Senior Strategic Project Manager - Remote

Requisition #:13305

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

Take a leap of certainty with Ansys.

SUMMARY

The Senior Strategic Project Manager will work as part of our Partnerships team that enables our ecosystem programs including Academic, Startup and Developer Partner Programs. In this role, the manager will be responsible for ensuring and managing progress on defined strategic projects. The Senior Strategic Project Manager will work with key stakeholders across the Ansys organization as well as with key partners externally. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, the manager will track project status while mitigating issues and risks and keeping stakeholders moving forward. While some strategic projects will have a clear start and end, there is long-term potential for ownership of mature projects that become part of our core program strategy. This position is part of a team that has a can-do culture with a strong sense of rolling your sleeves up to help and enable broader efforts.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and manage multiple projects across the Academic, Startup and Developer Partner Programs team that may involve multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Connect the big picture between projects and the defined program goals
• Lead the creation of project-specific deliverables, identifying and pulling in appropriate stakeholders, managing team contributions, and providing overall progress towards desired result
• Create status reports for leadership outlining progress of project activities as well as potential challenges and risks
• Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree
• A desire to learn new things and take on new challenges
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives
• Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills, including the ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace, and execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Experience in partnering with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to identify and address project issues and deliver desired project outcomes
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to deliver effective presentations, and a proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
• Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
• Sound business and technical acumen

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in technical or software company preferred

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential in the knowledge that every day is an opportunity to observe, teach, inspire, and be inspired.Together as One Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement.

Our Commitments:

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

OUR ONE ANSYS CULTURE HAS INCLUSION AT ITS CORE

We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive.

TAKE A LEAP OF CERTAINTY IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high - met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost.

At Ansys, it's about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It's about the "what's next" as much as the "mission accomplished." And it's about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.

CREATING A PLACE WE'RE PROUD TO BE

Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: America's Most Loved Workplaces, Gold Stevie Award Winner, America's Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, U.K.).

For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.

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