Senior Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager

at Acquia

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and named a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

We are looking for a Project Manager to lead the continuous delivery of Acquia’s industry-leading Cloud and SaaS products using Agile processes. You will report to the Sr. Director, PMO and manage product requirements with internal stakeholders, and drive projects through the entire project lifecycle. You will also have responsibility and authority for managing milestones, schedules and processes required to track and deliver the products, and communicating and mitigating risks in the context of time-to-market requirements.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a strong project manager to manage a motivated cross-functional team, make data-driven decisions, and be a significant contributor to Acquia’s success. Your passion for creating reliable and repeatable systems, critical thinking, in-depth technical and business acumen, exceptional project management, communication and interpersonal skills will motivate our teams and establish trust across cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Driving execution of high value deliverable:

Organizing projects and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.

Drive the project through the defined product lifecycle

: Work closely with product managers, product owners, software engineering managers, design leads, software engineers, QA, SREs, operations managers, support and other critical stakeholders to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time) as agilely as possible.

Manage schedules and budgets of projects

: Clarify and drive commitments and priorities, establish and maintain clear chains of accountability, and clearly communicate to stakeholders

Address bottlenecks and risks

: Identify risks and bottleneck and raise potential solutions for tradeoff, if needed. Balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and encourage risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit.

Understand release interdependencies and look for areas to improve

: Drive towards solutions for delivering complex, multi-tiered cloud systems

Take responsibility and ownership

: Own release schedules and milestones, keeping up the high momentum of our fast-paced environment

Partner with multiple teams

: Reconcile the priorities of multiple cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of products, and establish trust across all stakeholders

Requirements:

Minimum of 6 years of relevant industry experience delivering software releases

Excellent written and verbal skills; maturity, judgement, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills

Familiarity with Agile processes and the software development lifecycle

Demonstrated ability to coordinate and lead cross-functional teams

Demonstrated analytical skills

Familiarity with or desire to learn about Cloud technologies, distributed systems, and the latest trends in networking, storage, and data centers

Passion to improve processes, increase velocity, and promote empathetic, collaborative relationships a must

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits offerings to our employees and their families in maintaining both a healthy body and a healthy mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Interested residents of Colorado may contact NA-recruiting@acquia.com as it relates to regulation C.R.S. § 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked

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Acquia
Website : https://www.acquia.com