Project Manager

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing. Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success. The act of hiring is not simply to up the headcount or to fill a seat quickly. When we hire at Bounteous, it’s to add to our interpersonal dynamics and choose the right person to impact, collaborate, commit, inspire, and grow alongside our tenured teams. Bounteous boasts a long-standing track record of ideating, innovating, and implementing award-winning solutions and driving best-in-class results. Our success starts with hiring the right people, in the right roles, at the right time to strategize, analyze, design, engineer, and market for some of the world’s biggest brands. Currently, Bounteous is searching for a Project Manager to add to our fast-growing team. Successful candidates have a demonstrated history and the wherewithal to truly partner with clients, leading all phases of digital-related projects including vision and scope definition, creative and user experience design, requirements specification and prioritization, iterative development, manual and automated testing, handoff, and delivery.  Candidates should be comfortable managing projects of various sizes and complexities independently from inception through completion. You’ll be responsible for prioritizing, guiding, and directing practice area teams throughout the life cycle of various small to large sized projects. Information Security Responsibilities

Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols

Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets

Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)

Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Role and Responsibilities:

Independently lead and motivate diverse teams on various types of projects in a fast-paced environment

Manage project scope, timeline, budget, issues, risks, dependencies, and deliverable outcomes

Lead on-time, on-budget delivery of digital projects, following internal processes, resulting in a high degree of client and internal team member satisfaction

Function as a Scrum Master to lead effective Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, grooming, and planning

Proactively monitor, report, and manage project scope changes, budget burn, and timeline risk

Ability to understand a problem and work toward a solution by building consensus within the project team

Serve as an advocate for the project team, ensuring that they are empowered and have the information needed to successfully create and deliver an excellent end product

Ability to communicate (written and verbal) effectively and facilitate communication amongst the project teams, client stakeholders, and senior management

Facilitate efficient meetings including producing detailed agenda, facilitating discussions, and ensuring action items are identified and followed up on

Ability to adjust how information is communicated to various audiences, who each process information in their own way, have different working styles, and unique personalities 

Foster a collaborative environment within the project team 

Ability to resolve conflicts in a mature, productive, and positive manner

Act as a key client contact and ensure their expectations are met and results are delivered

Leverage current project management systems to make data driven decisions and provide reporting as needed

Work with the clients and product owners to ensure the realization of business goals in working solutions

Develop domain expertise in client's business space to drive results

Ability to easily work with everyone from designers to developers to content strategists, and communicate across all levels in the company

Partner with Client Service Executives and Business Development to scope, size, and solution new opportunities 

Support process and efficiency improvements across the Program Delivery competency

Build strong relationships with client and internal team members to deliver success

Contribute to the internal development of Agile and project management processes, deliverables, and standards

Continue expansion and development of new skills, techniques, and tools through continuous learning

Preferred Qualifications:

BS/BA in relevant program, or equivalent work experience

3+ years of project management experience of progressively increased responsibility with at least 1 year of Agile experience

3+ years of experience working as a consultant or in an agency as a project manager

Exposure to a wide variety of management techniques including Scrum, Agile, and/or Waterfall

Worked with multiple teams simultaneously, consisting of 4 to 8 people

Managed distributed or remote team members

Experience delivering digital-related projects ($500K+, 6+ months)

In-depth understanding of digital development process and technologies 

Proven organizational skills and a focused attention to detail

Experience in both Confluence / JIRA or equivalent tool for software development

Experience with CMS platforms (Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal), eCommerce platforms (Magento, Shopify) and Google Analytics a plus

CSM and PMP certifications are a plus

Some Travel may be required

Experience working in regulated environments such as financial services, pharmaceutical, healthcare and experience with policies such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, and/or CAN-SPAM a plus.