Experience: 4+ years
- Ultimate Project Owner : Be the team member that can/will do whatever it takes to effectively remove blockers, move the program forward, and deliver value for customers and the business
- Coordination of execution : Develop & maintain delivery execution plans. Track progress against timelines, risks to delivery. Be 'in-the-know' side by side with product, tech, design, marketing, and well managed conversations across teams to connect the dots and ensure things do not fall through the cracks.
- Steward of documentation : Create structure for defining, executing, and maintaining system documentation that can be used to assist with onboarding, collaboration, updates and launch.
- Dependency mapping, tracking, and resolution : Develop & maintain dependency maps. Coordinate timelines and requirements w/ dependent teams independently. This may be across tech, product, design, marketing lane, & external partners.
- Stakeholder management: Independently connect with relevant stakeholders to set expectations, problem solve issues, remove blockers, etc. Lead delivery prep meetings across our team and stakeholders, develop launch materials, and facilitate go/ no-go decisions.
- Status Tracking & Reporting : Be able to both create & distribute systemized status reporting on delivery progress to Product & Tech leadership, and also provide ad-hoc updates on specific areas of interest as needed.
- Steward of well-managed processes: Track & champion well managed processes for risk, legal and compliance.
- Testing Planning & Support: Be comfortable working hands on with product & tech to execute test scenarios and provide lift for the dev & product teams. Own the testing documentation, ensuring necessary inputs are provided by SMEs, and keeping our team and partners on track to complete testing ahead of launches.
- Self-Starter: Willing & able to create repeatable processes that simplify execution and insert themselves into work streams to autonomously find ways to deliver value to the broader group.
- Team Player : Able to build strong relationships with both tech & product partners to work cross-functionally. Has experience centralizing information from many teams and creating structure and a delivery plan.
- Systems Thinker: Able to connect the dots between how different technology systems work together to add value and propose efficient ways of working.
- Communicator : A strong communicator that can inform stakeholders on status, progress, & impediments.
- Comfortable with technology: Understands the basic building blocks of tech systems and to be able to converse with both PMs & Tech Leads about how different components fit together. Has knowledge and previous experience utilizing project management tools and techniques (Jira).
- Organizer : This associate should be one of the most organized on the team, so much so that they can build processes / tools that help the collective be more organized & provide clarity for team members & stakeholders. They should have experience creating clear and structured trackers and presentations for project updates and delivery milestone
- At least 2 years of experience in Business Process Management, Project Management, Relationship Management or Risk Management
- At least 2 years of experience leading technology delivery projects
- 4+ years of experience in Business Process Management, Project Management, Relationship Management or Risk Management
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