Sr. Project Manager Jobs

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of client engagements. Individuals in this role must effectively partner with internal project team members, client stakeholders, and senior management to ensure the strategic goals and objectives of the project(s) are understood, met, and deliver the desired business outcomes. In addition, they direct the daily activities of team members on multiple projects and ensure a commitment to excellence in delivery in all facets of their role.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter with excellent time-management and problem-solving abilities who thrives working in teams in a fast-paced environment. They are passionate about technology and partnering with clients to understand and deliver on their needs.

Responsibilities

• Work with the project team to identify project risks, plan for risk response and mitigation, and proactively monitor project risks and resolutions
• Serve as scrum master to a mature technical team, working closely with the product owner to ensure the backlog is well formed and stories align with the client’s desired scope and timing needs
• Plan and measure team’s delivery capacity, using tools available within Jira to estimate stories, track burndown, and measure velocity.
• Track and communicate project status to project team members, as well as presentation to clients and internal leadership
• Communicate with clients, serving as the primary contact with clients to manage client expectations while also nurturing the relationship
• Manage the approval process with stakeholders
• Generate and monitor data-driven project metrics to set and manage the performance of the project based on cost, resource, schedule, quality, and other measurable dimensions
• Obtain and maintain knowledge of the product being built and related systems so that you have the ability to provide insights, contribute thoughtfully to discussions, act as an intermediary between technical teams, ensure client objectives are being met and planned for, and/or make necessary recommendations
• Coordinate with internal teams to identify and allocate the necessary resources for each project
• Lead all phases of the project lifecycle, including, but not limited to, project plan creation, project kickoffs, and agile ceremonies (if applicable), handling timeline, budget, invoicing, and deliverables
• Partner with business and technology team members to facilitate decision-making, understand project trade-offs and ensure the successful delivery of projects
• Execute projects within the intended scope, timeframe, and budget
• Provide leadership and coordination to team members who perform a wide range of functions related to the design and implementation of IT services
• Track multiple projects and their deliverables, possibly across multiple clients
• Draft estimates for work and client contracts (statement of work, change orders, etc), in collaboration with the management team

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to meet deadlines; manage multiple tasks simultaneously and create and maintain documentation.
• Proficient in software and project management tools, i.e. Jira, Smartsheet, Microsoft Office
• Instinctive qualities of accountability and follow-through
• Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills with the ability to influence others to achieve desired results.
• Experience with Pega strongly preferred
• Consulting/Agency experience strongly preferred
• Ability to manage a variety of technology projects, possibly ranging from websites to mobile apps, and/or enterprise software
• Extensive experience serving as a project manager on custom development projects (customization of a SaaS product does not apply)
• Experience in Healthcare and Life Sciences a plus
• 7-10+ years of relevant work experience in IT Consulting and/or software development
• Ability and desire to maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices
• Experience managing different types of project budgets - fixed bid, time and material, SLAs, etc
• Ability to manage project finances, report on usage and project forecasted spend
• Proven experience in both Traditional and Agile (Scrum) methodologies
• Excellent project management skills, organization, and meticulous attention to detail
• Experience managing and leading the delivery of software development-, design- or strategy-based programs, and developing the related project plans
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to maintain professional poise and comfort with leading discussions with client decision-makers, end-users, and IT professionals
• Ability to work effectively with various teams of different backgrounds and - geographically dispersed teams

What Hoverstate Offers

Pay | competitive compensation package

Flexibility | work from home

Health | generous healthcare benefits

PTO | unlimited vacation, all holidays, sick and bereavement leave

401K | company contributions

Relocation | relocation assistance

Continuing Education | yearly stipend for your choice of ongoing education, conference attendance, training or certification

Growth | join Hoverstate for the opportunity to join a rapidly growing, well-established business that offers accelerated recognition and rewards, where you’ll see your contributions and great ideas directly impact our business

Environment | fun, friendly, collaborative, innovative, fast, yet professional!

Networking | regular, personal interaction with the Hoverstate senior leadership team and senior leadership of our clients.

About Hoverstate

Hoverstate is a digital consultancy with offices in California, Texas, Utah and Italy specializing in Health and Life Sciences. We focus on: delivering customer-centric transformation and innovative digital products, forward-thinking technology strategies, leveraging compliant technologies, developing rock-solid code, testing our products with a robust QA team/automation, then backing it all with marketing support. If there is a problem to be solved in the digital space, Hoverstate can solve it.

Since 2008, Hoverstate has counted world-renowned health insurance and life sciences companies among our roster of clients. Our focused expertise keeps our clients on top of changes in policy, privacy rules and usability for their customers. Our mission is to continually create best-in-class user experiences through our robust design and testing practices, backed by some pretty impressive feats of technology, to bring this slow-to-innovate sector into the 21st century.

Hoverstate + Pega: A Long History. Hoverstate has been a Certified Pega partner since 2013. Every day we leverage Pega’s adaptable architecture to deliver applications to our clients in record time while creating outstanding user experiences with meaningful business results. Thanks to our extensive experience, and proven ability to execute Pega projects the "Pega Way", we were chosen as one of the first Pega Ventures funded partners in 2017. That means we have the full backing and endorsement of Pegasystems.

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