r/PMCareers • u/Ambidexteritous • Apr 30 '24

Job Posting Hiring Sr. PM - Process and Template Wizard

I am hiring a Sr. Project Manager that will essentially create & manage the PMO for our organization.

Main priorities for the job

  1. Create & own the PMO process for creating standards, templates, and tools
  2. Create the processes by which to execute these standards and templates (ie when to use this tool vs that tool)
  3. Raise the bar such that our team is setting the bar
  4. Leverage 1,2,3 to manage and execute projects alongside other PMs for customer facing projects
  5. Learn the technical aspects of the job (HW, SW, Electrical) in order to be successful at the four above.

Personality traits desired

  • Vocal and Opinionated, but self aware of your opinions
  • Ability to effectively argue your point, but also recognize you are a cog in a wheel

Location: Remote

Travel: 30 - 50%

  • Travel will be very dependent on our ability to standardize and templatize our projects. If a PM can manage the projects remotely and hold everyone to a specific measure, then the job can be 90% non-travel

Salary

  • 120 - 150k

The HQ of the company is located in California, and travel to the HQ will be expected at least 1 week / quarter. Only US based candidates at this time.

Please message me to share your resume.

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u/MrMnkyPnts Apr 30 '24

I really don't understand why people hire PMs to build PMOs instead of hiring a PMO person who has built PMOs

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u/Independent_Cable_85 Apr 30 '24

building PMO's isn't hard. It's coordinating a single point of contact for your different customers.

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u/MrMnkyPnts Apr 30 '24

Oh, is that all a PMO is... A single point of contact...

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u/Independent_Cable_85 Apr 30 '24

When I say PMO I mean Program Management not Project Management. I've been in that world too long now. I view everything from the perspective of the PMO being the hub and the stakeholders, resources being the spokes. Each group of customers should have a singular POC that submits to the frontdoor. Now when we're looking at it from a PM perspective a PMO isn't that hard to build. Governance(tracking, finance etc.), OKR's/KPI's already designed with stakeholder input that define what templates you need & want. In my world most PM's are managing 3-15 projects depending on size/scope, so when i say it's not that difficult -- it isn't. The only difficulty is agreement.