Project Manager

Summary

Join Versapay as a Program Manager and facilitate organizational readiness for large-scale strategic and operational initiatives. You will support and manage cross-functional programs, drive progress, ensure goals are met, build and improve processes, and lead with data. This role requires experience managing cross-functional technical programs and launching new products, along with a strategic mindset, customer-value thinking, and strong communication skills. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience. Versapay offers a remote work environment and a commitment to inclusivity.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Experience: 3-5 years, including proven track record of managing cross-functional and technical programs, as well as launching new products. This includes partnering with product, engineering, and other functions to define product roadmap and key milestones, managing beta programs, helping establish and track performance and product KPIs. Comfortable and proven experience working with clients and/ or third-parties outside of internal stakeholders. Related industry experience in Payments, and/or SaaS is a strong asset. Experience in large-scale migration critical
• Strategic mindset: Outcomes-focused mindset to determine effectiveness and ROI of programs, looking beyond the day-to-day to help reach big-picture goals
• Customer-value thinking: Relentlessly considers the value, impacts and needs of a customer (internal or external) when considering changes, risks, decisions and paths forward
• Business acumen: Ability to understand business drivers, client needs, and how they translate into value and actionable ideas
• Drive and follow-through: Excellent organizational skills, work ethic, and passion to deliver on commitments. Experience in leadership roles and eager to expand this skillset. Knowledge of what needs to be done and how to work with others to help make it happen
• Agility: Comfort with ambiguous and complex problems, and a flexible and open-minded approach to new challenges. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Data fluency: Affinity to work with data and insights, synthesize data, optimize, and make recommendations to a variety of audiences. Data-driven when solving problems and ideating
• Communication: Clear articulation of ideas to a variety of audiences, including at executive level. Ability to write, speak, and present in a compelling manner
• Attitude: Optimistic style that creates positive working relationships, amplifies team culture, and fosters collaboration. Can-do attitude with out-of-the-box creativity when solving problems

Responsibilities

• Support and help manage cross-functional programs: Define program goals, frame workstreams and approach, establish roles & responsibilities and facilitate program routines to deliver in the most efficient way
• Drive progress and resolve roadblocks: Monitor and report on progress, identify and escalate issues, and work cross-functionally to address them proactively and creatively
• Ensure goals are met: manage timelines, track progress, analyze results, and ensure stated objectives are achieved. Assist with execution where needed, ensuring all aspects of programs are progressing smoothly
• Build and improve processes: Remove operational roadblocks, simplify, seek out, propose, and build new processes to help us achieve our objectives
• Lead with data: Partner with analytics and other teams to identify key insights, quantify opportunities/results, and ensure prioritization and capture of these opportunities
• Develop technical delivery plans which outline the milestones and check lists at various stages of the product delivery life cycle. Partner with product, design, analytics and engineering teams to develop project plans with technical activities
• Facilitate migrations and go-lives, inclusive of working with internal and external teams to develop migration / launch strategy, identify beta customers, develop communications and track go-to-market activities
• Support other strategic priorities: Support Product leadership on strategic and operational initiatives as required

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or similar project management certification is a plus
• Experience in strategy consulting, or in operations at a SaaS and/or Payments company is highly preferred
• Design thinking facilitation experience and mindset a bonus

Benefits

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