Senior Project Lead (Contract)

Key Responsibilities:

• Presales, Resourcing, and Sales 
• Identify and elevate needs for new or changed resourcing of new projects.
• Perform scope and requirements analysis, participate in SOW authoring. 
• Contribute to and help manage SOW redlines, driving to close with SDLs. 
• Partner with account teams, helping to ensure they have the information they need to be successful and aware of project delivery progress. 
• Assist with back-end project preparation and execution administration both independently and under the direction of senior leaders. 


• Run Project Execution
• Initiate project work with team members ensuring they are set for success internally and externally. Create kickoff materials and play a leading role in kickoff ceremonies and activities. 
• Create and manage to project plans, communicate plans to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Manage customer expectations on project dates, timelines accordingly. 
• Partner with customer teams, partners, and project leadership. 
• Take meeting minutes (with team collaboration), run meetings. 
• Create project status reports, reviewing with internal teams and partnering with Delivery Leads to deliver to Customers. 
• Manage the day to day project ensuring the Egen team is delivering against expectations, identify and escalate changes in scope and impediments. Manage projects using our project tracking systems. 
• As needed, research and prepare change request requirements and impact. Participate in creating change requests and managing through to signature. 
• Run agile or similar ceremonies, using both best practice and creativity to meet the customer and project where it is and where it needs to be. 
• Manage project work, sprint/kanban work through tools, learning as needed for a given Customer environment. 
• Identify and escalate risks and issues proactively. 
• Think creatively about new and innovative improvements to existing processes but you know when to back off.


• Manage Internal Team Communications 
• Clearly articulate scope and expectations to Egen team members, making sure their roles are clear and they are set up for success. 
• Partner effectively with other teams engaged, treating the customer as an equal and actively coaching others to avoid common consulting behavior. 
• Look for ways to innovate and use new tools, your own thinking and tool chest to improve how projects are run. Have the foresight to build for a client with an eye to building for future reuse. 
• Regularly check in and manage the team. Keep a regular cadence of internal strategy and syncs.


• Agile Player / Coach
• Be a knowledgeable source for agile practices and philosophies. 
• Demonstrate by example, leading customer and partner teams through practices. 
• Use past experience and knowledge to apply the right agility to the job. 
• Think creatively, recommending process improvements aligned to Egen’s brand. 
• As needed, jump in hands on to write user stories, manage backlogs, clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, and all the things needed to ensure developers can produce effectively and efficiently. 
• Know the difference and when to partner with your team over “manage” them.


• Partner with the Customer
• Build relationships, partnering with and advocating for your Clients. Keep a regular cadence of discussions and progress updates. 
• Manage communication with stakeholders of multiple levels, primarily peer project managers and team members below.

About You:

• 3-5 years of experience in managing medium to large-scale projects with experience managing project teams of various sizes, locations, and skillsets/ levels. 
• Experience in professional services or client delivery; this is a client facing role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a technology-related field.
• Recommended experience working within product companies and consultancies. 
• You think and work systematically and logically, backed up by technical skills, methodological problem solving, and practical thinking. 
• You are a clear communicator both verbally and in writing. You know how to convey information through illustration, words, or diagram/workflow. 
• Trained in project management and agile disciplines required either self taught or formal. 
• You may have a background in engineering, software architecture, or delivery. Priority certification as a scrum master. Potentially also helpful trainings may also include other project management certifications (PMI, PMP…). 
• You generally are process oriented and like to reduce the chaos, find satisfaction in organizing people, activities, and delivery. 
• You are a learner, proactive, and generally strive to to do more.


• Other Relevant Details 
• Desired location is the Eastern United States.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% and potentially timeshift to accommodate project needs.