Position: Head of Project Management
Company: Speed&Function
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Your role responsibilities would include, approximately:
Manage, mentor and develop project managers within the context of their contribution to cross-functional teams via a matrix reporting structure. 
Implement project management best practices in all projects, both client-facing and internal. 
Player-coach PMs within select projects. 
Look into the future and risk-manage. 
Contribute to revenue-related initiatives (sales, conversion). 
Executive reporting. 
Facilitate establishing and upgrading our internal and external relationships to partnership through coaching, training and example. 
Operational management: assigning managers to projects, managing their workload, planning and tracking their training, retention, compensation models, etc.

You're a fit if you have: 
7+ years of Project Management
5+ years in custom software technology
3+ years of leadership
Scrum
Reconciling budgets, timelines, escalations and stakeholder expectations
United States-based clients
Fluent English
Mastery of trust-building, such as trustedadvisor.com
Coaching skills
Cross-functional experience in product management, coding, client management, sales, QA and other delivery-related functions 
Desired: understanding of developmental psychology
Desired: US visa

Goals for the evaluation period: 

Evaluate and report on the current state of affairs: the PMO practice and individual member development level
Develop project health metrics and implement a reporting system
Based on the 2 items above, develop the PMO strategy that the leadership team will accept
Demonstrate strong coaching and mentoring skills
Demonstrate strong escalation handling skills, where an escalation is resolved resulting in a happy client and converted into a set of processes that is scaled to the rest of the PMO team/projects
Collect feedback from everyone you’ve closely interacted with (PMO, engineering and leadership team members) using the Client Score / NPS and Retrospective approaches. The result is that 80% of people surveyed indicated a high level of trust and expressed a strong desire to continue working with you. 

1-year goal:

In cooperation with our Client Success team, sell/convert one PM-as-a-Service project independent of our application development services and receive positive feedback from the client. The PM engaged on such a project has never directly managed external teams through S&F before. 

Logistics: 
This position is full-time remote with occasional need for on-site collaboration in various offices (Budva, Philadelphia, Lviv, etc). 
Work hours are flexible, with our core locations overlap (ET, CET, EET). 

About the company:
Speed & Function does software development that’s so collaborative, it’s practically built in-house. That is, in fact, the cornerstone of our philosophy – we act as collaborators, not contractors. In business since 2006, our mission is to build a unique working framework that’s relevant to 21st-century challenges and allows for the delivery of both state-of-the-art tech solutions and amazing collaboration experiences. Also, we are striving to become a Deliberately Developmental Organization. That is how we’ll create a place that embraces both human and tech flourishing in its entirety.