Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions. The Project Manager will deliver solutions to solve clients' business challenges by managing high complexity technical implementations and promoting the adoption of Red Hat's solutions through project management expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Guide customers from initiation through successful delivery of software services engagements
- Coordinate cross functional teams (through meetings and progress measurement activities) which bring projects to completion on time, within budget and with excellent customer satisfaction
- Actively identify, communicate, and mitigate projects risks and resolve issues
- Develop and effectively present project collateral
- Support accounting activities to support burn reporting, revenue, forecasting, and invoicing
- Continuously learn, grow, and adapt to new skills and technologies
- Travel weekly, Monday-Thursday, to client locations, some potentially outside your local area
- Develop innovative solutions for customers’ problems utilizing open practice library methodologies along with industry standard project management practices and Red Hat policies and procedures
- Interact with all project resources and Senior Red Hat and Customer management, and Red Hat Support teams, for example, Resource Management, Operations and Finance
Requirements:
- Active Top Secret security clearance
- Experience with delivering technical consulting engagements using industry specific methodologies to the U.S. Government
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and lead a project delivery team
- Demonstrated ability to meet client need and interface with executive leadership
- Ability to identify stakeholder needs and set expectations regarding project timelines and scope of work
- Experience working collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders
- Knowledge and desire to mentor
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience leading successful modern cloud platform consulting engagements and implementing and integrating Red Hat's open hybrid cloud technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
- Broad and deep experience with project management standards like PMP, CMS, SAFe, or equivalent
- Practical experience with the software development lifecycle and DevSecOps approaches
- Experience with financial tools like SalesForce and professional services automation platforms
- Proven ability to manage project budgets, including P&L oversight, financial forecasting, and resource allocation to ensure fiscal health
- Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets for data analysis, project tracking, and executive-level reporting
- Able to work with the leadership team to promote the adoption of best practices and processes to improve the velocity and success of consulting engagements
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills