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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Management
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2007-04-23
Project Manager III
Job Description
The Engineering Project Manager is a very hands-on technical management
position with high visibility and large levels of responsibility. The PM is
responsible for performing end-to-end cross-discipline leadership throughout
the software development lifecycle. Accountable for on-time, on-budget, high
quality software project deliveries, the PM manages the entire project,
including Analysis, Development and Quality Assurance. The PM also oversees
dependencies and handoffs between Engineering, Product Management and
Operations. The projects that the PM manages are large scale with significant
tactical or strategic impacts for VeriSign.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Leverage project team resources to provide level of effort estimates
- Identify, mitigate, and prioritize, manage and resolve project issues,
constraints, dependencies and risks
- Create and manage overall project plan
- Define and manage to critical success factors
- Develop and monitor project budget versus actual expenses
- Institute a change control process and chair the Change Control Board
- Communicate status and issues to senior management and project stakeholders
- Coordinate cross-org team, proactively ensuring that teams are 'in sync' in
terms of communication, schedules, issues, etc.
- Facilitate decision making with stakeholders, balancing the needs of
different constituencies and facilitating consensus.
- Champion and key contributor of continuous improvement of PM best practices,
using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness of organization.
- Managing mostly high projects in terms of complexity, risk, and/or business
criticality while managing multiple projects at a given time, juggling
activities and priorities accordingly.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or a related
discipline
- At least ten years of progressively responsible experience on large scale
software development projects, preferably in a commercial software development
environment
- At least three years of experience directly managing software projects of
significant scale and complexity including multiple sub-teams, financial
project management, and cross-divisional staff involvement
- At least two years of experience with highly available back-end transaction
intensive OLTP type systems and API interfaces
- Basic understanding of J2EE technologies and distributed architectures
CONTACT
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VeriSign, Inc.
Priti Beri
pberi@verisign.com
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