Lead Engineering Project / Program Manager (RapidScale)

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Engineering / Product Development

Lead Engineering Project / Program Manager

Manager - Non People LeaderCan work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region

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Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $106,700.00 - $177,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

RapidScale is the managed cloud partner that turns technology into your most significant competitive advantage.  Our Information Technology team is seeking an experienced candidate who will be responsible for planning and coordinating all aspects of our sales systems from initiation to delivery.  Develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation process including resources allocation, progress tracking, documentation, and on-time delivery within budget constraints.

This position requires a business interface, high collaboration with others, and participation in a structured system across the lines of business to ensure effective solutions are in place and operating effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to support at least one complex project requiring high levels of functional integration and multiple medium sized projects

• Collaborate with Sales, Sales Operations, Operations, Legal and Finance teams at multiple levels to accomplish lead to cash objectives

• Review and prioritize enhancement request from the Sales Operations organization while balancing ongoing strategic projects

• Ability to craft detailed project requirements to provide to IT development teams

• Ability to conduct user acceptance testing of features and functions provided by the development teams

• Ability to train non-technical users on features and functions

• Creating reports or dashboards to track team and project related key metrics.

• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings

• Communicate interdepartmentally to ensure client/ company goals and needs are clear and addressed in a timely manner

• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (technology or science, or engineering-related field of study) and 6 years’ experience in a related field

• The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years’ experience in a related field

• Salesforce certified administrator or consultant in sales or service cloud

• Experience influencing a large and dispersed team

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent experience such as Program Management Professional (PgMP) / Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) / Agil Certified Practitioner (ACP) //PRINCE 2 Practitioner by AXELOS or Master Project Manager by AAPM)

• Five or more years of verifiable experience working on Waterfall and Agile projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and ability to influence

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with multiple project management software platforms with a demonstrated history of learning new systems quickly

• Familiarity with a Managed Service business model

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.Cox Communications is all about creating moments of real human connection; and for employees, that’s true both in the workplace and in the problems we solve for customers. From building advertising solutions to unleashing IoT technologies to creating an exceptional experience for customers in our retail locations and online, we’re creating a world that is smarter and more connected. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.