Senior Project Manager

**About Liferay**

Liferay, Inc. is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.

But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run

**About You and this Role**

Do you enjoy learning about how to guide teams to become the best possible? Do you have experience adapting agile or lean ideas to what a team needs at a specific moment in time? Is communication one of your strengths and you enjoy working in international projects? Do you like digging deep on issues the team might be facing regarding its delivery to find their root causes? Are you motivated and excited to work in a diverse and distributed team?

As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our projects. You need to ensure that the project will be delivered in time therefore you need to be our single point of contact for project accountability, planning, communication.

**Key Objectives**
- Successful delivery of projects based on scope, schedule, and budget
- Work with project teams to handle project escalation issues, facilitate discussion, and conflict resolution
- Help high-performance teams and individuals to track through progress and clear any project roadblocks following Liferay’s Services methodology for delivery
- Able to organize and lead client discoveries in collaboration with internal and external client relationship managers & key stakeholders
- Define, gather and analyze client requirements
- Release planning and coordination within project teams
- Proactively communicate a clear picture to team members of what project success looks like, and work with client leadership to build a comprehensive plan to get there
- Ability to be flexible on changing project priorities and help the team identify crucial milestones for delivery
- Effectively manage project risks and issues, tracking status and resolutions to help the project stay on course to achieve targeted outcomes
- Managing scope and change control through project phases, stages and milestones
- Participates in strategy and requirements gathering for project estimation
- Prepare for and actively communicate project progress and potential issues in client meetings
- Able to multi-task and parallelize priorities on a combination of internal and client projects
- Effectively Manage and Mentor other Mid-level Project Manager and Associate Project Manager.

**Required Qualifications**
- Intermediate Agile Project Management Experience with the ability to work on cross functional, distributed teams
- Analytical thinking and problem solving skills
- Excellent prioritization, organization, and time management skills and ability to work with mínimal supervision
- Advanced communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate complex business solution concepts clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences
- English proficiency

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Knowledge of Software development concepts
- Spanish Speaker (Intermediate level at least)
- PMP Certification.

**What We Offer**
- Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience
- Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
- A positive and collaborative work culture
- Check out what employees say about us on Glassdoor
- Working at a leading open-source company

**Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement