Senior Project Manager

Elevations Credit Union • Broomfield, CO

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for establishing and leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives of high complexity including launching new products and services, large-scale application development, systems integration, business process optimization projects, operational efficiency improvements, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments. This individual utilizes in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of project management frameworks including waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc. and can adapt practices to the situation. The Senior Project Manager provides direction and coaching to delivery team members to improve project management processes at Elevations CU and to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet or exceed leadership expectations. Elevations Credit Union is a member-owned not-for-profit financial institution serving Colorado’s Front Range. Founded in 1952, we’ve grown from 12 members and less than $100 in assets to an institution with 15 branches and more than 170,000 members that manages over $3 billion in assets and is the No. 1 credit union mortgage lender in Colorado. At Elevations, we’ve made a commitment to move away from a product-centered business model and focus instead on creating consumer solutions. Our objective is to provide our members, as well as the entire community, with unbiased consumer information.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years as Project Manager managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience delivering under multiple project management frameworks including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe
• Experience planning and executing business and IT Projects through the full software development lifecycle
• Impeccable attention to detail and highly organized
• Excellent communication skills, collaborative, solution-oriented, and ability to foster effective working relationships with internal and external parties
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner certification
• CSM, CSPO or related certification
• Experience functioning in a Scrum Master capacity
• Experience supporting information technology (IT) teams with infrastructure, networking, information security, core and, full stack development projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact and trusted advisor for organizational product owners in managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget.
• Establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives. Work with delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure vision, roadmap, and personas are well-defined and understood.
• Responsible for the successful estimation, planning, execution, and implementation of projects and programs including identification and management of deliverables, dependencies, risks, financials, and timeline with stakeholders and third-party vendors.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule and budget using appropriate techniques and tools.
• Work with organizational product owners to complete refinement and manage the product backlog. Fully understand the content and priorities of the backlog.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Manage subcontractors and third-party vendors according to defined scope and statement of work.
• Support resource and capacity management to ensure effective resource utilization across teams.
• Responsible for developing and providing relevant metrics to help the delivery team see how they are doing and report team progress as part of the organizational project portfolio.
• Accountable for communicating and reporting on project and project status on a regular basis through a formally defined and agreed upon process of gates, stages or phases. Customize communication approach based on technical level of project stakeholders as necessary.
• Work creatively and analytically to problem-solve demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Provide input to EPMO in improving project management and Agile processes.
• Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.
• Improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
• Train, mentor, and coach others in the use of project management. Waterfall and Agile/scrum tools and techniques.
• Demonstrate learning agility by continuing to develop skillset and grow professionally by learning new tools and techniques.

Benefits

• A competitive total rewards package with 4 weeks paid time off for full-time employees, work anniversary paid time off, paid volunteer time off, and 12 paid holidays
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employer contributions to supercharge your Health Savings Account
• Up to a 4% match on 401(k) contributions
• Up to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Program that provides personalized care options for your whole household
• Ample opportunity to learn, develop and grow with access to LinkedIn Learning, career and leadership development programs, job shadowing, a mentor program, and tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior