Description
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Type: Contract- 6 months (with strong likelihood of extension)
Location: Mountain View, CA 94043
Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a 6 month contract in Mountain View, CA. The Sr. PM will be working under the guidance of a Sr. Program Manager helping build out websites centered around enterprise cloud based services. This position will be approximately 75% business based responsibilities and 25% technical responsibilities. The ideal candidate will be customer service oriented with strong interpersonal skills, and will be highly organized with good time management skills.
Client details: Take this opportunity to consider joining one of the world's most successful organizations! They focus on innovation and smart business practices, and as they continue to grow, they are committed to retaining a small-company feel. Our client offers excellent employee benefits, including comprehensive health care coverage and onsite healthcare services, free employee meals daily, onsite childcare, and much more!
Senior Project Manager Responsibilities:
- Develop integrated baseline project plans applying estimating models, identify resources and skills required, document estimating assumptions, refine plans and manage performance against them
- Recommend best solutions based on understanding of business issues
- Capture and track program metrics and perform analysis
- Clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required
- Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis
- Document and archive project activities, deliverables, tools and findings for future projects
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in an IT-related discipline
- 5-7 years of experience managing projects
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience working with a team of developers, a dedicated designer, and a dedicated Information Architect
- Knowledge of Project Management principles and standards but no specific methodology required
- Experience establishing and keeping team on the project roadmap by facilitating the web development and quality assurance process
- Java web development project experience
- Experience with large, global corporations
- Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics
- Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis
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