Project Director

McFadyen Digital is seeking a highly skilled Project Director to lead innovative e-commerce solutions for Fortune 500 companies. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing large-scale, complex web integration projects, ensuring streamlined deployments, and driving new business development.

• Manage customer expectations and communicate effectively with sales, development teams, and corporate management.
• Oversee the documentation of requirements analysis, design specifications, test plans, and executive briefings.
• Active participation in new business development, including estimating project scope, costs, duration, and resource requirements in written proposals.
• Leadership experience in web project management, including full life-cycle systems development and implementation.
• Oversee the proper analysis and documentation of the client's specific business processes and other IT needs.

• Recommend best practice solutions based on experience, research, and visionary thinking.
• Ensure high-quality, on-time deliverables within budget.
• Implement and revise our Agile-based project methodologies as technologies and solutions evolve.
• Assist in recruiting, managing, and mentoring employees.
• Travel to customer sites as needed.
• Provide weekly written status reports and expense reports.

• Knowledge of resource allocation and planning.
• Experience with an offshore and onshore development model.
• Hands-on experience leading large-scale Agile software development efforts.
• Management skills, including resource planning, setting expectation levels, scheduling, mentoring, and prioritizing.
• Experience with scope management.

• Proven project management record of accomplishment of high-visibility, large-scale projects.
• Experience with project finances, including cost and schedule performance index.
• Excellent verbal and written communication of technical issues.
• Mastery of Microsoft Project.
• Strong background in e-business solutions or web system integration, especially in large-scale commerce.
• Integrity-driven to make and deliver achievable commitments.
• Oral communication, including customer interaction, requirements analysis, BPR, and training.
• Written communication experience with project work plans, SOWs, and executive briefings.
• Understanding of system design and development environments.
• Strong understanding or experience in best practice methodologies.
• High-level understanding of Oracle technologies.
• PMI PMP a plus.
• Familiarity with enterprise internet platforms a plus.
• Excellent English communication skills.

• A career with thought leaders who literally wrote the book on Marketplace Best Practices.
• A career in the fast-paced world of retail e-commerce, digital marketplaces, and platform businesses.
• A career with first-movers who are deploying new business models and strategies worldwide.
• A career in a flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• A career in a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, risk-taking, and teamwork.

Building a great company culture is a top priority for McFadyen Digital. We try to provide the best environment possible for team members - one that treats people the way they want to be treated. Culture Index is one of our tools for enhancing our enjoyable and productive people-focused environment. In order to be considered for this position, please follow this link to fill out a short Culture Index survey. Please use as many descriptors as possible that pertain to you. There are no right or wrong answers.

Our Core Values: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptable, Caring.

Keywords: PMP, PMBOK, Hybris, Magento, Mirakl, Oracle, Shopify, Scope management, Jira, e-commerce, remote work.

McFadyen's goal is to ensure that our clients are able to maximize the return on their technology investment by providing better service to their clients, partners, and internal teams. At McFadyen, we truly believe our employees are our most valuable asset. Across our locations in the US, Brazil, and India, we offer a world-class work culture that enables top-notch delivery for some of the world's most influential companies.

McFadyen Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law, where applicable.