IT Project Manager

Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

IT Project Manager

Job Summary:

Our client in Irvine, CA is looking for an IT Product/Project Manager knowledgeable in employee experience, communication, and collaboration applications This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

You'll greatly impact the organization while we build and shape the solutions across varied departments to better the overall employee experience throughout their onboarding and tenure. As part of the Digital Workplace & Solutions, Enterprise Productivity Apps team, you will define, design, and implement the solutions related to employee onboarding & offboarding, custom collaboration experiences, and general solutions to empower better cross-collaboration between teams. You will work with other highly qualified architects, admins, and engineers. You'll also act as a point of contact for vendor relations for a broad portfolio of software applications.

Responsibilities

• Conduct vendor conversations to help build and maintain crucial relationships with product suppliers
• Responsible for full life- cycle of projects from initiation to completion on all IT Capabilities related to the buildout if new work or retail spaces.
• Apply IT project management methodology and appropriate project management framework for all projects.
• Develop requests for proposal (RFPs) to engage third party installers.
• Successfully initiate, plan, execute and close all project deliverables as committed.
• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution, and delivery of projects including:
• Defining the project scope, roles, tasks, milestones, budgets and measures of success
• Developing project estimates and plans to manage the end-to end project execution
• Ensuring business requirements are captured accurately and completely
• Creating and maintaining project documentation
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination while adhering to standards and sponsor expectations.
• Acting as the link between the assigned project resources and key stakeholders.
• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation.
• Use disciplined project management methodology to define scope, develop project plan, and execute projects that adhere to guidelines and deliver within cost and schedule.
• Good cross functional IT and business communication, influence, and negotiation are required.
• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks including:
• Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution
• Managing the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps
• Monitoring financial delivery and issue management processes, and escalating issues
• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies
• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity
• Review action items from the design/construction meetings and follow through with the closure of the action items.
• Follow through projects with each stakeholder and report out to the leadership team.
• Responsible for building and leading effective project teams including: Using problem-solving/critical thinking skills, and independent thinking to overcome challenges. Communication to project team members, key stakeholders and sponsors Adapting to cultural and organizational climates across global team.
• Manage individual work styles and development of project staff
• Serve as primary contact to Sr department managers for critical change initiatives within a highly matrix environment.
• Work with cross-functional team, contractors, and vendors to deliver critical projects.
• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, engineering, brand/creative, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.
• Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.
• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.
• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations.

What You Will Need:

Basics:

• Bachelor's degree IT related.
• Hands-on experience streamlining and defining custom solutions, maintenance, and ongoing operational excellence of production systems.
• Experience in IT project management methodology
• Local to Irvine and Palo Alto CA.
• Salary range: 80k - 135k annual.

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business "First"
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Discounts
• Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer's toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today's problems into tomorrow's opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit

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Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair's history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.