Associate Director, Project Manager

USA (On-site)

$65/hr – $75/hrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Lead and own end-to-end Adobe-focused client engagements, guiding delivery, governance, and stakeholder management across multi-team projects.

  • Own project delivery lifecycle from kickoff to closure
  • Align scope, requirements, and change management with client expectations
  • Foster client relationships and drive repeat business

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as Lead Consultant on customer engagements that may involve multiple project teams from our client and customer organizations
  • Clearly understand and communicate customer requirements and integration points in the context of the statement of work.
  • Oversee project delivery process with key contributors to help manage scope and prepare change requests, including tasks, deliverables, milestones, resources, and estimated costs.
  • Manage all day-to-day administrative activities of a given project from inception to closure.
  • Accurately forecast revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects.
  • Maintain regular communication with both the customer and internal teams and constantly manage customer expectations.
  • Achieve customer satisfaction through successful delivery of defined project scope.
  • Compile customer requests and deployment issues, to provide a feedback channel into our core products.
  • Act as the central client point of contact throughout the life of the project
  • Capture and communicate experiences in formal post-mortem, feeding lessons learned, best practices and resources back into the consulting practice

Requirements

  • Must have experience with one or more Adobe Experience Cloud solutions – most preferred are AEM, AEP
  • 5-7+ years experience as a project manager, including delivering enterprise-scale web applications or analytics implementations
  • Experience in client facing project management in an agency or professional services environment
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to identify issues, solve them quickly and well, and know when to rely on internal resources to assist.
  • Professional demeanor with a proven ability to lead diverse, multi-functional teams across an organization (e.g., within Adobe) and effectively communicate and influence senior client executives, including CMOs and CXOs.
  • Expert in managing complex, high-traffic service launches and operations, demonstrating superb organizational skills and success in building and leading exceptional, often virtual, teams in ambiguous environments.
  • Prior experience with the launch and operation of a highly available, high traffic internet or mobile service.
  • Proven ability to understand the impact of technical changes, and to articulate high level technical solutions to address business problems.
  • Solid understanding of custom software development processes and engagement methodologies. Practical experience in managing agile development projects is a plus.
  • Ability to manage in an environment of ambiguity with diverse stakeholders.

Preferred

  • One of the following certifications: Project Management Professional, Agile, Certified ScrumMaster, PRINCE2, or equivalent
  • Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamics and Workfront
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