Project Manager overseeing budgets, schedules, staff, and contractors for Wood’s global mining and metals engineering projects. Hybrid role based in Saskatoon.
About the role
- Project Manager coordinating distributed software teams and language technology field trials for SIL, a global nonprofit. Aligning product roadmaps, Agile processes, budgets, user research, and stakeholder reporting across language programs.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the work of distributed software development teams and field trial users throughout the product lifecycle
- Manage project schedules, communications, dependencies, financial management, and progress communication to external funders and co-development partners
- Collaborate with the Development team, Language Technology leadership, partners, supporting organizations, user communities, and field-trial leaders
- Align technology roadmaps and sprint priorities with language program roadmaps
- Develop processes for collecting, synthesizing, and presenting team progress and process data
- Champion team processes and development velocity in alignment with product strategy
- Organize and manage user research deliverables and resulting insights
- Coordinate product long-term vision and strategy with language program strategies
- Align product development priorities and processes with language program roadmaps
- Support yearly budget and funding proposals, budget development, and partnership reporting
- Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
- Research, champion, and deploy process management systems and applications
- Oversee integration of Agile software development methodologies with language program methodologies
- Lead regular project status, planning, and partnership meetings
- Support reporting of project hardware, software budget, and immediate needs
- Travel to meet the larger development team and attend the Language Technology Conference
Requirements
- Experience managing projects for software engineering teams
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience leading development teams in a project management role
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in project management for software development teams preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of software development processes and methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex team interactions and interdependencies affecting product development or priorities
- Appreciation for quality user interface design
- Good interpersonal communication skills
- Good organizational skills
- Ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing product offering
- Ability to make timely decisions
- Ability to generate and analyze multiple solutions to a problem
- Ability to quickly learn technical concepts
- Ability to work with a team and independently, and multitask effectively
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience preferred
- PMP certification is a strong plus
- Must be able to legally work within the U.S.
- Must complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation
- Ability to travel to meet the larger development team at least once per year
- Ability to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
Benefits
- Full-time or volunteer professional opportunity
- Paid - Regular position
- Opportunity to make a difference through SIL’s global faith-based nonprofit mission
- Travel to meet the larger development team at least once per year
- Travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
- Participation in professional conferences and meetings
- Initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation
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