Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SAS is a leader in data and AI software and services that helps customers transform data into intelligence. The R&D Project Manager will support SAS9 Foundation products and solutions by planning, coordinating, implementing, executing, and completing projects while aligning with divisional strategy, commitments, and goals.
Responsibilities
- Support R&D Engineering teams in completing deadline-driven, team-based projects
- Facilitate overall project objectives, goals and project requirements
- Work with teams and stakeholders to define project scope and goals
- Plan, prioritize, implement and adjust delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual project requirements per consultation with project stakeholders
- Maintain project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports
- Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage competing priorities
- Coordinate risk mitigation activity and escalate as appropriate
- Manage project scope and expectations
- Identify and constructively negotiate conflicts or areas of high risk
- Leverage fundamental project management methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery
- Identifies project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivery of final product
- Acts as central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Marketing and Technical Support, to ensure project success
- Works with management to identify resource needs and coordinate technical resources for assigned projects, including both domestic and international resources
- Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals
- Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 5 years of project management experience in software development
- Experience with R&D project management
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications
- Communication: Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others
- Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences
- Influencing: Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes
- Excellent competence in project management fundamentals
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent negotiation and organizational abilities
- Excellent decision-making ability
- Excellent risk management skills
- Strong strategic thinking skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Awareness of Agile methodologies yet adaptive to team needs
- To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
- The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge for employees not local to HQ.
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and the U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
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