Senior Project Manager - Physical Security

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Position Overview 

Align seeks a Workplace Technology Senior Project Manager with experience in enterprise electronic and physical security space working within Align’s Workplace Technology. This position involves collaborating with various stakeholders to deploy technology standards and design patterns, ensuring that security solutions meet the needs of different functional areas. The role requires advanced knowledge of physical security systems and the ability to manage projects with budgets.

The Senior Project Manager will manage the delivery of Workplace Technology projects, which will include maintaining accurate control of all resources and activities to ensure successful engagements. You should be an experienced team player, possess demonstrated communication, organizational and collaboration skills, have the ability to determine the appropriate security systems solutions, and manage a demanding workload in the execution of multiple concurrent projects across geographic and organizational boundaries. This person must also be technically savvy and sales-minded, as this person is expected to contribute to the pre-sales, solutions development and proposal processes.

• This is a full-time position offering a targeted base salary of $125,000-$145,000 medical, dental, vison, 401K matching, paid training, paid time off, and performance-based bonuses
• This position will be based out of our New York City office; however, this person will be required to work at client locations in the New York metropolitan area. Some travel outside the tri-state area will be necessary within the United States

Key Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or an IT-related field is desired
• Over 5 years of technology project delivery experience managing complex business-critical IT workplace technology projects including solutioning, design and implementation and related experience
• Hands-on experience in commercial access control and IP-Based video and networked IP.
• 5+ years’ experience with Physical Security technology projects, vendors, and solutions
•  Successful project participation and delivery at an enterprise level
•  Detailed knowledge of Physical Security access control and surveillance technologies including various systems by manufacturer products, features, costs, and comparative performance
•  Knowledge of internationally applicable laws, rules, and regulations about the installation of physical security systems to ensure compliance
•  Comprehension and adaptation of Information Security and Risk concepts
•  Experience in Financial Services or other regulated industry with security as a top priority
•  Technical Skills:
•  Knowledge of software and hardware systems including ACS, VMS, and CCTV components such as electronic locks, card readers, request to exit devices, access control panels, reader boards, power supplies and cameras.
•  General networking concepts
•  Experience with project frameworks
•  Experience with architectural design software
• Strong presentation, consultative, solution development, project management, and IT infrastructure design experience and the ability to provide active technical leadership on large-scale enterprise and SMB office workplace technology transformation projects
• Prior professional services or consulting experience managing large technology projects is a plus
• A broad understanding the product capabilities and experience designing smart building technology or building automation systems from Cisco WebEx and video conferencing systems, IoT Sensors, PoE, Wireless Networks, Verkada, Audio / Video Systems (AV), etc

Preferred Qualifications 

• Possess the combination of skills required to be effective at pre-sales support, solutions development and project delivery responsibilities. 
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