This is a Full time remote role that is based in PST.   Must work PST hours.   The role is 6 months in duration with a possibility of extension.

As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will drive the delivery of Data & AI projects, such as those related to the Levis.com consumer site experience, loyalty program, product pricing and assortment, retail operation, inventory management, and others.

 

About the Job:

• Collaborate with Data & AI Technical Leads, key business leaders, and product management to solidify requirements for projects that will meet overall business and financial benefits.
• Hands-on end-to-end project management of 2-4 key project initiatives in the portfolio
• Create and maintain project plans with key milestones (via SmartSheet) and drive the team to deliver on agreed-upon dates.
• Communicate regularly with leads, project teams, and your management team.
• Identify issues and problems, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution of release schedules for product initiatives.
• Be accountable for roadmap delivery including adoption and success criteria as defined by your stakeholders.
• Develop integrated baseline project plans to apply estimating models, identify resources and skills required, document estimating assumptions, refine plans and manage performance against them.
• Recommend best solutions based on an understanding of business issues.
• Provide task-based schedule and cost forecasts and assist in assessing risk-based provisions.
• Capture and track program metrics and perform analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on the budget, time, and risk.
• Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction surveys and closure analyses.
• Document and archive project activities, deliverables, tools, and findings for future projects.

 

About You – Skills and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree with a technical discipline or equivalent experience, Masters a plus. PMP certification.
• Background in development/coding before moving into Project Management roles
• Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 8+ years of direct oversight and hands-on agile project management of projects that are highly technical and cross-functional in nature
• 8+ years of direct hands-on experience managing Kanban and Scrum/Agile project using Jira, Confluence, and SmartSheet
• 5+ years' driving projects to completion end-to-end in a cloud environment, e-commerce environment, including working with Data Engineers and Cloud DevOps Engineers
• 4+ years in retail companies; understanding e-commerce, merchandising
• Demonstrated track record of successfully delivering results in fast-paced, cross-functional cloud and data environments
• Expert in effectively communicating with data scientists, data engineers and analysts, product managers, company leadership, and external partners
• Ability to work proactively and autonomously with little supervision
• Analytical problem solver and strong quantitative thinker who learns quickly
• Ability to juggle and prioritize competing demands on your time
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Advanced proficiency with all MS Office applications, MS Project, and/or Visio.

Posted On: Wednesday, December 8, 2021