Essential Skills and Characteristics

  • Manage a distributed team
  • Manage client relationships and communication
  • Manage schedules, resources, risks and budgets
  • Gather requirements, define project’s scope
  • Run quality assurance and testing on projects
  • Communicate clearly and efficiently
  • Juggle multiple competing priorities
  • Have superior customer skills
  • Understand Agile principles and their application
  • Have experience as a project manager or technical lead
  • Love tech and working with technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Organizes and track client requirements and progress toward requirements.
  • Communicates daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly project plans and requirements clearly to entire team.
  • Ensures that all team members are properly tracking time and fully documenting progress and ensures proper and up-to-date project documentation.
  • Encourages and participates in creative problem solving.
  • Track, document and manage who has access to what client resources.
  • Shuffles priorities to quickly handle client emergencies without neglecting other clients
  • Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
  • Meets financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
  • Implements and manages project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs. 

Bonus Points

  • Familiarity with Drupal
  • ScrumMaster certification 
  • PMI certification
  • Experience leading an agile team
  • An interest in data visualization or the semantic web
  • Product development experience

To apply: