Project Manager
Company: Westlake Services
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 27, 2023
Job Description:
Position Overview
The Project Manager manages key client projects. Project management
responsibilities include the coordination and completion of
projects on time within budget and within scope. Oversee all
aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and
monitor and summarize progress of project.
Position Description
Our Project Manager is responsible for driving large scale
initiatives from initial opportunity identification and research,
to feasibility analysis and feature definition, through to business
adoption and success metric tracking.This role calls for a strong,
proactive manager capable of autonomously driving multiple projects
in parallel. This position is the dream opportunity for an
ambitious professional looking to have a significant impact in a
fast-growing company.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties include:
- Be proficient in the US credit union and automotive leasing
industries including the market players and industry trends.
- Represent our customers (credit unions, dealers and lessees) -
be their champion and their voice. Build impactful, personal
customer relationships. Bring the customers' voices into the
creation process.
- Collaborate across teams - continually seek feedback from
sales, marketing, IT and other stakeholders to ensure product
alignment. A collaborative attitude is essential.
- Prioritize external and internal Seamless enhancement requests
and arbitrate across stakeholders for the reprioritization of
strategic product backlog list as new requests arrive and business
needs change.
- 'Own' the integration requirements, specifications and
implementation for Seamless and other CULA systems plans.
- Obsess over user experiences and outcomes - work with UX to
design and develop delightful and thoughtful user flows.
- Work with technology teams to deliver a world-class product -
drive the end-to-end feature delivery cycle.
- Ensure products are thoroughly tested and meet product quality
measures prior to release.
- Communicate clearly and efficiently.
- Develop content for marketing collateral, presentations,
webinars and sales training in support of the product.
Qualifications
- Leadership - proven ability to set a product vision, excite,
and lead a cross-functional engineering team.
- Experience in the auto finance, credit union and vehicle lease
industries are a plus. Experience in the financial technology
markets is desired.
- A passion for creating innovative solutions and working closely
with engineering to define and deliver them.
- Extensive experience gathering feedback, analyzing it, and
prioritizing it. Demonstrate you can execute on this feedback
effectively and efficiently.
- A fantastic ability to listen to our customers; understanding
what they really need, not just what they say they want.
- A quantitative, data-driven approach to making decisions, but
know how to rely on your intuition when the data set is
incomplete.
- An analytical approach for effectively evaluating and executing
trade-off decisions
- Crisp and clear communication style across all mediums and with
both business and technology stakeholder groups
- Experience presenting to executive leadership and handling
sensitive customer situations.
- Proven ability to deliver on commitments.
- Ability to influence our team and work autonomously.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced
environment.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office products, with emphasis on
Excel and project management applications.
- Frequent travel is required (up to 30%).
- 5+ years of software product management experience.
- Bachelor's degree with a quantitative emphasis is required. Pay
Rate:
- $70,000 to $90,000 per year
- The exact starting compensation to be offered will be
determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire and will
be dependent on a wide range of factors, including but not limited
to geographic location, skill set, experience, education,
credentials, and licensure when applicable Full Time Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
- Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account
- 401K matching
- Employee Stock Ownership Program in a $14.2 Billion Company,
plus company matching
- Paid Vacations Days
- Paid Sick days
- Paid holidays
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not unlawfully
discriminate in employment. No question on this application is used
for the purpose of limiting or excluding any applicant from
consideration for employment on a basis prohibited by local, state,
or federal law. Equal access to employment, services, and programs
is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable
accommodation to the application and/or interview process should
notify a representative of the organization.
Keywords: Westlake Services, San Diego , Project Manager, Executive , San Diego, California
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