Careers

Project Manager

Message Systems, the premier provider of email and campaign management solutions, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Columbia, MD team.

The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to drive a release from start to finish, produce effective status communication, and seamlessly integrate the needs of disparate teams into a cohesive plan.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the project schedule, budget, risk register, resource plan and other key project artifacts for multiple simultaneous projects.
• Manage project scope, execute the change management process and ensure successful project completion.
• Participate in the development of Business Requirements, Statements of Work (SOWs) or Proposals in conjunction with product and engineering management.
• Coordinate Level of Efforts (LOEs) and project estimates using appropriate techniques to estimate project tasks.
• Ensure project stage gate reviews are organized and executed appropriately.
• Ensure timely project communications including weekly status reports (internal and customer-facing where appropriate) and dashboards.
• Champion and contribute to Message Systems’ Product Development Process and ensure compliance throughout project lifecycle.
• Perform post project reviews to capture lessons learned, close out project documentation, assess estimate accuracy, change rates, defect metrics, etc.

Skills Required

• Bachelor’s Degree
• PMP Certification, preferred
• 5 years recent project management experience with at least 3 years in a software development environment
• Strong and polished written skills and verbal communications, including executive level briefings
• Strong interpersonal, communication, problem solving and reasoning skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with moderate to high change rates
• Experience in IEEE, CMMi, and multiple SDLC models (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall, etc.)
• Expertise with project management tools such as Microsoft Project
• Travel 5%-10% depending on specific projects

This position is full-time in our Columbia, MD office. We're only considering candidates with existing US work eligibility.

Send applications to jobs@messagesystems.com.