Project Manager

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, OPE and Auto’s - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, our Company employs 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

Join us as a Project Manager in a rapidly expanding organization where your role will be instrumental in establishing project management discipline and capability. Collaborate across functions and management levels to project manage deliverables, serving as a catalyst for executing solutions to diverse business opportunities. Orchestrate projects from inception to deployment, managing schedules, scopes, budgets, and risks with precision. Utilize your influence to drive successful outcomes, engaging stakeholders at all levels and communicating progress effectively. Lead by example with a solutions mindset, energizing teams to overcome challenges and deliver impactful results to the organization. 

Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Manage a set of projects to help the project teams achieve required outcomes. Will include requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimates and implementation plans, including risk mitigation.
• Prioritization: Work with your manager on which projects are prioritized on your work plan, and once in-progress, manage your capacity according to that priority.
• Collaboration: Collaborate across a diverse set of stakeholders, including members of the multi- functional project team, levels of management and external stakeholders.
• Influence: Meet with people individually to influence outcomes and increase the probability of successful project delivery, both across functions and seniority.
• Stakeholder engagement: Ensure that project stakeholders’ expectations are heard, understood and well aligned with project objectives.
• Communication: Report together with the team the project progress, risks and decisions needed in regular management and sponsor updates. Confident presenting to all levels of the organization.
• Problem solve: role model a solutions mindset to overcome project challenges, enabling your project teams to work towards identified solutions.
• Energize: Help people to understand the impact project management has on the delivery of value to the organization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, or a relevant field
• 5 to 7 years of experience managing cross-functional projects
• Project Management Professional Certification, favorable not mandatory
• Proficiency in project management tools and software, as well as knowledge of relevant methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Strong writing and presentation skills, using Microsoft Office tools - Word, Excel, and Powerpoint - and Google workspace equivalents
• Capable of interacting via video conferencing and on-line communication tools: Zoom and Slack most prominently (Octane is both a remote work environment and has two physical offices in NYC and Dallas)
• Adaptive to learning quickly about the business problem your team is solving to effectively lead the project management
• Demonstrated maturity and interpersonal skills to collaborate with a fluid set of stakeholders that will vary by project
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines

Benefits:

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year 
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc.
• Gympass wellness benefit
• Powersports Safety Benefit

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

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