PROJECT MANAGER - NYC - FINTECH - salary up to 200K depending on experience

Adaptive Financial Consulting•New York, NY

3h•$160,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage. Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Barcelona, London, Manila, Montreal and New York, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a PM to join our NYC team to help build and shape a new, Adaptive owned, product suite that will be instrumental to the future of the company's product strategy! Our Project Managers at Adaptive are leaders who set an example for Adaptive’s culture and values. Most importantly, our Project Managers give the teams the autonomy they require in their role to be motivated and grow professionally. If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role! YOU ARE: A strategic thinker with great communication skills A great relationship builder with your team and clients A problem-solver and team player AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT: The project that you are overseeing is executed as planned, on time and on budget Stakeholders are engaged and informed, and ultimately satisfied The team has a clear understanding of the project goals and their place within the team, and are empowered to deliver on our commitments YOU WILL: Manage the project: - Understand the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy based on personal experience - Tailor and manage processes in accordance with the team structure and circumstances (different engagement models such as T&M or fixed price, variable team size, geographical spread and engagement length…) - Work collaboratively with our clients and internal stakeholders to identify and document scope as well as building and maintaining delivery plans - Provide accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against a plan i.e burndown - Actively manage and mitigate project risk Manage a product: - Maintain a product roadmap, balancing requirements from multiple stakeholders - Coordinate with Adaptive teams using the product - Oversee production & maintenance of technical documentation and marketing materials - Share knowledge with the Adaptive Support team Manage a team: - Promote a Servant Leader mindset, empower highly-skilled team members to deliver their best and involve them in decision making - Identify and drive the resolution of problems affecting team harmony and performance - Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team: ~ Developers: real-time programming, high availability ~ QA: TDD, BDD, acceptance criteria ~ UX: visual design ~ BA: backlog management, domain knowledge (exchanges, real-time trading, investment banking) ~ DevOps ~ Support - Work with distributed teams (Barcelona/London/Manila/Montreal/New York) Manage people: - Regularly lend an ear to your team members and listen to what they have to say about their job satisfaction, their aspirations... in the spirit of Adaptive’s staff management style: informal and collegiate - Liaise with directors/HR to report relevant information (ex: career plan development, a personal event requiring support from the team/company…) - Take part in the probation process for new members of staff if appropriate Manage resourcing: - Own, or support the resourcing plan for the project or programme - Review proposed resourcing model with Delivery leadership, and maintain resource forecast in Kantata (time management system) - Identify gaps in the team, and engage with the delivery leadership team to recruit new hires accordingly - Participate in hiring of PM peers Manage client & stakeholders: - Provide regular project status reporting to relevant stakeholders as necessary - Use effective and transparent communication - Actively manage the stakeholder expectations, make assumptions explicit and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement - Liaise with the Account Manager to define & implement the communication plan Report to Adaptive: - Report project status on a weekly basis - Escalate issues to the respective Engagement and/or Account Manager Commercial & Legal: - Understand the legal framework for the engagement - Ensure that both Adaptive and the client meet their contractual obligations - Escalate issues where breaches of obligations occur or are at a risk of occurring Finance: - Own, or support, delivery of the target revenue and margin for Adaptive - Where necessary, control budget and actuals; forecast revenue & costs - Manage costs (resources, expenses, licenses, vendors) - Manage expenses in line with agreement Capturing and sharing knowledge: - Identify IP to be captured for Adaptive (code, process, functional knowledge) - Liaise with CTO and head of Project Execution to agree on the plan to capture IP (how and when to capture it, how to share it)

Requirements

A strategic thinker with great communication skills
A great relationship builder with your team and clients
A problem-solver and team player
Understand the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy based on personal experience
Tailor and manage processes in accordance with the team structure and circumstances (different engagement models such as T&M or fixed price, variable team size, geographical spread and engagement length…)
Work collaboratively with our clients and internal stakeholders to identify and document scope as well as building and maintaining delivery plans
Provide accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against a plan i.e burndown
Actively manage and mitigate project risk
Maintain a product roadmap, balancing requirements from multiple stakeholders
Coordinate with Adaptive teams using the product
Oversee production & maintenance of technical documentation and marketing materials
Share knowledge with the Adaptive Support team
Promote a Servant Leader mindset, empower highly-skilled team members to deliver their best and involve them in decision making
Identify and drive the resolution of problems affecting team harmony and performance
Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team
Work with distributed teams (Barcelona/London/Manila/Montreal/New York)
Regularly lend an ear to your team members and listen to what they have to say about their job satisfaction, their aspirations... in the spirit of Adaptive’s staff management style: informal and collegiate
Liaise with directors/HR to report relevant information (ex: career plan development, a personal event requiring support from the team/company…)
Take part in the probation process for new members of staff if appropriate
Own, or support the resourcing plan for the project or programme
Review proposed resourcing model with Delivery leadership, and maintain resource forecast in Kantata (time management system)
Identify gaps in the team, and engage with the delivery leadership team to recruit new hires accordingly
Participate in hiring of PM peers
Provide regular project status reporting to relevant stakeholders as necessary
Use effective and transparent communication
Actively manage the stakeholder expectations, make assumptions explicit and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement
Liaise with the Account Manager to define & implement the communication plan
Report project status on a weekly basis
Escalate issues to the respective Engagement and/or Account Manager
Understand the legal framework for the engagement
Ensure that both Adaptive and the client meet their contractual obligations
Escalate issues where breaches of obligations occur or are at a risk of occurring
Own, or support, delivery of the target revenue and margin for Adaptive
Where necessary, control budget and actuals; forecast revenue & costs
Manage costs (resources, expenses, licenses, vendors)
Manage expenses in line with agreement
Identify IP to be captured for Adaptive (code, process, functional knowledge)
Liaise with CTO and head of Project Execution to agree on the plan to capture IP (how and when to capture it, how to share it)

Responsibilities

The project that you are overseeing is executed as planned, on time and on budget
Stakeholders are engaged and informed, and ultimately satisfied
The team has a clear understanding of the project goals and their place within the team, and are empowered to deliver on our commitments
Manage the project
Manage a product
Manage a team
Manage people
Manage resourcing
Manage client & stakeholders
Report to Adaptive
Commercial & Legal
Finance
Capturing and sharing knowledge

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model
Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs.
Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from. We make fixed contributions to each.
23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays
Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and taxable)
401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis (you can opt-in after 90 days of service)
Gym subsidy of up to $50 per month (and we pay the taxes on that so it's a real $50) post probation.
Life insurance at 2 x salary
Commuter benefits
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account