Senior Project Manager

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Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that feels you are valued in the workplace. Do you not meet every single requirement but still intrigued? We encourage you to still apply! You can help make our company even better. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability, or any way you represent yourself. We strongly believe diversity makes for more successful teams.

Why Protolabs?

We are the leaders in digital manufacturing.  We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit.  Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds.  We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do.  It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

Join our team as a Senior Project Manager!

The Senior Project Manager oversees multiple projects and/or cross-functional development initiatives involving significant collaboration across departments such as software, manufacturing, marketing, customer service, finance, and sales. In this role, you will have accountability for ensuring the successful delivery of projects, managing technical aspects, costs, and schedules. This also entails effective coordination and communication with various teams to ensure smooth project progress and achievement of objectives.

 You will: 

• Manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Create project charters collaboratively, getting buy-in from key stakeholders, including completion criteria.
• Make sure project requirements are defined as completely as is practical before project works starts.
• Identify the scope of the project and involves all necessary functional areas.
• Manage requirements and scope change as the project progresses, makes sure stakeholders understand the costs of scope and requirements creep as part of the decision process.
• Work with project team to lay out project schedule and milestones. When applicable, need to break down deliverables into incremental add value deliverables.
• Monitor project progress and takes corrective action as needed.
• Ensure project technical deliverables are tested and technical performance is verified.
• As needed, ensure go to market plan is planned and technical inputs are provided to marketing.
• As needed, ensure training is planned, coordinates inputs to training for manufacturing, sales, customer service, finance, etc.
• Inform management of the ongoing status of projects.
• Conduct post-project assessments. Accumulates and disseminates, as appropriate, any lessons learned, including technical, cost/schedule, people related.
• Provide feedback to senior management and communicates project status.
• Work with senior management team to assess development needs, define projects, and set priorities.
• Partner with other PMO resources to define and educate stakeholders on PMO processes, tool, and templates like Project Lifecycle, Intake Process, Prioritization, tradeoffs, governance, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

You have:

• 4-year college degree, Engineering, Computer, or Software preferred; other applicable degrees with demonstrated aptitude and experience will also be considered.
• 5+ years of direct experience managing technical and non-technical projects of three to ten people and 3 to 24 months duration.
• Experience with standard project management and development tools such as One Plan, AzDo, Microsoft Project, Jira, Domo, etc.
• Experience with different software development practices such as Agile, Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall, SAFe and other software development practices.
• Experience with different communication, reporting, and dashboard tools such as Teams, Confluence, Wiki, etc.
• Able to be assertive and proactive without being confrontational or abrasive.
• Able to interact with many different types of individuals including software developers, engineers, executives, manufacturing personnel, and other business professionals.
• Must have demonstrated personal skills and abilities to manage projects.
• Must have experience in a matrix organization where the project team members are not in the direct reporting chain.
• “Leadership” DNA: Able to motivate and inspire the team to accomplish our goals.
• Effective style, compatible with the Proto L