What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager, Software position at Able?
We are Able, a company building products through a portfolio model, and we are looking to grow our team with a Senior Technical Project Manager.
Do you want to enable developers, designers, and product managers to build the highest quality product for our partners? Would you love to represent the partner's perspective internally, execute an effective project process, manage communications, and ensure an optimal client experience is delivered?
If so, Able may be the place you’ve been waiting for. We are a passionate and good-willed team building creative and innovative projects and we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll be doing
As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will bring your advanced knowledge of agile and lean practices, sharing your passion to keep up with evolving practices as a way to constantly improve delivery. You will be able to anticipate and address risks, blockers, and other potential roadblocks in advance, delivering partner excellence.
If you like solving problems and tackling challenges in a supportive environment, and love shipping code at a huge scale; Able is the place for you!
In short, someone who likes:
- working in a fast-paced environment and can handle multiple simultaneous deadlines
- creating collaborative partnerships. You align Able’s needs with partner needs and maintain the relationship to provide an excellent level of service to our partners, from staff-level engineers and project managers to business and technology executives
- helping launch and scale our partners' products. Learning new skills and constantly looking for ways of optimizing your own performance.
- working closely with engineers, product teams, and partners to shape and ship effective solutions managing schedule, team resources, scope, risk, and cost across project life cycles.
- discovering opportunities to improve the workflow of daily tasks and led efforts to drive improvements in team efficiency
- using data-driven insights. Have strong data analysis skills and know-how to appropriately evaluate metrics for informed decision-making.
- coaching and providing help to other team members to ensure everyone’s unblocked to perform their responsibilities.
- solving problems. Each step in planning and executing a project usually requires some problem-solving. Outstanding Technical Project Managers are creative thinkers with excellent problem-solving abilities.
What we’re looking for
We want to work with people who have a passion for collaborating with their teams to develop and manage all project plans. Someone who feels comfortable managing multiple time-sensitive client projects throughout all phases of the development life cycle.
Ideally, they would also have:
- Around 10 years of experience as a software engineer or equivalent working with digital products at growth-stage technology companies.
- Around 5 years as a project manager at a digital agency or growth-stage technology company
- Deep knowledge of product development life cycle.
- The ability to translate complex business problems by collaborating with technical teams to build project plans and product specifications through collaboration and project management tools.
- Previous experience coaching people to help them reach professional opportunities
- Humility and willingness to roll up sleeves and take ownership of clearing any obstacles the team faces.
- Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills
This position is 100% remote. We are looking for talent who can commit to at least 5 hours of overlap with our main team’s office working hours in NYC (mostly 9 am to 6 pm)
Don’t think you are quite there, yet? That’s fine too. Let’s talk and share with us your story!
What you’ll love about Able
- We are a team of all-around company builders who are both ambitious and humble
- Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
- We host employee events (when it is safe to do so)
- We believe in giving back to the community and helping others, which is why give the team social impact hours to use at their discretion.
- We offer flexible paid time off for all full-time employees (this includes vacation, sick days, and wellness days because we understand the value of health, relaxation, spending time with friends and family, and traveling the world)
- We believe a healthy body equals a healthy mind, so we offer a monthly health and wellness reimbursement
Able's Values
- Put People First: We're caring, open, and encouraging. We respect the richness that we each bring into our work.
- Imagine Better: We are optimistic in our outlook, as well as creative and proactive to deliver the highest quality.
- Expect Excellence: We commit to each other to always strive to be our best.
- Simplify to Solve: We create better outcomes by reducing complexity.
- We are all Builders: We are motivated and empowered to help build Able, and our partner's businesses.
- One Able. Many Voices: Our unity is our strength. Our diversity is our energy.
About Able
Able was founded in 2013 on the premise that entrepreneurs and philanthropists needed a better service model for building technology.
Today we're 80 exceptionally talented builders throughout North and Latin America. We've developed our own products, and we've launched, innovated and scaled projects for our partners.
We believe talent and teams come first. Our environment allows us to work on diverse, high-impact products and technology in a truly people-oriented culture. We value outcomes over effort, and strive to get better every day.
Our unique model allows us to field a focused, dedicated team of designers, engineers, and all-around company builders. Each team is outcome-oriented, designed to seamlessly integrate with our partners, and ready to adapt as their business evolves.
Let’s build together.
Able is committed to inclusion and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.