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Project Manager
Blackboard Inc.
Austin, TX, United States
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The Product Design team in Austin is looking for project managers to help maintain alignment across a number of ongoing projects in our organization. Be a part of a fast-paced environment focused on creating best-in-class experiences for our users and gain some experience in product-driven company.
Specifically, day-to-day responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Organizing cross-functional teams to ensure schedule and resources are aligned across groups.
• Working with both individual and broader Design Team to create workflow efficiencies and clarity around work priority.
• Mitigating scheduling conflicts and resource bottlenecks through proactive engagement with multiple organizational teams.
• Providing Confluence and JIRA documentation support to Product Management, Engineering and Design teams.
• Regular online interaction with counterparts at our offices around the world.
Core Required Skills/Experience
• 1-3 years project managing with, preferably, a creative or engineering discipline or a background that has exhibited a high degree of competency in another project management discipline.
• Confident and defendable decision-making, particularly when priorities and business needs are contradictory.
• Bonus: Some experience working in Confluence and JIRA, and other task-management tools, to help manage team prioritization.
• Bonus: A background in user research or other qualitative means to inform designing for the user.
Attitude
We are looking for someone who:
• Is a team player with excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Is interested in growing their skill set and professionally developing around a high-performing, energetic design team
• Is unwilling to accept inefficiency in getting things done.
• Enjoys working quickly.
• Is highly organized and motivated, with a desire to prove him or herself within a company of talented individuals.
• Is both self-motivated and able to motivate colleagues.
• Holds him or herself to high standards of accountability, owning responsibility for timelines and team and organizational communication.
• Has exceptional listening skill.
This is a full-time position with a competitive salary based on your experience. Please provide samples of your work with your application.
This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
Blackboard is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.
Location/Division: Austin, TX, USA Job Requisition: BB-2033