Technical Project Manager

Why Valence?

Valence is a digital strategy, design, and engineering firm that is centered on the client experience and informed by the future. We help businesses navigate their digital journey to unleash opportunity.

Valence has been named as one of the best places to work by the Puget Sound Business Journal every year since we were founded and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing businesses on the East Side.

Do you value quality, innovation, creativity, passion, collaboration, and growth?

We offer flexible options to work from home or collaborate with your team at our Bellevue office. Our culture is about continuous learning, direct communication, open doors, mutual respect at all levels, promoting innovation, and embracing creative ideas from everyone. At every phase of employment, we want our employees to feel seen and heard even before joining our team.

We offer fully paid medical benefits for employees and their families, 401(k) match, generous PTO, flexible work schedules, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and plenty of company and team connection events.

Valence is a dynamic place to build your career, innovate and learn. Come join us – let’s build potential together!

Are you passionate about exploring new and emerging technologies and how they can be used to solve challenging problems?  If so, then this may be the right opportunity for you.  As a Technical Project Manager at Valence, you will work alongside a group of talented engineers, project managers and analysts defining and implementing end-to-end, leading-edge solutions for our enterprise clients. With Valence, you can work in a collaborative environment where you can influence direction and see the impacts of your contributions. We love to innovate and are looking for people with a passion for learning and growing their technical skills.

In this role, you will:

• Plan, manage, monitor project workstreams and interdependencies
• Lead scrum ceremonies and act as a servant leader for the project teams
• Ensure all project / program tasks are clearly understood, assigned and tracked.
• Develop relationships and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and cross functional teams to ensure solutions meet timeline and business objectives
• Identify critical program milestones, risks and options to mitigate risks
• Investigate to understand where problems are likely to occur
• Clarify problems by driving to understand the true issue
• Assess issues by identifying likely root causes and consequences
• Effectively manage and report on risks and mitigation, scope, budget and timelines
• Create plan of action based on data from multiple sources inside and outside immediate area
• Complete all project documentation required based on our PMO process
• Complete projects and delivers agreed results
• Identify valid and relevant data supporting key decisions
• Use judgment to involve other senior team members when navigating difficult stakeholder issues
• Know when and how to escalate. May not always be able to solve a problem, but understands when to escalate issues and areas of risk and obtain guidance
• Consider project needs when planning vacation time and proactively communicates availability

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Technical Project Management background, ideally in a cloud /distributed environment.
• Able to distill complex data/analyses into understandable information, guidance and actions.
• Strong Agile methodology fundamentals and ability to teach / train best practices within Agile
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills both internally and across partner teams.
• Preferred qualifications for this position include:
  • Software / Technology development experience 
  • Previous experience managing software development teams / projects using Agile methodologies
  • Experience delivering products leveraging cloud services (Azure, AWS)
  • PMP Certification is also a nice addition, but not required 

What we offer:

• Fully paid medical/dental/vision benefits for you and your family
• 401(k)-fully vested immediately, 4% match @ 100%
• 3 weeks of PTO, plus 8 paid holidays
• Flexible work schedules, telecommute options available (must be local)
• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Plan for dependent care, health care and commuter/transit costs
• Short & Long-Term Disability, fully paid for Life Insurance
• Numerous company and team building events
• Low-stress interview process
• Creative work culture with automated stand-ups, chatbot HR tools, and our own Innovation Studio

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL AT VALENCE?

You have a passion for innovation and technology. You have a sense of humor. You believe in the potential in everyone. You are ego-free. You're collaborative and value a work culture where great ideas can come from anyone.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.