Senior Engagement Program Manager

Summary

Join Rackspace as a Senior Engagement Program Manager and lead medium to large, complex projects for our clients. You will develop project plans, manage customer relationships, and ensure projects meet objectives within budget and time constraints. This remote role (with a hybrid option near San Antonio) requires strong project management skills, experience with cloud technologies, and relevant certifications. You will collaborate with engineers, create reports, and conduct presentations to stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in field related to role required. At the Manager's discretion, 4 years of additional related experience may substitute for the degree requirement; if substitution allowed, regional equivalent to High School Diploma is required
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the field of role required
• At least one of the following certifications is required: Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe
• Solid understanding of SDLC and when to apply agile vs. traditional methodologies to achieve the best outcome
• Knowledge in filtering and providing data and reports to customers, utilizing PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, define timeframes, prioritize tasks and monitor progress to achieve objectives
• Manage customers, aligning business objectives with coordinated service deliveries, and ensure that our customers maximize the value they are seeing from their investment
• Work with customers by utilizing your project management skills to put together on-boarding schedules and tasks
• Provide guidance on how best to utilize our services, provide an escalation point for issues, and help provide reporting to ensure customers’ faith in the service
• Create monthly and quarterly business reports to customers that demonstrate the ongoing value that our services provide
• Collaborate with cloud engineers on ongoing backlog grooming and seek out new work within the bounds of active customer engagements
• Lead the root cause analysis effort with the delivery team, when issues within a customer engagement arise
• Coordinate different stakeholder perspectives to develop solutions; thinks holistically to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries
• Make accurate judgments regarding time required to complete work; proactively manage team to ensure deadlines are successfully met; balances priorities simultaneously and seeks guidance when necessary
• Conducts presentations in executive settings to convey project management, risk and technical information to stakeholders with varying comprehension levels
• Use prescribed guidelines or processes in analyzing situations
• Profile customer stakeholders to gain awareness of differing perspectives
• Anticipate and take action to accomplish objectives; finds alternatives; accepts ownership for individual and team performance
• Manage multiple tasks with constrained resources, determining relative urgency to make difficult trade-offs; maintains focus despite competing priorities and frequent context shifting
• Identify methods for collecting data, performs data analyses and articulates findings
• Develop simple models to understand the potential impacts of decisions under various scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

• Customer-facing consulting experience
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, software development, networking infrastructure, data, and/or security
• At least one cloud platform foundational certification is preferred: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Technical background (software development/engineering, database/system design, IaaS)
• Self-starter with results-oriented, proactive management approach
• Ability to learn on the job quickly and desire to develop expertise in AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Ability to work in a fast-paced consulting environment and collaborate effectively as a team member

Benefits

• Remote work in the U.S.A
• Hybrid work option (3 days remote, 2 days in office) for candidates within 40 miles of San Antonio office
• The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $116,100 - $170,280
• The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $123,600 - $181,280
• The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City, and Washington is: $135,300 - $198,440
• Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments