Project Manager

Position: Project Manager

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Day-1 Onsite)

Duration: Long term Contract

Client: Tech Mahindra / APPLE

Responsibilities:

• Establish and managing Litify -legal software project timelines and ensure project milestones and deadlines are met by communicating with all parties involved
• Ensuring Liitfy projects align with business goals
• Liason between departments within the organization to ensure projects are completed successfully
• Provide both verbal and written communications regarding project status, risks, and issues, and makes recommendations on project decisions to PMO and Senior Management.
• Responsible for the Liitfy program and project management methodology
• Accountable for Liitfy project health checks and creating reports for senior managers and stakeholders
• Monitor project performance for projects/programs within PMO responsibility
• Ensure project management artifacts are appropriately signed and entered applicable repositories
• Develops a comprehensive Risk Management Plan at the Liitfy project/program Level.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities of business and technical plans; identify Risk Mitigation Strategies and Contingency Plans for all identified
• Risks. Maintain the Program Level issue and risk matrix log
• Provides a detailed plan of how the risk will be managed or eliminated.
• Provides a weekly Program status report with significant risk factors when the mitigation approach impacts the project timeline, budget, or objectives
• Coordinate the Risk Management Plan and Risk Mitigation Strategy across all projects within the Program and manages the execution of the individual projects.

Qualifications:

• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering or equivalent work experience required
  • 8+ years of IT and business experience in strategic planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of systems, preferably across multiple hardware and software platforms
  • Previous project management experience in a dynamic high-technology environment is the key to success in this position
  • Out of the eight years required, at least five years in a combination of the following: Progressive broad-based information systems Project Management experience (which could include consulting) with state-of-the-art software systems is desirable;
  • Experience in Program Management and execution of multiple related development projects simultaneously, particularly as Project Manager on systems development, with working knowledge of the Systems Development
  • Lifecycle and the Project Management Lifecycle

Preferred:

• 2 + years of Litify or other Legal Software project management experience is a plus.
• Master's degree in business- or technology-related field
• Prior legal industry exposure; specific experience with successful large-scale
• Program Management within a cross-functional environment
• Project Management certificate (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) (Preferred)