Project Manager, Marketing
Vanta
Incident Response Project Manager
Abacus Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Coordinates multiple, external technical projects from inception to completion:
- Follows established core processes, project templates, and methodologies
- Takes a lead in Professional Services stand-ups & meetings
- Collaborates on project planning, project design, preparation of deliverables, timelining, and contingency planning
- Understands SOW requirements and converts them into realistic, executable project plans
- Manages the project resources to effectively execute on-time deliverables
- Tracks and manages the project budget from the outset through successful completion
- Tracks and oversees T&M project scope and related time entries, confirming their validity
- Employs creative measures to keep project scope contained
- Ensures QA standards are being met before project delivery
- Outlines goals, strategy, and execution with Entara’s engineers:
- Assists in the initial triage and establishment of access for project kick-off
- Drives team’s development of project proposals and scope documentation
- Leverages conflict management techniques to address disagreements
- Assigns and aligns necessary resources, understanding resource requirements and capacity (perm or contracted) on projects, maximizing available resources and leveraging each engineer’s skill set effectively
- Follows up with engineers on a weekly, daily, or (when necessary) hourly basis to understand the progress of their assigned work and to identify potential roadblocks
- Monitors and summarizes progress of project(s) to stakeholders:
- Entara Leadership
- Finance
- Client Contacts and IR Partners
- Sets and conducts status meetings with client contacts, keeping them informed of progress and setting proper expectations
- Leads the creation of PowerPoint presentations and project reports as required for large projects
- Participates in incident response on-call rotation for incoming IR projects
- Identifies and understands when it is necessary to escalate issues to higher-level resources
- Addresses billing disputes, overruns, and customer service issues with meaningful resolutions, looping in additional Entara resources as necessary
- Conducts post-mortems to outline lessons learned and improve internal processes
- Becomes an active part of project teams solving technical or business roadblocks until a resolution is reached and the outcome is personally verified
- Perseveres in making sound judgment calls when lacking one or more desired resources or data points
- Challenges technical or business requirements ensuring that we deliver the right solution, at the right price, at the right time
- Leverages and employs an understanding of intermediate to advanced systems configuration, management, and maintenance in areas including the following (this is a sample but not exhaustive listing of work areas and project tasks assigned to our IR-focused engineers):
Requirements
- You’re a knowledge seeker. Regardless of method, you have obtained and exposed yourself to knowledge centers that have qualified you to master technical project delivery and the systems engineering required to successfully recover, deploy, and enhance infrastructures. You ideally have a four-year degree in a relevant field and are working towards or have already obtained your PMP certification.
- You’ve managed projects as the assigned “PM” instead of only having delivered them as an engineer. You enjoy the dynamic of wearing multiple hats and taking the lead on client-facing communication, expectations, and timelines.
- You’ve owned client-facing projects and have established a consultative rapport resulting in high client satisfaction levels upon project closure.
- You have at least 5 years of experience delivering IT waterfall projects working with systems and virtualization with exposure to enterprise infrastructures.
- You keep us true to our word. You have a tried-and-true organizational system to keep yourself (and others) on task while ensuring exceptional quality.
- You possess a winning combination of superb writing skills and highly refined verbal communication skills. You convey energy, confidence, and genuine interest over a call just as easily as you convey competence, professionalism, and trustworthiness in person. You translate to a C-Suite audience as seamlessly as you “talk tech” with engineers. Your emails are professionally worded, grammatically pristine, with the right pinch of personality. In any medium, you pride yourself in clear, effective, and persuasive communication.
- You have an approach to working hours that is more adaptable than the traditional "9-to-5". As this team responds to business-critical remediation projects, we are looking for an individual who is career-driven and won’t shrink back when work requirements extend into evenings, weekends, and holidays. While travel is minimal, you’re also open to getting on a plane when needed to be present at client sites when a project requires it. On the flip side, your hard work is rewarded with a generous comp plan that grows with the efforts you contribute, a flexible PTO policy, and an equally inspiring team that climbs mountains together.
- You are ready to be an effective remote worker and have a dedicated, private space for a home office with a private internet connection with at least 50MBPS bandwidth. Public WiFi and shared common spaces do not meet these standards.
Benefits
- Exposure to a diverse array of technologies.
- Internal opportunities for career advancement.
- Part of a team of experienced professionals that aim to deliver exceptional service
- Competitive compensation.
- Robust benefits package: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k, and PTO.
- Opportunities to further technical education through online courses.
- Positive, friendly, and supportive office environment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementsystems engineeringIT waterfall projectssystems configurationproject planningbudget managementscope managementquality assuranceincident responseresource allocation
Soft skills
communication skillsorganizational skillsconflict managementclient-facing communicationteam leadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitywriting skillsinterpersonal skillstime management
Certifications
PMP certificationfour-year degree in relevant field
