Project Manager

Join SADA as a Project Manager!

Your Mission 

As a Project Manager at SADA, you will oversee the deployment of mid to large client deployments, ensuring that projects are delivered according to scope, budget, and schedule. You will also ensure that end-user requirements are met and manage resolutions to issues and risk mitigation plans. This role will require ongoing stakeholder management, as you’ll be responsible for the overall success of projects. 

The ideal candidate will be energetic, creative, enthusiastic, intelligent, analytical, and eager to take on responsibility and learn new skills. This is a prime environment if you enjoy working in a fast-paced organization and participating in a  creative, exciting, fun, and teamwork-oriented environment. We are looking for those who want to grow with SADA for the long term.

Primary Duties Include:

• Responsible for the overall operation of client deployments. This includes change management, deployment, and daily project management activities
• Report into the PMO for status, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
• Take on P&L responsibility for projects - to ensure scope is managed, change orders are tracked, quoted, and approved, and that the client is satisfied and informed at all times
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time
• Lead and motivate project teams, and overseeing engineers and change managers
• Work with sales team members to understand project requirements and clarify conceptual needs for migrations as needed
• Lead the estimation effort with the engineers and change managers
• Manage client expectations around delivery
• Assist in the development of detailed project specifications
• Utilizing project management applications to build out project timelines, make assignments, track projects, and use them to appropriately demonstrate project control with clients
• Bring and help implement best practices and methodologies at SADA
• Build documentation around processes and procedures for clients
• Communicate technical and business requirements with engineers, programmers, designers, and clients

Pathway to Success 

#BeOneStepAhead: Be prepared, work with intentional effort and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.  

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks. 

Expectations

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Training - Ongoing with first-week orientation followed by a 90-day onboarding schedule. Details of the timeline can be shared.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field 

Required Qualifications: 

• 2-3 years of related experience in a technical/engineering environment
• Worked within a PMO or reported up to a PMO
• Certification or formal training in Project Management
• A minimum of 3 years experience in managing IT deployment projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to productively interact with Directors and CIOs at mid-to-large sized organizations
• Experience managing a team of engineers and change managers
• Strong problem solving and analytical/reasoning skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Positive attitude towards change and ability to adapt
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• A love for cloud computing

Useful Qualifications:

• Experience delivering and managing GCP and/or other public cloud projects