Software Project Manager

2024-04-28
Canada
Marketcircle
Marketcircle is a certified Great Place to Work that develops the award-winning business app - Daylite, exclusively built for the Apple ecosystem, used and loved by thousands of businesses in 80+ countries.

Our mission is to empower small businesses owners to manage their business effectively, efficiently and accurately by spending less time on it and more time on what they love.

We foster a workplace culture where our core values of creativity, ownership, kaizen, empathy, and teamwork come together to create an exceptional environment.

Join our growing team!

Marketcircle is looking for a Project manager for a 10-month mat leave contract role. This role's main responsibility is to ensure an effective and efficient Software Development Life Cycle by creating and maintaining a project plans, and managing deliverables. As an integral part of our team, you will enable us to deliver high quality products on time. The Project Manager will work closely with stakeholders across the organization to ensure organizational projects are delivered on time (including those outside of software development).

Responsibilities:

Ability to utilize project management platforms to create and track projects, tasks, key dates and phases from Kickoff to Deployment
Collaborate with technical resources on the team for key requirements and development timelines
Align project timelines with scope of work and formalize change management by working with both Development and Operations teams
Manage and host weekly project review meetings, daily status update huddles, project kickoffs and retrospectives where required
Track and manage project content pages and create new ones where needed for seamless knowledge transfer
Identify projects that are at risk and host meetings to make decisions with leadership and strategy team members as needed
Work with managers to coordinate project checkpoints, track weekly meeting minutes and ensure that all action items have been responded to
Act as a central point of contact for all project stakeholders and communicate project status
Attend third-party contractor calls as needed
Track and communicate key action items for the CTO regarding weekly communications with the development managers


Qualifications:

3+ years Project Management experience
Experience working with Software Development Life Cycle is required.
Familiarity with project management best practices, such as the PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is required.
SaaS experience a plus.


Soft Skills:

Strong Communication - will need the ability to speak, listen and write in a clear, thorough and timely manner
Ability to work with department heads cross functionally
A multi-tasker with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, both independently and as a team
Ability to formulate and prioritize action items to achieve desired project goals
Experience with Confluence or Github an asset