Project Manager

About Caylent

Caylent is a cloud native services company dedicated to helping organizations maximize the potential of their people and technology through Amazon Web Services (AWS). We offer a comprehensive suite of AWS services, including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and more.

At Caylent, our people are our top priority. We are a global, fully remote company with employees across Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We foster a culture that celebrates diversity and technological curiosity. Join us to discover what it means to be a Caylien!

The Mission

Caylent is actively seeking talented Project Management professionals at various seniority levels—Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, and Principal Project Manager—to expand our Cloud Project Management team. Your specific role and level will be determined during the recruitment process, based on your qualifications, experience, and assessment feedback.

The ideal candidate is empathetic, customer-centric, and highly organized. Your primary mission will be to collaborate closely with engineering teams and customer stakeholders to achieve project goals and engagement expectations. You possess experience managing large-scale or enterprise clients and can serve as a Scrum Master to deliver high-quality solutions using a consultative approach.

Your Assignment

• Manage all assigned projects, including setting goals with clients and delivery teams, planning, and executing projects.
• Conduct regular touch-points and coordinate account-related activities as needed.
• Act as Scrum Master to manage and track sprint progress against the overall project timeline.
• Schedule and facilitate short Daily Stand-Up meetings with the delivery team to track progress.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Collaborate with client Product Owners and Caylent Architects to author technical User Stories.
• Review and approve weekly time submissions and monthly invoices.
• Work closely with the team to ensure forecasting accuracy and budget management against deliverables.
• Report on project scope and budget against Statements of Work (SOWs) weekly.
• Proactively identify and resolve project issues and roadblocks.
• Champion project experience through excellent communication and relationship building among customer stakeholders and Caylent’s delivery, sales, and leadership teams.
• Seek and identify additional growth opportunities during the project lifecycle to help retain and grow the Caylent client portfolio.
• Mentor new team members through the onboarding process.
• Assist in identifying best practices or gaps in processes and work to implement changes as needed.

Your Qualifications

• 5 years (minimum) of experience in consulting or professional services managing large-scale, complex programs for Enterprise clients.
• Prior management of technical engagements consisting of 5 or more people and over a $500,000 budget.
• Experience and knowledge of project management disciplines, methodologies, and tools with the ability to build out client roadmaps.
• Experience leading projects in an Agile/Waterfall environment using advanced tool sets (e.g., Jira, Monday, SmartSheet, Assembla).
• Experience in forecasting and budgeting management to drive accuracy in revenue projections to realization.
• Ability to identify and manage risks, as well as proven ability in successful escalation management of Enterprise and Strategic or Complex clients.
• Demonstrated ability to understand client's business needs, encompassing both short-term objectives and long-term goals to drive additional revenue or account growth.
• Ability to interact with clients at both a business and technical level.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to executives.
• Ability to contribute processes, templates, and standards around project management best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to provide thought leadership in the areas of infrastructure modernization, application development, and/or data engineering disciplines.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks, manage engagements, and ensure they are executed with excellence.
• Ability to act as a mentor to new team members as part of onboarding or provide coaching to peers as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management certification - PMP, CAPM.
• Agile Certifications - CSM, PSM, CSP.
• Cloud certification such as AWS Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals.

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Generous holidays and flexible PTO
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State-of-the-art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

This role may require up to 25% travel, depending on business needs.

NOTE: We’re unable to provide visa sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

Key skills/competency

• Project Management
• Scrum Master
• Agile Methodologies
• Client Relationship Management
• Budget Forecasting
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Communication
• AWS Cloud Services
• Jira/SmartSheet
• Consulting Services