General Summary
Autodesk is the world's leading design software and digital content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. Autodesk helps customers in the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media, and wireless data services as well as increases the value of their digital design data and improves efficiencies across their entire project lifecycle management processes.
One of the largest software companies in the world, Autodesk has 9 million licensed users in more than 185 countries. For more information on Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com
Position Summary
Exciting career opportunity that provides a Project Manager role in the AEC BIM Krakow Poland center that is involved in the design and implementation of the next generation features for Autodesk products. We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and driven project manager to support our development teams. As a Project Manager, you will be working on managing internal projects, projects with external contractors/partners and product development projects from initiation through delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Monitors project to ensure completion within defined schedule, budget, and quality parameters.
- Leads the overall product release lifecycle by working with functional team leads across organizational lines (Product Management / Product Development / QA / Documentation / Product Marketing / ...).
- Leads and manages internal and external project resources across organizational lines. Negotiates assignment of critical resources and assigns responsibilities.
- Develops and maintains project plan and schedule utilizing corporate standard best practices, PJM software, key performance indicators and metrics.
- Assists team members in defining project resource plan, including internal and contract resources and in developing the business case for technology projects.
- Assists team members in planning, estimating, and controlling tasks. Ensures that interfaces are recognized and tasks are integrated. Performs critical path analysis and develops action plans to mitigate risk. Identifies and
- Implements alternative solutions.
- Delegates and empowers others and removes obstacles.
- Maintains open communication among project team members and leads project review meetings.
- Facilitates team members to establish healthy, collaborative relationships.
- Effectively contracts and communicates with stakeholders to ensure satisfaction with project management services and product delivery. Works proactively to resolve critical issues. Maintains effective communication channels. Consults with others on development and execution of complex project plans. Manages client and stakeholder expectations.
Duties & Key Activities:
- Planning and budgeting
- Project control and status reporting
- Team management
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Driving completion of assigned projects
- Driving project outcomes to meet scope, schedule and budget objectives
- Take on multiple and complex projects.
- Coordinate product development and launch team activities through the entire lifecycle.
- Report project status using metrics and standard reporting tools. Drive issues to resolution.
- Coordinate process improvement.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent...
- At least 3-5 years professional experience in software product development.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Excellent negotiation skills.
- Excellent understanding of the software release process, from conception to commercialization.
- Able to learn and understand of all corporate functions and to work directly with all of them.
- Able to lead cross-functional teams and manage across organizational lines.
- Able to work with remote sites/teams and work with people of divers cultural backgrounds.
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Able to work autonomously with minimal direct supervision.
- Advanced MS Office software skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Additional Qualifications:
- Self-direction, willingness to take initiative, make decisions and resolve issues
- Results-orientation
- PMI certification
- MS/MBA
