Principal Technical Product Manager

Description

• Provides creative and innovative approaches to meet work plan objectives.
• Recording, tracking and communicating issues, risks, changes, and status reports within a PG&E standard tool
• Responsible for leading a group of Project Managers on a particular task; this leadership role will include mentoring, training, direction and oversight of their assigned responsibilities.
• Driving all project related tasks to completion
• Clearly defining and communicating roles, responsibilities and expectations for all members of the project team
• Preparing all project documentation for closure, storage, and possible auditing activities, ensuring technical accuracy
• May lead a team of 1 – 2 employees
• Monitoring critical project milestones, and identifying ways to resolve schedule issues
• Conducting project kick-off meetings
• Communicating individual project roles and expectations
• Obtaining and defining staffing requirements and forming project teams
• Assessing project performance and implementing changes as necessary to ensure the projects remains within specified cost, schedule, scope and quality objectives
• Communicating status of all projects to stakeholders and management
• Developing metrics, procedures, objectives and methods to assess project progress while using established standards and quality objectives
• Independently planning all associated work to meet project goals
• Seeks guidance only on critical and politically sensitive issues.
• Gathering, defining and documenting project requirements
• Resolving problems of project specific scope within procedural guidelines
• Coordinating any required contract work within defined PG&E policy
• Collaborates with others to develop goals that will achieve company strategy.
• Conducting site visits as necessary
• Accurately and consistently forecasting project resource, material and contract costs within a standard PG&E tool(s)
• Completion of project artifact audits on time
• Developing and Maintaining up-to-date detailed project schedules and work plans
• Providing direction and leadership to project management analysts and schedulers
• Responsible for leading one or more projects typically between $1,000,000 - $50,000,000
• Ensuring all project team members have the tools and training necessary to perform effectively
• Developing and maintaining a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors and key clients

Requirements

• Exercising independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance with moderate scope and complexity
• Experience with IT professional service agreements and materials logistics
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute
• 10+ years of demonstrated IT project management experience including managing one or more large complex IT product/software development cycles/projects
• Experience in PMO-Program Management Office development
• Leadership experience, job-related, 5 years
• Graduate Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance