Project Manager
Are you a passionate and proactive Project Manager with experience in Software Implementation? Do you like planning, organizing, allocating resources and budgeting? Are you tired of merely “working” for a living and ready to have “fun” doing what you do best? If so, then let’s talk!
Luminos Labs, a full-service digital agency specializing in eCommerce and Microsoft Technology Stack solutions, is at the forefront of a rapidly growing eCommerce industry. We’re on a mission to help businesses succeed through world-class eCommerce websites.
Primary Responsibilities
The project manager ensures team members have what they need to complete projects successfully, clients are receiving value, and the team has a shared vision of project success.
The project manager leads one or more digital commerce projects. They are proactive, results-driven and value focused. They are comfortable working with technical team members. They have a proven track record of delivering high-end digital commerce solutions, to happy clients, with happy teams, on scope, on time, and within budget. And they have recognized experience working in agile and traditional project environments for more than two years.
Detailed Responsibilities:
Team Service:
- Create an environment that is team oriented, supportive, quality-driven and focused on delivering value.
- Serve as a role model for open and honest communication, positivity, motivation, engagement, professionalism, and fun.
- Ensure that all items needed for a team to complete their work are in place and ready for them before they start each task.
- Proactively check in with the team to find out their needs and help achieve them.
- Continually work with team members to manage perceptions, and ensure they have the shared perception of the scope, timeline, and work being completed.
- Work with the team to develop workable plans for scope, budget, and timeline.
Client Service
- Work with the Client on a regular basis on deliverable definition, timeline, budget, scope, blockers and risks.
- Share items that need customer answers and review them to obtain answers and approval for the team.
- Be client oriented and ensure that the level of satisfaction is high.
Planning
- Facilitate sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, and other client and internal meetings, as needed.
- Plan all meetings, by setting goals and agenda, scheduling meetings, recording major decisions and action items, and ensuring action items are completed.
- Manage all delivery team resource allocation activities, including allocating per estimates, completing resource allocation processes, and communicating to teams their resource assignments.
Management
- Setup, manage and ensure the usage of the core project management team tools, templates and techniques in Luminos Agile, Jira, Confluence, Mavenlink, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.
- Proactively ensure that project stays within agreed-upon scope. Work with the team-members to set feature priorities within budget and estimate.
- As changes are identified work with the Client on the change order.
- Track budget expenditure, Team Velocity, and Version Timeline progress on a weekly basis, and report to all affected parties.
- Continuously track and work to eliminate project blockers and report to all affected parties.
- Continuously measure, and work to mitigate project risks and report to all affected parties.
- Successfully manages multiple projects as assigned.
- Fast moving forward approach in resolving project related issues.
General competencies:
Technical/ Functional Overview
- Technical / Functional Knowledge
- Industry Knowledge
- Role in the Team/ Organization/ Client/ External Environment
Personal Leadership
- Influence and how decisions are made with the Client
- Able to provide or present technical solutions to the client
- Proactive attitude
- Helpful, positive, and constructive attitude
- Problem solving and solutions finding
- High level of autonomy with the ability to make decisions and solve problems collaboratively
- Team player, strong relationship builder, and motivator
- Ability to handle a fast-paced environment
Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience as a Project Manager
- Experience with Agile methodologies
Other qualifications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Organized and detail oriented, with exceptional follow-through
- Entrepreneurial, energetic, and fun
- Experience delivering eCommerce projects
About us
At Luminos Labs we design, build, and implement digital commerce solutions for B2B and direct-to-consumer brands, retailers, and enterprise businesses by collaborating with industry leading digital and eCommerce technology partners. Founded in 2010, we have over seventy employees in our US and EU offices. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an EPiServer Premium Partner, we specialize in the development of fully integrated custom platforms that provide our clients with scalable, customer‐centric commerce, CMS, and custom .NET solutions.