Remote
Technical Project Manager
About this role
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: As an Implementation Consultant, you will serve Instructure’s customers by fulfilling both project management and technical consultation responsibilities.
Project Management Responsibilities: Initiation - Perform project requirements gathering to inform the project planning process. - Ensure project resources know their responsibilities for the project and who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed at each part of the project lifecycle. - As appropriate, create project charter documentation for internal and external stakeholders. Planning - Prepare project schedule and aligned resource assignment.
- Proactively identify project risks and create mitigation plans for those risks. - Craft and coordinate communication plans that will keep all project participants updated and aware of the project status. Execution - Manage expectations with clients and internal resources. - Create and maintain documentation relevant to project deliverables. - In collaboration with leadership, ensure that the proper resources are allocated to projects in order to achieve project objectives.
- Coordinate with subject matter experts and escalation points to clear project blockers and to proactively mitigate risks. - Orchestrate services delivery that includes third parties that are part of the project. - Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs in accordance with company change management processes. Monitoring and Controlling - Apply project controls to delivery processes to ensure on time and within budget delivery of professional services.
- Provide regular project status updates to internal and external audiences, and demonstrate ability to properly tailor communication to the different audiences. - Build and maintain project plans and templates within our project management tools. Closure - Work with Customer stakeholders to obtain acceptance for project deliverables. - Ensure that project documentation is complete and provided to relevant stakeholders at project close.