Project Manager, Training & Certification
The Linux Foundation
- Remote, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
03:00pm-11:00pm (GMT) / 08:00am-4:00pm (PST).The successful candidate must be willing to shift schedules as needed, to deal with the practical challenges presented by working with colleagues across global time zones.QualificationsThe Project Manager's primary responsibilities are as follows:
- Helps clarify project goals early on and facilitates the creation of a robust project plan
- Ensure adherence to the best practices and use of standardized tooling (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
- Defines scope, resources, and schedule based on high-level objectives and milestones
- Facilitates ongoing communication between team members to ensure alignment and understanding of who should be doing what, by when, and why
- Identifies resource gaps and surfaces for decision
- Implements Agile practices across the team (defining epics, stories)
- Drives project success: managing the backlog and ensuring quality and productive meetings
- Conduct post-mortems to identify opportunities to improve
- Regularly communicates status to stakeholders
- Passionate about delivering results
- Collaborative: works effectively with others and keeps an eye on the overall goals of the Foundation
- Positive: happy to face a challenge and marshall resources toward a goal
- Responsiveness: values being responsive to others' requests, especially members
- Efficiency: able to move projects from start to complete
- Communication: proactive communicator who understands where she/he needs to facilitate communication
- Conscientious: keeps meticulous records and always follows up to ensure tasks don't get dropped
- Trustworthy: Ability to work closely with a team and earn and keep his/her trust
- Astute: Uses sound judgment to make decisions that improve revenue or reduce costs
- Quality: Focuses on creating quality in everything he/she does: plans, written communication
- Strategic: always on the lookout for new opportunities to make the LF better