SR IT PROJECT MANAGER

$135,000 - $160,000/Yr

Cedent Consulting - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Palo Alto, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr IT Project Manager will be responsible for managing global IT projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring that objectives, scope, time, quality, resources, costs, risks, and change management are effectively handled. The role involves developing best practices for project management and the systems development life cycle, while also leading diverse IT projects across various domains including IT G&A, R&D, and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage projects towards achievement of business objectives while adhering to agreed scope, time, quality, and budget.
• Develop project charters, comprehensive plans, budgets, success criteria, metrics, status reporting, communications, and other deliverables to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Anticipate critical activities and risks, identify issues, and demonstrate initiative to appropriately escalate and resolve.
• Plan mitigations for risks with significant impact.
• Effectively communicate progress, status, dependencies, and risk to stakeholders to keep projects on track.
• Demonstrate leadership, build partnerships, and communicate in a motivating and pragmatic manner.
• Establish effective governance, steering committees, and RACI for deliverables and decisions.
• Create project task plans; monitor and update team member tasks and deliverables to ensure quality and timely completion.
• Partner with others to develop and implement best practices for project management and maintain process documentation.
• Coach and mentor others on project management best practices.
• Manage multiple global projects with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Manage vendors conducting work on assigned projects, ensuring timely and quality deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with departmental SDLC and PM methodologies; conduct lessons learned for projects.

Requirements

• Proven experience with 6+ years managing a diversity of IT projects including application implementations and information security.
• Strong working knowledge of IT applications, infrastructure, and information security projects.
• PMP certification or equivalent is desired.
• Ability to develop detailed IT project plans with minimal assistance.
• Strong knowledge of formal project management, SDLC, and agile methodologies.
• Proven experience with requirements elicitation and analysis techniques.
• Experience developing robust plans for managing quality and testing.
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management software, including MS Project and Smartsheet.
• Good business acumen to understand the value of business capabilities enabled by IT.
• Sufficient working knowledge of finance fundamentals to plan and monitor costs.
• Experience managing global virtual teams and vendors effectively.
• Ability to manage multiple programs or projects in a consultative and collaborative style.

Nice-to-haves

• MBA is a plus.

Benefits

• Salary range of $135,000-$160,000 per year
• Full-time position with benefits
• Opportunity to be part of a great culture and team
• Challenging work environment with growth opportunities