Senior Project Manager, PS

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and named to the UK’s Best Workplaces list published by Great Place to Work UK. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Summary: A Senior Project Manager is a member of the Professional Services delivery team that Implements Acquia Platform on behalf of customers and partners. A Senior Project Manager is responsible for the execution of a project according to Acquia’s methodology.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful delivery of customer projects using Acquia’s agile development methodology
• Accountable for monitoring change and alerting Program Management in order to meet or exceeding project goals, including budget, scope, and timeline goals
• Accountable for accurately communicating project status internally 
• Accountable for project compliance with Acquia processes and methodologies
• Accountable for continuous improvement of the project management discipline in Acquia’s Professional Services 
• Able to participate in face-to-face customer communication
• Efficiently and professionally facilitates meetings/presentations/trainings via online platforms (e.g. Zoom) and/or in person
• Ad Hoc duties as assigned

Key requirements:

• Can demonstrate organizational skills
• Can handle ambiguity, anticipate and identify the challenges that prevent progress
• Preferred 5-8 years experience in project management role within a digital/IT organization'
• Project Management and/or SCRUM certification preferred
• Awareness of content management and digital experience technologies 
• Communicates honestly, openly, with transparency.
• Delivers hard messages (with appropriate wording, tact, …); Fact-based communication; Handles pressure; Messaging in appropriate context.  Provide background, connect to the big picture
• Communicates complex ideas in easy to understand ways. Able to make connections between new, complex concepts and familiar, shared experiences. Able to connect the dots.
• Able to perceive project and organizational issues quickly through effective questioning and analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to grow and adapt into role and take on additional responsibilities 
• Willing to take responsibility and ownership.

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.