Delivery Manager [U.S]

Overview of 66degrees

66degrees is a leading Google Cloud Premier Partner. We believe that great engineering takes heart. Focusing exclusively on Google Cloud, we guide our clients on their digital transformation journey to deliver the most innovative and disruptive projects in the industry. 66degrees is dedicated to providing our employees with a challenging and exciting work environment without forgetting to have some fun along the way. Let's get you here.

Overview of Role

As a key contributor to the Technical Delivery team, you will be responsible for managing the complete project life cycle of complex projects in our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) business unit. You will facilitate the GCP team’s efforts to identify, communicate, and resolve inter-dependencies, risks, and issues. An ideal candidate will thrive in our fast-paced collaborative culture, and believe in delivering innovative solutions to the clients we support. 

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple concurrent Google Cloud projects from initial communication to project completion
• Lead across multiple work streams (discovery, design, deployment, optimization) and teams to maintain customer momentum.
• Serve as the key intermediary between our customers and engineering leads to gather requirements, estimate work, define project milestones, and evaluate risks
• Lead all standups, scrum ceremonies, and project status meetings
• Facilitate the swift resolution of customer concerns and act as an escalation point for project issues
• Develop domain and technical knowledge to understand technical implementation at the architecture level to facilitate conversations
• Responsible for project scope, finances, schedule and expectations of all parties
• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, maintain effective communication with leadership to keep them aware of critical issues and action plans
• Responsible for status ownership mainly related to financials, timelines, risks, decisions, and customer satisfaction
• Owns project retrospectives and related reporting
• Maintain an organized project using project management tools (e.g., Financial Force, JIRA)
• Continuously advocate for our customers and team
• Anything else that needs to be done that adds value to the business, our clients and your co-workers

Qualifications

• 4+ years relevant experience working as a Delivery Manager or equivalent experience with cloud technology implementations 
• Prior experience working as a consultant and communicating with executives is required 
• Experience working in a portfolio/delivery management capacity using agile/scrum methodologies 
• Understanding of how to build and burn a backlog 
• Fluent in cloud technology, Google Cloud Platform is preferred 
• Unmatched analytical and communication skills, and demonstrated ability to translate client requirements to system functionality 
• Technical aptitude and ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks 
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying close attention to detail
• Thrive in a fast-paced work environment 
• Solution-focused and ability diffuse high stake situations 
• Scrum/Agile Certification 
• Familiarity with agile software management and collaboration tools (JIRA, Google Workspace, Mavenlink, Asana) 
• Capacity to travel to client sites as needed and requested

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.