Location
Alpharetta, GA | United States
Job description
Job ID 24-652
Come Join Our Passionate Team! At Barracuda, we make the world a safer place. We believe every business deserves access to cloud-enabled, enterprise-grade security solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We protect email, networks, data and applications with innovative solutions that grow and adapt with our customers’ journey. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide trust Barracuda to protect them — in ways they may not even know they are at risk — so they can focus on taking their business to the next level.
We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.
Envision yourself at Barracuda
Within Barracuda, the Project Manager takes the lead in delivery management and oversight. The PM could be engaged in scrum administration, small projects, business process improvement or enterprise-wide projects. Assignments will vary based upon current needs in the portfolio, along with PMO capacity and the skills/strengths of the individual person.
The Project Manager may be working with Project Owners, Executive Sponsors, Product Managers, and other key resources. However, it is up to the Project Manager to effectively manage risks, issues, communications, planning, scheduling as well as to own the successful delivery of the project.
What you will be working on
- Facilitate large, complex project planning exercises and meetings across teams
- Monitor and report progress of large, complex projects
- Identify risks through cross-functional change management process
- Manage multiple pieces of work at any given time
- Coordinate groups of related projects, understanding and appropriately communicating the inter-dependencies and the resource constraints
- Understand and plan against project priorities across the Enterprise
- Assist in allocation and optimization of resources across the various projects
- Eliminate (or escalate) roadblocks as they arise
- Ensure owners, stakeholders and RACI are defined as appropriate
- Ensure project closure upon completion
- Coordinate, facilitate, document and manage meetings
Project documents
At any point in time, a project stakeholder or leadership should be able to check the project page and see fully up to date project deliverables.
Every project should create and maintain (at a minimum), the components of the project wiki template.
- Create program status reports and other communication plan outcomes
- Ensure that all project meetings/discussions/outcomes/decisions are being thoroughly and clearly documented.
- Share meeting notes, recordings, updated documents and plans within 48 hours of the meeting.
- Updates may be shared informally in Slack or email but that doesn’t replace the requirement to update the project Wiki.
- The PM should have the ability to create and maintain a detailed project schedule, including tasks, dependencies, resource allocations and lag/lead
What you bring to the role
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- The ability to promote constructive relationships with communication and collaboration across organizational levels and geographic locations
- Excellent problem-solving skills, including leading problem solving teams
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organization and prioritization skills
- Emotional intelligence in a professional context
- Takes ownership of their own productivity and ensure it is aligned with team objectives
- Serve as an influencer within the teams, without direct authority over them
Tools and frameworks
These tools and frameworks are used through the organization.For new hires, experience in these areas is strongly encouraged.Current team members expected to demonstrate proficiency and should work with their managers as needed for learning and development.
- Atlassian suite
- OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
- Smart Sheet
- Slack
- Agile frameworks
Work experience and certifications
New hires should meet or exceed these experience requirements.Degree/experience may be adjusted at the discretion of the hiring manager.
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 5 years and a Master’s degree
- 5+ years of progressive experience in managing complex projects/programs
- Prior experience in SaaS environment preferred
- PMP preferred
- CSM preferred
Considerations for this role:
- The position will not manage resources immediately, but may do so in the future, based on PMO team growth
- All members of the PMO team are expected to contribute to the PMO knowledge base.This may be in the form of wiki content, processes, templates, etc.
- All members of the PMO are expected to coach and mentor; both within the PMO team and throughout the CIO organization.This may take the form of one-on-one sessions, working groups, training materials and similar content.
- Team members are expected to represent the PMO professionally, positively and collaboratively.
- Depending on the project, some PM roles are expected to manage vendor relationships.
- This would include identifying potential partners, identifying partner strategies, assisting with selection of partners and contract management.
- Once the project is initiating, PMs will collaborate with partners and working to identify a collaboration strategy, and working with partners to ensure the outcomes from signed contracts.
What you’ll get from us
A team where you can voice your opinion, make an impact, and where you and your experience are valued. Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda.
- Equity, in the form of non-qualifying options
- High-quality health benefits
- Retirement Plan with employer match
- Career-growth opportunities
- Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
- Volunteer opportunities
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