Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Position: Project/Program Manager I
Location: Seattle, WA
Duration: 5 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type:Onsite
Job Description:
- The Event Content team is seeking an event project manager to own the coordination of content development for allocated topic grouping(s) across both AWS and partner events.
- Working in partnership with product marketing, this role requires expertise in program management and the proven ability to apply that expertise to various event disciplines (e.g., content program management, expo planning, post-event analytics, etc.)
- The ideal candidate has a proven history of running similar workstreams with operational excellence in ambiguous environments; can work through complex tasks and projects quickly with little guidance; represents owned programs to senior leadership; and both anticipates as well as navigates roadblocks before they become issues.
- Candidates that have managed large volumes of deliverables and have worked cross-laterally with multiple teams will be prioritized.
Key Responsibilities for the Position Include:
- Maintaining deadlines and project trackers fully owning team(s) deliverables.
- Own end-to-end delivery of event content workstreams.
- Report owned workstreams to leadership and stakeholders, providing status updates and identifying roadblocks.
- Maintain detailed project timelines with clear milestones and deliverables.
- Execute innovations provided in program delivery methods.
- Conduct post-event data analysis and make recommendations for future program improvements.
- Ideally, you will be familiar with a variety of standard event marketing concepts, practices, and procedures.
- You will be expected to rely on your experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- You will be required to oversee the work of others, oftentimes including c-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication
- Knowledge of project management tools and software (M365, AirTable, RainFocus, Cvent, Asana, etc.)
- Experience demonstrating strong analytical abilities and confidence in the use of data
- Events program management or experiential marketing experience preferred, but not mandatory
- Program management experience (3+ years for PM I, 4-6 years for PM II, 7-10 years for PM III, 10+ for PMIV)
- Project management certifications preferred (CMP, PMP, PgMP, Prince2, etc).
Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication
- Knowledge of project management tools and software (M365, AirTable, RainFocus, Cvent, Asana, etc.)
Nice to haves:
- Conference planning experience where breakouts are a verifiable workstream
- Extensive experience in AirTable and RainFocus
- Extensive experience in M365 suite
Leadership Principles:
- Ownership
- Thinking big
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $47.66 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
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Skills
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- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
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- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Community Supportunmatched
- Conference Managementunmatched
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- Delivery Managementunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
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- Fortune 500 Customersunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
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- Multitaskingunmatched
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- Product Developmentunmatched
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- Project Management Certificationunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
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About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Level up your application
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