Project Manager - Full-time / Part-time

Position Summary
Want to help shape the future of an innovative and fast growing company that’s changing the way millions of people find the job they want faster? We’re LiveCareer, and we’re looking for a Project Manager to lead short & long term projects across our Consume & Employer businesses. If you’re passionate about project management and ready to make an impact right away, we’d love to talk to you.

Based in San Francisco and reporting to Program Manager, you will be responsible for defining the project schedule, drive the day-to-day execution across multiple functional/organizational teams, apply risk & action management as necessary and ultimately help deliver projects to the committed deadlines.

This ideal candidate should clearly demonstrate an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams with distinct goals, a passion for leading and enthusiasm to drive new projects from definition phase through production.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules, with well-defined milestones and dependencies.
• Manage and track schedules, issues, and negotiate priorities against project plans to ensure key internal and external deliverables are met.
• Determine risks, develop mitigation strategies and communicate impacts.
• Provide effective communication regarding status, issues, objectives, dependencies, risks and plan execution to stakeholders.
• Lead and drive internal cross-functional teams to meet project deliverables and milestones.
• Apply judgment in order to resolve issues.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required (or equivalent experience). MBA/Masters in Engineering or Computer Science is a plus.
• 4+ years’ of progressive experience as a Program/Project Manager, Product Developer/Manager, Business Analyst/Architect, Development Lead/Developer, and/or Testing Lead/Tester.
• 2+ years experience as an Agile Project Manager, Product Owner, and/or Scrum Master.
• 2+ years of directly relevant experience in online and ecommerce space.
• 1+ years hands-on experience as a user of JIRA/Atlassian and/or comparable tools (e.g., Rally, VersionOne, or CA Clarity Agile).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools, Visio, Project, and SharePoint required.
• Working knowledge of Agile application lifecycle management and development tools.
• PMP®, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and/or Certified Product Owner (CPO) 

Expectations

• Demonstrated experience leading, managing, and delivering complex, cross-organizational, geographically scattered, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Outstanding written communication; analytical with problem-solving skills.
• Highly skilled in the creation of PowerPoint presentations, presenting text, diagrams, and metrics in visually compelling ways with experience delivering at an executive level.
• Highest attention to detail with ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and distill it in crisp, clear language.
• Strong verbal communication, presentation, collaboration and teamwork skills with demonstrated ability to gain trust, secure buy-in and influence change at all levels.
• Highly effective facilitation skills in both small and large-group settings.
• A highly collaborative, energetic team player with demonstrated ability to be flexible, diplomatic, persistent, and energetic.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, open to change, working in a fast-paced and fluid environment.