Senior Software Project Manager

Summary:

As a Senior Software Project Manager, you will generally lead project teams that are focused primarily on one product area. Additionally, this role might support other Project Managers or Product Engineering Managers in larger project efforts or maintenance activities. In this role you will manage and control IT projects in all project-related interfaces: planning, directing, and coordinating project activities with the ownership for successful completion of all project deliverables to the business within established financial, schedule, and quality objectives.  

Additionally, you must proactively foster high team morale, mentor, coach, and train team members to learn and grow. You will also be expected to continually contribute to process improvement and goal activities.

Team:

You will join a high-performing, experienced team responsible for diverse areas such as finance, infrastructure, test center utilization, fulfillment, registration, and scheduling. This is a highly collaborative, stable team that knows the importance of fun, self-care and flexibility while working on a variety of complex and challenging projects with a passion for excellence, innovation, and pride in producing excellent user experiences.

LOCATION: Minnesota, working remote with ability to go into Bloomington office on occasion.

You will do this by contributing to the following breakdown of general responsibilities:

Manage project initiation and planning phases

• Establish, document, and manage project scope
• Define and prioritize project tasks; establish project goals, requirements, and desired results
• Create, manage, and update project schedules and timeline
• Establish project charter, facilitate review with project steering committee, key stakeholders and project team, and gain charter sign-off
• Review requirements and specifications for work
• Participate in identifying and recruiting project personnel
• Identify and assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to project team personnel

Manage project execution, controlling, and closing phases

• Establish schedules and project parameters; develop procedures to accomplish project goals
• Identify and manage project risks
• Identify and manage project issues
• Coordinate the work across multiple projects with other project staff from various functional departments
• Gather and review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify as necessary
• Track the execution process to ensure that project team adheres to reporting requirements
• Facilitate project team meetings to discuss and review the work
• Act as focal point for project problem resolution and escalation
• Establish conditions for project closure and manage closure

Manage project quality delivery

• Ensure the software development quality provided and delivered meets that in the agreed plan
• Ensure that the team follows all formal and informal best practices in software development and other initiatives

Manage project change

• Identify changes from original project scope and conduct impact assessment
• Communicate with stakeholders and drive decision making process
• Obtain change request sign-offs, reset expectations as needed, and update plans and supporting project artifacts as needed

Manage project budget

• Establish, track, report, and update as needed on project budget, actual expenses, and forecasts of remaining expenses
• Work with software development group manager and accounting to assure project costs are allocated and reported properly

Reporting and Communication

• Prepare project reports for internal team members and stakeholders, management, clients or others
• Facilitate interactive sessions
• Deliver presentations as required

Relationship management

• Establish and maintain team member and project stakeholder relationships appropriately
• Establish and maintain client relationships appropriately
• Manage team member, stakeholder, and client expectations in software delivery

 

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience (Master’s degree or related technical training and management training education or experience preferred)
• 8-10 years previous project management experience
• Agile Scrum project management experience required
• Experienced managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Proven track record of successfully leadi