Technical Project Manager
Department: Business Operations
Reports To: Senior Manager of Technical Projects
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Classification: Full-Time
As a Technical Project Manager at Rackspace Email and Apps, you play a vital role by guiding teams from initiation through planning and execution. Utilizing agile methodologies, you help your teams to maximize their productivity, enabling them to meet project objectives and deliver truly stellar products.
As a master of organization and multi-tasking, your skills extend beyond project management to find new ways to make great teams even better. You're a Technical Project Manager for the world's best company (at least, we think so) and your leadership, experience, knowledge and enthusiasm help us set challenging goals and exceed them.
How do you match up?
Your responsibilities to the customers (the people who pay us the big bucks) include:
- Being fanatical in everything we do
- Building and keeping our customers’ trust through your dedication to ethics, values and service
Important Skills and Characteristics:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), or Computer Science (CS)
- At least 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading teams in software development using agile or similar project management methodologies
- 2+ years of hands-on technical experience such as programming, systems administration, hardware/software, networking or DBA experience preferred
- Demonstrable experience working with Leadership Teams, gaining consensus, managing expectations and shaping processes to lead projects through all stages of the software development life cycle
- Ability to meet deadlines while responding well to project scope changes and resource constraints
- Ability to foster team engagement, build trust, increase team ownership and provide visibility into team’s work
- Strong time management and organization skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with great leadership skills, diplomacy, confidence, a customer-driven focus and a positive attitude
You're going to do just fine here if:
- You’re looking for an opportunity to provide project leadership within a technical environment
- You are a respectful, articulate, positive employee who truly believes that serving the needs of our customers and fellow Rackers is the way in which our company is going to set itself apart from our competitors
- You are passionate about keeping teams on track, removing barriers to success and embracing change for excellence
- You have a strong positive outlook and have been searching for the opportunity to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment where your talents will be recognized, strengths utilized and skills sharpened
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.
Rackspace is an EOE employer.
