Senior Project Manager

Company Introduction 

Our mission is the enablement of every organization and person with the technology to positively impact the health of planet Earth. Persefoni is creating an all-in-one platform that allows organizations to measure, analyze, and reduce their Enterprise Carbon Footprint. Our goal is to provide our customers unprecedented visibility and insights into the impact their organization has on the environment. Leveraging the latest breakthroughs in data science and software, our technology will empower teams and leaders to mobilize their organizations to continuously improve their greenhouse gas emissions metrics. 

Our Core Values 

Sustainability - We are committed to sustainable business practices across our entire operation and culture. We go beyond achieving balance. We are a net-positive contributor to the environment, our employee’s lives, and the global community. 

Impact - We are focused on and passionate about tackling the biggest and hardest problems that will have the greatest impact. We create significant, not incremental, solutions. 

Collaboration - We are always aligned in our goals and efforts to create the most impactful technologies possible. Constant cooperation across our company, customers, and partners is our standard mode of operating. 

Equality - We value and respect people and organizations of all backgrounds. Ours is a culture of innovation, creativity, diversity of thought, and inclusion. 

The Role 

As a Persefoni Senior Project Manager, you will be part of the team that leads efforts to capture and organize information throughout the course of product development. Our project managers are conduits for progress and aim to make a big impact yet should avoid superfluous activity or noise that doesn’t support the objectives of the project. Using established systems of project organization combined with an agile development methodology, you will be empowered to build efficiency and professionalism directly into all product activities and every product release.  

Our project managers are focused on information gathering, planning and execution, identifying and tracking dependencies, progress monitoring, and facilitating communication between product teams. The complexity of keeping various teams on track for a common goal is significant, and for that reason your communication abilities will be excellent. Your experience in software development project management will play a key part in being able to contribute to the conversations surrounding the development of the world’s premier carbon accounting platform. 

How You’ll Know You’re Successful 

• Within your first two weeks, you will have a basic understanding of the key objectives of the product, the roles of the teams that are building it, and where your contributions will be the most valuable. You’ll be leading agile ceremonies for your product team(s) and be polishing the team’s processes as needed. You will also recognize how we apply our culture code (i.e., operating principles) and be able to perpetuate it in your daily activities. 

• Within your first four weeks, you will be helping to further build out the PMO, including writing best practices, evaluating for gaps in current processes and recommending corrective action, and recommending ways to accelerate the product development process in general. 

• Within your first three months, you will be running weekly Scrum of Scrums for the various products within the platform, coordinating system updates with tech teams as needed, designing risk reduction methods, and be helping define goals for the product and project management teams. 

Responsibilities 

• Liaise between product team, business teams and engineering teams. 

• Define and maintain project spaces. 

• Run daily standups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and grooming sessions, product checkins, and/or weekly review meetings; track and follow up on non-dev tasks and other action items. 

• Build out Jira project/s and collaborate with Product Owner to groom the growing backlog. 

• Enhance project management practices, generate ideas for new/improved PM playbook 

• Serve as gatekeeper for new team member onboarding, as it relates to the project. 

• Identify and manage intra- and inter-team dependencies. 

• Support Operations as necessary. 

• Provide updates to Director of Project Management (DPM) about project status as requested, and make staffing requests via DPM as needed. 

Skills and Qualifications 

• Minimum 5 years software project management experience 

• Three years experience with Jira or other issue tracking software 

• Expert grasp of agile methodologies  

• Demonstrated mastery of the SDLC and preparedness to coach in it 

• Ability to write, improve, and enforce successful processes  

• Exceptional responsiveness in a fast moving, often pivoting work environment 

Interview Process 

• Step 1: Initial candidate screening call 

• Step 2: Interview with our Director of Project Management 

• Step 3: Interview with our Product Owner/co-founder 

• Step 4: Offer extended 

• Step 5: Background check and onboarding 

Benefits 

• PTO 
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance 
• Disability, Life Insurance 
• Equity Incentive Plan 
• Work from Home Flexibility

Persefoni is an Equal Opportunity employer

One of our company Core Values is 'Equality' which emphasizes our commitment to value and respect people and organizations of all backgrounds. We proudly bring this to life by fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, diversity of thought, and inclusion.

We strive for each of our team members to be able to show up for work every day as their genuine selves. Similar to the reverence given to Earth’s biodiversity, we recognize the vast potential that exists when all of the facets of diversity within our team are appreciated and illuminated. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices.

As you are considering us as a potential employer, it's important to ensure you are aware we currently have a COVID-19 vaccination policy in place for all U.S. employees.

The key tenets of our policy are:

• Fully remote employees, those who are not doing any travel and do not have any in-person interactions related to their work, are not required to be vaccinated.
• Employees who travel on behalf of Persefoni and/or have in-person interactions related to their work, are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted.
• All employees, regardless of vaccination status, are required to inform us of whether they are fully vaccinated or not.
• We provide the opportunity for employees to request special exceptions to the policy for medical, religious, and other reasons