Summary

Provide comprehensive project management skills, demonstrate innovative leadership, and provide motivation to fellow team members to complete Site Reliability Engineering Operations projects.

Responsibilities

• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously
• Develops, executes, coordinates and monitors overall project plans (in Jira Projects), tasks, and milestones
• Implements management processes to identify, report, and monitor project issues and risks
• Ensure that projects and are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Manage and coordinate work with different teams
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
• Performs requirements gathering and technical analysis as necessary
• Interfaces with internal customers and external vendors
• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders
• Build templates for technology standards and end user documentation
• Document technology standards and processes
• Develop and maintain end user documentation (quick reference guides, etc.) as needed
• Work closely with Infrastructure Architecture, Information Security and Application Development teams
• Support vendor selection process and manage vendor administration
• Drive project planning and control from an operational point of view (activity, milestones and resource planning)
• Apply relevant standards to build project management framework for all projects within program
• Monitor the progress of project components to ensure the overall goals, schedules, budget, and benefits of the project are achieved
• Identify, resolve and/or escalate roadblocks, issues, and conflicts
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
• Contribute to the establishment of a common set of project management practices, tools and templates for portfolio, program and project level management and ensures standards are being followed
• Share best practices and lessons learned with the organization
• Develop resourcing strategies, allocates staff and delegates support as necessary
• Partner with other leaders to foster a workplace culture of transparency and effective execution
• Functions independently with limited work direction
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Demonstrate outstanding communication, flexibility, teamwork and leadership
• Participate, present and speak to OKR and KPI metrics and project performance data in management and executive level debriefs.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years Project Management experience with large scale, enterprise IT Operations projects required; 15+ years preferred
• Requires a deep understanding of infrastructure technologies across domains to gain credibility and manage multiple work streams and complex projects
• Previous experience working in a technical capacity (Operations or Infrastructure Lead, Systems or Network Engineer/Architect) preferred
• Experience with large scale Data Center, Cloud, Unified Communications and Collaboration and End User Computing projects required
• Requires strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations
• Top notch verbal and written communications skills required, as well as prior experience delivering presentations to senior IT leadership
• Prior experience documenting technology standards and experience working with IT Infrastructure Architecture and IT Operations areas required
• Experience with maintaining and tracking large ($1mil+) project budgets required, including extensive risk management planning
• Experience delivering projects according to SDLC requirements
• PMP certification preferred

Addepar is a wealth management platform that specializes in data aggregation, analytics and reporting for even the most complex investment portfolios. Founded in 2009 by Joe Lonsdale, who currently serves as an active Chairman of its Board of Directors and General Partner at 8VC, the company's platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data all in one place. It provides asset owners and advisors a clearer financial picture at every level, allowing them to make more informed and timely investment decisions. Addepar works with hundreds of leading financial advisors, family offices and large financial institutions that manage data for over $2 trillion of assets on the company's platform. In 2020, Addepar was named as a Forbes Fintech 50 company and honored as a member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in New York City and Salt Lake City. All brokerage services offered through Acervus Securities Inc., member FINRA / SIPC.

Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds, and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

In order to ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.