Project Manager (PM)

Deft Consulting is looking for a talented, driven individual in Quito, Ecuador, to join our team. The right candidate would have an aptitude for managing people and projects and the attitude to speak intelligently on high-level content of software and technology.

Location: Ecuador

Travel: As needed (open to discussion)

Required:

• 5 years of experience managing software development projects
• Responsible for being an escalation point as necessary for client communication
• Appropriately communicates impacts and risks to clients
• Clearly demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects successfully, continuously delivering successful implementations that meet the business need
• Clearly demonstrated ability to grasp business requirements and data at a high level to understand the overall objective of a project, identifying what would qualify a project as being successful
• Clearly demonstrated ability to manage resources effectively with a positive track record of ensuring project timelines from all members of the team and having properly identified and tracked any risks from the client/dev team that might have impacted that timeline
• Experience identifying and mitigating risks

Preferred:

• Ultimately responsible for the success/failure of each delivered project
• Appropriately delegates when necessary
• Demonstrated lack of hesitation to "get your hands dirty" if needed
• Appropriately assesses critical situations, clearly assessing the situation and communicating severity and impact while working with the client to properly determine priority