Senior Project Manager

First Orion is seeking a talented Project Manager role for telecom solution implementation. The Project Manager plans, controls, and executes a project or set of related projects to meet business goals within agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality constraints. This role involves delivering medium to large sized Telecom Development projects with medium risk and complexity.

What you'll be doing:

• Foster collaboration with product, development, and operational teams to design, implement and support telecom solutions
• Initiate and lead process improvement efforts driven by business and project goals
• Directly manage internal and external stakeholders, as required, to drive the project to be delivered on-time, within scope and budget
• Lead process of issue/risk identification and resolution. Create escalation paths for topics and issues that cannot be resolved in a timely manner
• Communicates project status, issues, and risks in order to achieve alignment with business goals
• Create and manage project plans
• Manage project related documentation
• Develop communication protocols/plan for projects
• Coordinate and run internal and external meetings, including build-out of agenda, minutes, actions, presentations and planned messaging
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in IT implementations, Telecom experience preferred
• 5 + years of client-facing experience
• 3+ years of IT project management experience delivering medium to large complex projects
• ITIL and PMP (or equivalent) Certification is a plus
• Good communication (i.e. written, verbal, presentation), leadership and negotiation skills
• Excellent project management, problem solving, and analytical skills, and the ability to execute a project within the agreed scope
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time, effective time management skills
• Ability to accomplish tasks timely with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment when required
• Ability to evaluate multiple projects to identify risks, obligations and scope gaps on projects
• Ability to anticipate issues and solve practical problems
• Highly adaptable to changing needs within the organizations- adapts to rapidly changing priorities and resilient to coping with conflicting demands, able to prioritize duties and work under pressure

Bonus Points:

• Hands-on experience with industry tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, Lucid Chart (or similar process flow tool), as well as any type of Product Roadmap tool knowledge

Company Benefits:

Our work environment is energetic, focused, fun, and collaborative. We've created a special culture where trust and transparency are the key and employees are empowered to make their own decisions. Our people are passionate about what we do and have an indomitable spirit to get things done. Everyone is a part of the big picture here.

First Orion has been voted a Great Place to Work with top rankings in every category! Learn more about what our employees have to say on our First Orion Glassdoor page!

At this time, we are not able to sponsor visas, such as H-1B, for this particular position, Senior Project Manager. First Orion is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. First Orion's immigration sponsorship policy is applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion regardless of race, gender, ethnic origin, or any other classification protected by law. First Orion is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.