & communicate both internally and externally the project processes, decisions, risks, status, and everything else required to deliver and support a successful project.
Manage and mentor internal and external team members to best leverage their skills.
Track your time and review time entered by team members against the client’s budget.
Ensure high quality deliverables and testing oversight when needed through the QA process.

Experience

Required

College degree in related field
5+ years experience managing software development projects and/or software implementation projects
4+ years experience as a Technical Project Manager
2+ years of professional services consulting experience
Familiarity with Salesforce, at a business user level
Experience and success leading truly Agile development teams.
Experience and success leading truly Waterfall development teams. (ugh, I know)
Comfortable working with and managing remote teams and coordinating with key stakeholders spread across multiple time zones.
Familiar with agile process management tools such as JIRA, Zenhub, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Rally, etc.
Possesses technical aptitude and ability to understand at a high level technical principles such as SSO and API integrations.
Ability to juggle and successfully deliver multiple complex projects simultaneously with meticulous attention to detail.
Experience working with matrixed organizations

Preferred

Familiarity with Salesforce at an administrator level and ISV experience.
Agile ScrumMaster certification or equivalent experience
Salesforce administrator/consultant certification(s) or equivalent experience
Completed and can describe successful software development builds or implementations
PMP Certification or equivalent

CodeScience is an Equal Opportunity Employer