Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join MongoDB as a Senior Project Manager and play a crucial role in delivering successful projects for our diverse clientele. This remote or hybrid position, based on the east coast, demands expertise in project planning and execution, ensuring projects meet scope and budget. You will navigate complex enterprise organizations, manage stakeholder relationships, and lead project teams to deliver high-quality results. The role involves collaborating with various internal teams and customers, managing scope, change controls, and expectations. You will also contribute to pre-sale engagements and the continuous improvement of MongoDB's project delivery methodologies. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact on our customers' success.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of project management experience with enterprise-scale software solutions, large-scale software engineering or consulting services delivery experience preferred
• Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills (ability to present to different audiences and bring the message across in a concise, professional manner)
• Demonstrated leadership skills within complex, transformative projects, with direct responsibility for leading project teams, delivering high quality results on schedule and within budget
• Strong working knowledge of the Agile framework and related practices

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for project planning and execution, customer experience, and ensuring MongoDB delivery meets committed scope and budget
• Employ project management excellence to navigate with agility the complex organizations of large enterprises, building mindshare to plan and execute programs likely to have ambiguous risks and challenges
• Maintain excellence of project governance with internal and customer stakeholders, managing day-to-day project planning and execution, project scope, expectations and risks, and ensuring timelines are met and quality results produced
• Lend support to pre-sale engagements to assist with scoping of solution and project scope definition
• Adopt and contribute to the continuous improvement of MongoDB's engagement and project delivery methodologies
• Confidently lead project meetings, owning meeting agenda and meeting outcomes
• Lead the management of scope, change controls, customer expectations and timelines
• Act as a liaison between the customer, project team and the rest of MongoDB (sales, customer success, support, product and engineering) throughout an engagement
• Create plans and priorities for both project delivery and customer resources. Guide customer as well as project team members to a successful business outcome by managing the client relationship and setting and managing customer expectations during implementations
• Establish and lead recurring project status or governance meetings, including preparation of materials and working with customer project manager and key internal and external stakeholders to review key project information and maintain visibility and accountability
• Manage escalations or critical situations
• Adopt a consultative and prescriptive approach that inspires trust and confidence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a SCRUM master
• Experience in managing projects with a high degree of uncertainty (research and innovation)
• Experience in delivering software development projects (ideally modernization of a legacy application)
• Experience with JIRA / Project tools
• Certification or deep experience with standard frameworks such as the PMI PMBOK, or Scrum methodologies would be beneficial

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings
• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program