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The Project Manager (IT) plays a vital role in the Technology Project Management Organization (PMO), ensuring that the team is working effectively to deliver quality solutions that help the organization build resilient, best-in-class digital platforms, products and infrastructure. This position requires the planning and execution of development work while connecting and providing transparency to our business partners. The Technology Project Manager will manage Tech-related workstreams, facilitate and track dependencies between cross-functional teams to ensure the right features are delivered on time, in scope, and on budget and provide a consolidated view (dashboard) of all project deliverables. They partner with the business to gather and prioritize business requirements, advise on Tech-related solutions, translate business and customer requirements into functional and technical requirements, shape project success criteria around Tech-related workstreams and solutions, and ensure that key stakeholder satisfaction and business goals are met. They foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align at every touchpoint throughout the project lifecycle. They are responsible for working with Product Management and internal stakeholders to help define business requirements and scope and execution of deliverables while maintaining high visibility into the development process throughout the organization.
While this role is remote, candidates must be able to work Eastern Time zone hours.
Essential Responsibilities
The Project Manager (IT) will plan and manage multiple assigned projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope, including to:
- Work with business and product owners to scope functional and technical requirements, communicate to relevant stakeholders, and work with teams to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Create executive-level frameworks and documents to take users 98on the journey.99
- Manage intra- and inter-team dependencies, highlight project blockers and risks, and work with cross-functional teams to resolve them.
- Partner with business owners, internal teams, and stakeholders to define project success metrics and roadmap, develop implementation plans and milestones, and measure against metrics.
- Effectively prioritize project deliverables. Direct and be accountable for organizational change management within relevant program domains.
- Establish and implement project communication plans, providing status updates. Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Competencies
- Experience with leading projects start to finish in fastmoving environments, including defining project goals, scope, milestones, and success measures and applying fitforpurpose Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies and tools.
- Experience with technical architecture documentation and applying that knowledge to project planning and delivery decisions. Experience project managing applications and architecture across a wide variety of platforms such as Customer-facing Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering.
- Demonstrated capability to contribute to executive-level strategy and frameworks, using project management tools to track, govern, and communicate IT deliverables and the ability to report out status to stakeholders and the executive team.
- Ability to consistently influence and drive alignment, decisionmaking, and accountability across technical and nontechnical stakeholders, ensuring clear ownership of outcomes.
- Proven strength in anticipating and removing impediments, managing escalations, and making sound tradeoffs that balance business priorities with technical constraints amidst ambiguity.
- Experience overseeing projects, programs, and initiatives to ensure consistency with organizational standards while evolving processes to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Experience managing budgets, resourcing, and external vendors to support endtoend planning, prioritization, and delivery within scope, schedule, and cost.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in collaborating across IT PMO, engineering, operations, applications, security, finance, procurement, marketing, customers, and partners to deliver fitforpurpose solutions.
- Expertise in leading Agile practices and ceremonies, managing multiple priorities under time pressure, and adapting approach in ambiguous and shifting environments.
- Mindset of clear, empathetic communication with a focus on translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences (including executive audiences) while fostering trust, shared understanding, and ownership.
Required Technical Skills
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Wrike, MS Teams and other related project management and collaboration tools
- Competency in PowerPoint or similar presentation software
- Competency in Microsoft Excel or similar software
- Competency in Microsoft Power BI or similar software
- Office 365 or similar suites
You Need
- Bachelor92s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of five (5) years92 work experience, with at least three (3) years of direct project management experience
Preferred Certifications Requirements:
- PMP
- Certification in agile (CSM)
SALARY RANGE: $70,000 - $120,000
This represents the present low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.
What We Offer:
Girl Scouts is powered by people, and we encourage our team members to be their best selves in and out of the office. We place a high priority on flexibility and offer a competitive employee salary and benefits package that includes:
Paid Time Off:
GSUSA offers 20+ days of paid time off, 2 floating holidays, as well as 9 workplace holidays per year. GSUSA staff also enjoy a paid holiday year-end office closure between Christmas and New Year92s.
Other Benefits:
- Medical and Behavioral Health Coverage
- Plan options with individual and family coverage which includes wellness, hospitalization, and fertility assistance.
- Both plans include GSUSA partial subsidy of premium costs
- Dental and vision coverage
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) including Health, Dependent Care, and Limited FSA for those with Health Savings Accounts
- Company-paid life insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401(K) with company match
- Sick leave
- Short- and Long-Term Disability for salary continuation
- Health and Wellness Classes and Activities throughout the year
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: This job is remote
POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK: This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
