Software Project Manager

Company:	Wireless Generation Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (0)
Job Location(s):	Brooklyn
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Not Provided
Required Education:	Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Management and Supervision, IT - Software Development

Position Description

Location:	Brooklyn, NY
Duration:	Regular Full-Time
Relocation Available:	No

Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter. With its mobile assessment software, the company invented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-based instructional decisions. Now Wireless Generation has broken new ground with technology that analyzes student data and customizes curriculum to individual learning needs. Wireless Generation also builds large-scale data systems that centralize student data and give educators and parents unprecedented visibility into learning. A Web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge network for educators propagates proven approaches across schools. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students. More information is available at www.WirelessGeneration.com

Project Manager

Job Description - Project Manager

The Software Project Manager works with senior Wireless Generation leadership and key customer accounts and partners, taking full responsibility for the development and ongoing enhancement of one or more of our handheld education software products.

Responsibilities of Project Manager:

Deliver design and development projects on time, on budget, with delighted customers and a happy team.
Create and track project plans, perform business analysis and write specifications, develop project estimates, follow Wireless Generation process standards to meet project objectives, manage scope throughout the project lifecycle, and set project quality and performance standards.
Clarify and communicate project objectives and success criteria to the team while providing motivation, direction, and overall management to teams of up to 2-8 people including designers, architects, developers, QA.
Manage multiple elements (software, kits, training materials, documentation, etc) that come together to launch a new product while managing customer, third-party partner and vendor relationships as necessary.
Track and communicate project status, issues, risks and decisions to senior management.

Requirements of Project Manager:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
2+ years in role of project manager using a formal software development lifecycle and experience guiding multiple full project lifecycles from concept to delivery.
Responsibility of directly managing 2+ individuals.
Possess strong communication skills, team work and interpersonal skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, and organization skills.
Proficient in the use of technologies like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project.
Demonstrated leadership capacity (teams of 5 or more in multi-disciplinary environmentse.g., technology, user experience, design).
Experience working in education is preferred.

Wireless Generation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.