What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Data Canopy?
Data Canopy is seeking a seasoned project manager to help grow our deployment and implementation team. The Project Manager is a pivotal role for Data Canopy. It is the connectivity between sales and engineering, determining the successful outcome of deployments and setting the tone for a long-term partnership. The successful applicant will be process-driven and detail-oriented, capable of interpreting technical data and communicating it professionally and confidently to clients and partners.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead and manage cross-functional, highly visible, customer-facing projects
- Work with cross-organizational and functional stakeholders to develop and evolve long-term strategies while driving tactical activities.
- Develop and manage end-to-end project lifecycle and ensure on-time delivery of projects.
- Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post-deployment phases
- Ensure risks are accounted for and provide risk mitigation strategies.
- Coordinate activities across many cross-functional teams, communicating through proper channels and levels.
- Drive internal process improvements; remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions.
- Provide leadership to further develop the PM role, processes and operations.
- Drive project lifecycle milestones from concept commit through project closure and advocate change management
- Actively drive project status reporting, issues & risk management
- Drive continuous improvement towards delivery excellence (e.g. evaluate results against metrics; recommend or implement changes to improve delivery practices/processes)
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience in project management
- Proficiency with Asana and Salesforce.com
- A degree in related field or PMP certification
- Colocation, Networking, Storage, Virtualization, and Cloud experience preferred
- Experience with external customer-facing projects, not internal operational projects
- Knowledge of both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management. PMP certification is desired.
- Experience with people management, strategic planning, and change management
- Proven experience with risk management; demonstrated ability to communicate appropriately to leadership
- Understanding of and the ability to utilize the process of stakeholder analysis
- Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines
- Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail
- Ability to communicate well with customers and co-workers
- Experience in effectively influencing and leading personnel and the ability to write business reports in a well-organized manner
- Strong team-building skills
- Excellent problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Demonstrated communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation)