About this Role
As a Technical Project Manager you will play a crucial role in overseeing the successful execution of our software development projects. You will be responsible for managing project timelines, resources, and deliverables, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. You will also be responsible for building and maintaining strong client relationships, acting as a key point of contact to ensure clear communication and mutual understanding of project objectives.
Additionally, you will focus on optimizing processes and workflows to enhance efficiency, productivity, and overall project success.
What will this role do?
- Champion delivery excellence, while overseeing the implementation of project scope/requirements through the project lifecycle.
- Facilitate project ceremonies and coach others with an Agile hybrid approach to help estimate and prioritize the work that delivers optimum value. Sessions may include project kick off, discovery, roadmaps, estimation planning, stand-ups, and sprint review.
- Manage and partner with client stakeholders to build strong relationships and be seen as a trusted advisor.
- Maintain a transparent approach to risk management that is both qualitative and quantitative. Identify and de-risk issues early while providing visibility on project impact and mitigation strategies with clear actions.
- Manage project estimates and scope to ensure alignment with budgetary objectives.
- Provide internal and external visibility through regular reporting and communicate progress and risk at both sprint and overall project levels.
- Partner with cross functional teams through new engagements to build project proposals, estimates and roadmaps while creating experience solutions that are holistic and executable.
- Seek out and identify opportunities to share strong points of view as a subject matter authority and improve ways of working surrounding delivery management.
What do you need for this role?
- 5+ years of program management experience delivering digital products.
- Post-Secondary degree in Technical Project Management or Computer Science or related field.
- Must have experience leading projects spanning multiple teams in a professional services environment with knowledge of product lifecycle from pre-project discovery to implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to build and nurture client relationships and hold stakeholders accountable for deliverables and outcomes.
- Risk management with proven ability to establish processes and the decision-making ability to continuously mitigate risk.
- High level of proficiency of digital platforms as well as technology knowledge and frameworks to understand and clarify requirements.
- Experience with Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience using collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MIRO, and any other project management tools.
- Passion with a drive to overcome challenges. You have a bias for action and facilitate alignment while striving for team consensus.
What would be nice for this role?
- PMP or PRINCE2 certification or relevant experience.
- SCRUM Master certification or relevant experience.
- Agency or consultancy experience.
Why join?
At Thrillworks, we are partners in digital acceleration. In essence, we work together to accelerate the journey toward a competitive advantage for our clients and ourselves by solving the right problems.
Regardless of the department you belong to at Thrillworks, you will have a hand in the vision and realization of innovative ideas and high-quality outputs.
Clarity and autonomy. We want all of our employees to feel involved. That means ensuring everyone knows what we are working on and why; creating space for idea sharing and creativity, and allowing people to make decisions without the constant need for approval. We are in hyper-growth mode and we hope you are excited as we are about making an impact through technology with purpose.
Challenges and growth.At Thrillworks, we know our people are our biggest asset, and we do everything we can to make them feel recognized, heard, and appreciated. Under the guidance of a supportive and patient manager, you will have the chance to build out your insights, gain exposure internally and externally, and grow your expertise.
With everything we do, these are ourguiding values:
- TeamworkWe are heading in the same direction, acting and working as ONE.
- Curiosity.We are open-minded and hungry to improve.
- Courage.We arent afraid to take chances or to admit (and learn from) mistakes.
- Passion.We care about challenges, the outcomes, and our contributions to meeting them.
What we dois the product ofwho we areandhow we think.
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Thrillworks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind, as we believe in Diversity & Inclusion as a way to build stronger and successful teams. Accommodation is offered to all candidates upon request.
Completion of a satisfactory criminal record check required for employment.
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