About Plumtree:

We're a digital commerce agency looking to add a digital marketing specialist to our team! We are open to both intermediate and experienced candidates interested in helping our clients operate successfully.

Experience Level: Manager

Remote Details: Fully Remote, working Business Hours Central Time

Job Description:

This individual will work directly under the Director of Projects. They will work with clients, and client vendors to grasp a complete understanding of multiple simultaneous projects’ scope, and effectively communicate this to the development team and other stakeholders.

This is a full-time, not contract, WFH position.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage client expectations in regard to schedule, budget, and quality
• Research, design, and plan mobile, web, database, or application software
• Work with developers and architects to create work breakdown structures and project schedules considering resource availability and skillset.
• Manage the workflow of the software development life cycle from scoping, to design, development, QA, production implementation, and post-launch support.
• Gather business requirements and work with Tech Leads to develop technical specifications.
• Design database schema
• Reverse Engineer legacy software to create functional requirements from the user interface and code standpoint
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Work with the QA department to validate development output in terms of both functionality and quality.
• Review and validate time entries from the development team.
• Own the cost, quality, and scope of projects that they manage.
• Be able to design and manage the development of software around complex business processes.
• Sales Support
• Assist the Director of Sales in sales calls with potential customers to discuss our PM process and gather requirements.
• Work directly with the sales department, clients, and developers to produce estimates and proposals for software development.
• When managing projects, please work with the client product owners to identify potential future scope to enhance their software.
• When managing projects, work with clients to identify other software development needs.
• Manage the proposal process for project change orders.
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Required Qualifications:

• 7-10+ years of work experience
• preferably working as a Business Analyst first and then transitioning to Project Management
• 5+ years of recent project management experience in software development
• 2+ years of Software Development Life Cycle experience (analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation) and Design Patterns experience.
• Have a technical background, preferably recent SQL, .NET, or iOS experience.
• Ability to read and write SQL queries.
• Experience working with Enterprise-level clients
• Experience working in agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience performing business analysis for software development projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A high bar for quality
• Knowledge of source control systems like Git, SVN, etc.

Nice-to-have Qualifications (** strongly):

• **PMP Certification
• **Experience working as a Scrum Master
• Recent software development experience in web development or mobile app development

Perks

• 15 days annual PTO, 8 holidays
• Heath, Life, Dental, & Vision Insurance, Long & Short Term Disability, 401(k)
• Company Leadership dedicated to personal & professional growth
• Any employee can refer a new client and get 5% of year one’s revenue, and 2.5% thereafter.
• Quarterly bonuses based on company performance
• 3 days annual self-directed learning days
• Paid lunches 2-3 times per week
• Remote work as needed to accommodate personal matters
• Ad-Hoc wellness based gifts, subsidized meditation training
• Company Outings: happy hours, crawfish boils, long lunches, go-karting
• Video games consoles onsite