The Position: 

Do you dream about creating a more sustainable future? At Uplight, we are motivating energy users and providers to accelerate the clean energy ecosystem. Working with over 90 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, Uplight provides an end-to-end customer energy experience. Uplight delivers personalized experiences that customers have now come to expect–improving satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing the cost to serve, and contributing to carbon reduction goals. We are B Corp certified,  enabling us to put our values into action by not only making decisions for the benefit of our shareholders, but also for our customers, environment, employees, and community.

We are seeking a Project Manager to join our team to lead our E-commerce Systems Project, and help us achieve our ambitious goals for our business and the planet.

What you get to do:

• Manage overall project timeline, deliverables, communication, and coordination of activities to execute the project plan 
• Facilitate identification and support detailed documentation of requirements across various cross-functional stakeholders for each workstream of the project
• Own the grooming of requirements to ensure clarity of impact, expected outcome, acceptance criteria, and user testing 
• Lead cross-functional project team through problem solving, prioritization of resource investments, trade-off decisions, and ensure consistent alignment of expectations
• Solve issues by utilizing analytical and problem-solving skills and working with other team members.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and mitigate risks 
• Proactively identify and coordinate cross workstream dependencies, and manage workstream plans to ensure timely delivery against plan
• Support workstream leads with prioritization, representing the perspective of the entire project as a whole
• Support engineering delivery leads with data gathering to inform level of effort estimates
• Create functional and technical process maps to facilitate internal and external comprehension of how Marketplace e-commerce works
• Ensure training requirements are identified, planned, and delivered where necessary
• Effectively communicate with other individuals or groups both written and verbally.
• Learn new technologies and other skills with limited assistance or no assistance as available.
• Present updates and deliverables in front of Executive Leadership
• Success is measured by on-time, high quality delivery of the following workstreams: Upsuite, Fulfillment Service, Order Management System, and Reporting Service

Skills and experience are necessary, but we hire on value alignment first, so if you feel you would be a good fit with us, still consider applying.

What you will contribute: 

The Project Manager will be responsible for the success of the E-commerce Systems Project which includes cross-functional readiness and execution to meet and exceed the project plan. The E-commerce Systems Project focuses on driving increased quality and scalability of our e-commerce platform, while also creating operational cost efficiencies. This will be the first project within the scope of this role; however, the expectation is that the Project Manager will move on to lead future projects within the company thereafter.

What you bring to Uplight:

• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills
• Ability to lead daily operational activities such as facilitation, problem solving, developing project and operational plans, communications, and recommending/developing processes and procedures.
• Exceptional organization, detail orientation, and multitasking skills
• Proven ability to ensure on-time completion of task deliverables and activities.
• Ability to own and drive a complex project with multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Strong end-user orientation and presence in front of senior management
• Proficiency with process mapping and improvement
• Ability to bring together cross-functional teams to execute collaboratively
• Willingness to act in ambiguity 
• Strong work ethic and ability to self-manage and take initiative
• 5+ years of consulting experience preferred
• Previous ERP implementation or migration
• Accounting/Finance/Supply Chain functional experience preferred
• Familiarity with e-commerce software and operations preferred
• Experience with NetSuite and Salesforce Commerce Cloud preferred

Salary Range: $100,000 to $115,000

Uplight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.