Principal Project Manager

Summary

Join Caylent, a cloud native services company, as a Principal Project Manager to lead large-scale and strategic clients. You will oversee projects, identify growth opportunities, manage risks, and drive client communication. The role also involves mentoring team members, improving operational practices, and contributing to practice initiatives. This position requires 5+ years of experience in consulting or professional services managing large-scale programs for enterprise clients. Caylent offers a competitive compensation package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k, phantom equity, and unlimited paid time off.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in consulting or professional services managing large scale, complex programs for Enterprise clients
• Prior management of technical engagements that consist of 5 or more people, with multiple project workstreams and over $1,000,000 budget
• Extensive experience and knowledge of project management disciplines, methodologies and tools with ability to build out complex, multi year client roadmaps
• Experience leading client agile transformations or designing the best project management approach for Clients
• Expertise in forecasting and budgeting management to drive accuracy in revenue projections to realization with ability to train and coach others
• Ability to interact with clients at both a business and technical level
• Ability to identify and manage risks as well as proven ability in successful Escalation management of Enterprise and Strategic or Complex clients
• Demonstrated expertise in the ability to understand client's business needs, encompassing both short-term objectives and long-term goals to drive additional revenue or account growth
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to executives
• Ability to develop processes, templates and standards around project management best practices
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks, manage engagements and ensure they are executed with excellence
• Demonstrated ability to provide thought leadership in the areas of infrastructure modernization, application development and/or data engineering disciplines
• Ability to act as a mentor to team members as part of onboarding or provide coaching to peers as needed

Responsibilities

• Oversee all assigned projects, including setting goals between clients and delivery teams, planning and execution of projects, conducting regular touch-points and coordinating account-related activities as needed
• Seek and identify additional growth opportunities during the project lifecycle to help retain and grow the Caylent client portfolio
• Continually assess project risks and mitigation strategies to resolve with minimal impact to the project
• Drive best in class Client strategic communication through both executive level reporting as well as weekly status reports and meetings as well as monthly project reviews
• Identify the needs of the Client against the Caylent Delivery methodology to create a strategic implementation plan focused on delivery and growth
• Lead, coach and support the practice and delivery teams in Agile practices
• Work closely with delivery team to ensure timecard adherence as well as forecasting accuracy and budget management against deliverables
• Mentor team members through the onboarding process and assist with coaching
• Develop and improve operational practices and processes as needed
• Assist with interviews as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management certification - PMP, CAPM
• Agile Certifications - CSM, PSM, CSP
• Cloud certification such as AWS Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Competitive phantom equity
• Company issued laptop
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 10 Paid Holidays