This is a contingent position, and employment is dependent upon Element 84 receiving the contract award.

Element 84 is looking for a driven, experienced project manager to serve a client who is focused on rapidly building and launching a modernized version of a supply chain regulation platform. You’d keep the team and client on track as they redesign a large set of cohesive tools that serve a meaningful mission, ensuring safe working conditions and responsible business practices for some of the world's largest companies.

An ideal candidate for this role is excited to support engineers and designers in getting requirements just right through strong attention to detail and ability to collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, designers, and subject matter experts. You’re also motivated to ensure the team executes on time and on budget, using agile methods to drive incremental value. We’re seeking someone with past experience managing teams responsible for launching large-scale products.

At Element 84, project managers are expected to be intimately and proactively involved with their team's performance, execution, budget, and customer satisfaction. While each project's team can be different, often an Element 84 PM will act in the role of Scrum Master in the Agile Development Process, work with customers to make sure their requirements are translated into work from the team, and manage the delivery schedule.

What you’ll be doing

Project Leadership

• You serve as the Product Owner or Scrum Master on your projects. You manage sprint processes and ceremonies, monitor the progress of the project, and report project status and risks to the Business Unit Director.

• You set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor progress of your projects.

• You develop detailed project plans and roadmaps to communicate the vision and future of your project, and you map dependencies from your roadmap to other teams in your space.

• You make reliable, real-world time estimates and take into account previous iterations to continually improve your estimates.

• You incorporate quality measures and standards to project deliverables.

• You run formal planning sessions with all stakeholders to set the direction of your team's development efforts for a set duration of time.

• You approve timesheets for the development team, ensure staffing allocations are accurate in our time tracking system, monitor the project's budget, and manage resourcing for team members with multiple projects several months into the future.

• You work with the Business Development team to gather requirements, assess resourcing needs, plan project kickoff/initiation, review contracts, estimate budget, and both identify and mitigate risks for new projects.

• You understand the market in which your product lives, you are able to contextualize how your users interact with your product, and you are able to anticipate your customers' future needs.

• You understand the requirements and design implications for the product and operate as a thought partner in ensuring sound decisions are made that set the product up for long term success.

Stakeholder Management and Team Collaboration

• As a customer-facing leader, you help the team understand high-level customer goals and the value of individual feature requests so that the team may deliver the most value possible

• You help the customer understand Element 84's development process and advocate for better processes so that the development team is not hindered by external factors

• You seek opportunities to grow the team by engaging with the customer and driving a vision for your projects

• You build and maintain working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in your projects

• You are comfortable pushing back thoughtfully on either the team or stakeholders to ensure the project goals are kept in mind, but ensure a positive, thoughtful communication pattern is maintained and are willing to adjust if different methods or ideas better serve the project than the initial plans.

• You collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, business users, and other project managers to achieve elegant solutions

• You continually improve the experience of all involved in the project.

Risk Management

• You proactively identify and mitigate risks to the project.

• You appropriately communicate risks to the Business unit director if needed.

Technical Acumen

• You have a thorough understanding of the technology tools used on your project, and can explain and justify the use of these technologies.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience leading technical teams on large complex software platforms or products with a variety of stakeholders.

• Ability to schedule across time scales, from sprint scheduling to quarterly planning to Gantt chart-based longer term schedules.

• Familiarity with modern software development technologies and best practices

• Working knowledge of best practices for Agile and/or Scaled Agile Framework on large projects

• Experience serving as a Scrummaster.

• Ability to accurately and concisely convey information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience gathering requirements and reporting status to external clients.

• Comfortable reading and writing contract and proposal related documents.

• Experience working with multi-functional teams

• Microsoft Office & Google Docs

• Project Lifecycle Management (PLM)

• Budget, scope, and stakeholder management.

• Facilitating planning and estimation sessions.

• Conflict Resolution

• Travel is an essential component of this role, with approximately 4-6 trips per year expected to attend client meetings, industry conferences, or company events.

• Bachelor's Degree in math, science, business, or related field (will consider equivalent professional experience in lieu of degree)

• This position requires that applicants be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or at any time in the future, and be able to pass a general background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professionals (PMP) certification

• Certified Scrum Master certification (CSM)

About Element 84

Element 84 is a woman-owned small business that works with public, private, and non-profit sector clients to develop geospatial data processing pipelines & build software that helps answer big questions about our health, our infrastructure, and our changing planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our super power is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. Our headquarters is located in Alexandria, VA and we have a satellite office in Philadelphia, PA. Element 84 also supports a large remote workforce from a variety of other states.

A Few Other Things You Should Know

1. Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.

2. Element 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging—from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.

3. Element 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.

4. Element 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.

5. Element 84 is committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and respect for all individuals as we constantly strive to create a work environment where everyone feels welcome and supported.

About You

You are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.

You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.

Additional Information

Benefits

Paying attention to who we are as a company–people, family members, friends, and colleagues–is our primary focus at Element 84. There are lots of ways to run a company, and, for us, we prioritize wanting to come to work, being around people we enjoy, taking on big things with people you trust, and sharing our achievements as a team.

• You’ll get credit when things go right and we’ll have your back when things go wrong.

• We only take on work that is challenging and right for us. There are projects we will turn down and the team has a say.

• We may be a small company, but we have big company benefits meant to support the idea that we're here for the long term and happiness comes from much more than where you work.

• We have an extraordinary retention rate because we hire extraordinary people. We hope that’s you.

The salary range for this role is $125,000 - $153,000.

Actual compensation offered to candidate will be finalized at offer and may be above or below the posted range due to skill level, experience, industry-specific knowledge, education/certifications, or geographic location. Base salary represents just one component of the Element 84 total compensation package. Employees will also receive a number of benefits as listed below. Other compensation for this position may include bonus eligibility (dependent on employee performance and company profits).

This is a full time, salaried position. Please submit your information, resume and cover letter if you are interested. Remote candidates are considered if located in VA, DC, MD, PA, UT, NJ, TX, MN, FL, NH, OR, NM, OH, IN, AZ, CO, KS, MI, MT, SD, VT, CA, or IL (excluding Chicago).

Benefits Offered

• Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits

• Life Insurance, Short & Long Term disability insurance

• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance

• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with a fixed 3% of salary employer contributions (paid regardless of employee participation)

• Health savings account with a company contribution

• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care and transportation)

• Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment

• Flexible work schedules

• Paid employee assistance program

• 9 paid holidays

• 4 weeks + 1 day Paid Time Off per calendar year (prorated first year)

• Cell phone stipend
  

Element 84 is an equal opportunity employer.