Sr Project Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Job Description

Join SADA as a Project Manager!Your Mission As a Project Manager at SADA, you will oversee the deployment of mid to large client deployments, ensuring that projects are delivered according to scope, budget, and schedule. You will also ensure that end-user requirements are met and manage resolutions to issues and risk mitigation plans. This role will require ongoing stakeholder management, as you’ll be responsible for the overall success of projects. The ideal candidate will be energetic, creative, enthusiastic, intelligent, analytical, and eager to take on responsibility and learn new skills. This is a prime environment if you enjoy working in a fast-paced organization and participating in a creative, exciting, fun, and teamwork-oriented environment. We are looking for those who want to grow with SADA for the long term.Primary Duties Include:

• Responsible for the overall operation of client deployments. This includes change management, deployment, and daily project management activities
• Report into the PMO for status, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
• Take on P&L responsibility for projects - to ensure scope is managed, change orders are tracked, quoted, and approved, and that the client is satisfied and informed at all times
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time
• Lead and motivate project teams, and overseeing engineers and change managers
• Work with sales team members to understand project requirements and clarify conceptual needs for migrations as needed
• Lead the estimation effort with the engineers and change managers
• Manage client expectations around delivery
• Assist in the development of detailed project specifications
• Utilizing project management applications to build out project timelines, make assignments, track projects, and use them to appropriately demonstrate project control with clients
• Bring and help implement best practices and methodologies at SADA
• Build documentation around processes and procedures for clients
• Communicate technical and business requirements with engineers, programmers, designers, and clients
  

Pathway to Success #BeOneStepAhead: Be prepared, work with intentional effort and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.
Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions. As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks. ExpectationsRequired Travel - 20-30% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.Training - Ongoing with first-week orientation at HQ followed by a 90-day onboarding schedule. Details of the timeline can be shared.Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Required Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of related experience in a technical/engineering environment
• Worked within a PMO or reported up to a PMO
• Certification or formal training in Project Management
• A minimum of 3 years experience in managing IT deployment projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to productively interact with Directors and CIOs at mid-to-large sized organizations
• Experience managing a team of engineers and change managers
• Strong problem solving and analytical/reasoning skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Positive attitude towards change and ability to adapt
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• A love for cloud computing
  

Useful Qualifications:

• Experience delivering and managing GCP and/or other public cloud projects

About SADAValues: We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer.

1. Make them rave
2. Be data-driven
3. Be one step ahead
4. Be a change agent
5. Do the right thing

Work with the best: SADA has been the largest partner in North America for GCP since 2016 and has been named the 2019 and 2018 Google Cloud Global Partner of the Year. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work by Inc. as well as LA Business Journal! Benefits: Unlimited PTO, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, rich medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K with match, professional development reimbursement program as well as Google Certified training programs.Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 12 years in a row garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 3000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 25M+ users migrated to the cloud.