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SalaryNeo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.
At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
About the role:
Using Agile Project Management methodology, the Project Director will be a hands-on leader who will successfully deliver Neo4j technology solutions to customers on time, on budget, aligned with project plans, customer expectations, and Neo4j values. This position reports directly to the Director of Professional Services for the Americas.
Responsibilities:
- Team Lead:
- Manage one or more project teams of 4+ consultants
- Continually raise the bar of the organization by practicing high standards and strong work ethics
- Build and Maintain Project Management Methodology:
- Establish and maintain a continually evolving Agile Project Delivery methodology, and championing its success
- Manage Project Scope, Time and Resources:
- Own end-to-end accountability for project delivery for assigned customer projects
- Work with PS management to drive the identification of skills, sourcing from partners, where appropriate, for successful project deliveries
- Work with PS management to anticipate and develop skill requirements to achieve delivery excellence
- Lead the development of program/project management artifacts such as detailed project plans, charters, risk assessments, Gantt charts, decision matrices, and other deliverables needed throughout the project
- Prepare for and perform applicable project close procedures (e.g., lessons learned, process improvement, transition to business operations)
- Mentor and develop junior Project Managers
- Ensure all time entries for assigned projects are current in PSA by the end of each week
- Drive performance against core KPIs that will be leveraged to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects, including project budget and schedule adherence, project margins, and customer satisfaction.
- Manage Project Financials and Budgets:
- Analyze and maintain aggregated project financial information working with PS management and corporate F&A.
- Monitor/analyze actuals against established project plans and budgets to identify variances and their causes, and communicate to applicable stakeholders, as appropriate
- Ensure adherence to established financial close procedures and governance guidelines
- Manage Project Communication:
- Ensure weekly delivery of an aggregated level status report, dashboard and scorecards that conveys health of all projects, such as (but not limited to): actual to plan, utilization, financial burn against budget, delivery velocity, risks and mitigations, and more.
- Responsible for sprint management, planning and demos
- Drive weekly meetings to review projects, assess and manage risks, anticipate and resolve bottlenecks and provide escalation management.
- Hold team members accountable for progress on key actions.
- Establish strong working relationships with matrix project teams
- Generate regular actionable metrics and reporting.
- Drive a zero-defect culture in project deliveries by identifying root causes of sub-standard project outcomes, and recommending and implementing appropriate resolutions
- Identify/prioritize potential risks/issues throughout the project life cycle, and develop appropriate contingency plans, applying established risk/issue analysis methods, techniques and tools (e.g., impact assessment, ranking and mitigation)
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
- Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
- Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM, Volvo Cars and many more.
- Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
- Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments)
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More information at www.neo4j.com.
