What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at Delve?
As a Senior Project Manager at Delve, you will lead multi-disciplinary projects from inception through production handoff, spanning strategy, design, and testing. Your work will encompass physical products, strategic projects, and fully digital projects across consumer goods, commercial products, and medical devices. By applying design thinking and product development best practices, you will drive successful project outcomes and establish a strong track record of delivery. You'll guide the integration of work by our engineers, designers, and researchers cultivating collaboration, balancing trade-offs, and helping ensure that we create meaningful solutions to product design challenges. An ideal candidate is comfortable with both the big picture and the details, and excited about the opportunity to help Delve project teams continue to grow and improve their capabilities.
This position is a hybrid role based in our Philadelphia studio.
Responsibilities
- Be the connection point between the project team and client. Work in collaboration with a Technical Lead or other senior team member to run client projects.
- Work with Technical Lead to define product requirements and track adherence to requirements.
- Identify potential change of scope issues as they arise and communicate them to the team, account management, and the client.
- Create proposals and budgets and manage schedules of internal and external support. Document all decisions, and track action items.
- Maintain responsibility for project data accuracy and organization for internal project management database and server.
- Regularly review project budget status with Account Manager and Technical Lead and request resources to complete project work as necessary
- Oversee and support the planning / preparation of presentation materials, in cooperation with Technical Lead and other team members.
- Work with Technical Lead to ensure deliverables are met per client expectations and proposals
- Work with studio account directors and client partners to ensure project health across project financials, work quality and internal and client team's happiness.
- Understand our company values and their impact on the product design process.
Requirements
Preferred Experience
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Delve embraces difference because creativity, curiosity, and diversity drive innovation. We nurture a supportive and inclusive environment. Be yourself and create a future that improves lives. We encourage applicants of color and those with diverse lived experiences to apply.
About Delve
Delve is a multidisciplinary product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to market those guides clients through the complexities of innovation, delivering better, faster, and more sustainable success. For over 55 years, Delve has mobilized the best experts and technologies for its clients, completing over 10,000 client projects, producing over 1,500 patents, and winning over 200 design awards.
Delve serves ambitious start-ups to Fortune 500 clients in the healthcare, consumer, and commercial industries, delivering innovation through advanced expertise in research, strategy, design, and engineering. Delve has placed innovation studios in Boston, Madison, Philadelphia, and San Francisco to attract forward- thinking leaders to solve complex product challenges through human-centered design.