Senior Project Manager

Customer Success | San Francisco CA or Seattle, WA or Remote - US

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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The team
Our Customer Success team is the largest organization in the world focused entirely on agreement processes and technologies. We are the Agreement Experts. With hundreds of thousands of successful customers worldwide, we know how to help our customers see results quickly. And that experience is just one of the reasons our customers trust us to connect, automate, and integrate their systems of agreement, everywhere they need to get work done. As part of our global team of Agreement Experts – in professional services, customer success management, learning and enablement, and customer support – you’ll bring your knowledge, insights, and proven expertise to help our customers achieve more than they ever thought possible.

This position
We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Go To Market (GTM) Operations team. The goals of the Project Manager are to develop and manage the schedules for internal projects within our GTM teams in support of our strategic initiatives while establishing, documenting and enforcing best practices for Project Management within Operations. The Senior Project Manager drives projects to completion by ensuring that all stakeholders are aligned through the entire lifecycle of the project. The successful candidate will be well organized and an exceptional communicator, with a strong bias for action and thrives in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.

This position is an individual contributor role reports to the Director, GTM Strategy & Operations and is designated Flex.

Responsibilities

• Lead medium to large-size cross-functional high complexity projects that involve new or enhance business requirements
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties and vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Manage dependencies between teams
• Steer teams and projects to on-time and high quality execution
• Develop project objectives, scope, completion criteria and success metrics by involving all relevant stakeholders, while ensuring technical feasibility
• Develop detailed project plans to track progress
• Define robust change plans that leverage other functions/teams and take responsibility for change adoption
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Identify issues and risks, develop mitigation plans and drive to resolution
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including status reports, meeting notes and action items
• Provide accurate, thorough and timely reporting and communication of progress against plans to the appropriate business stakeholders
• Evaluate existing processes, drive process improvement and share best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Mentorship and coaching of less experienced project resources

Basic qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, or discipline related to industry
• 8+ years project management experience supporting corporate business GTM solutions

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with business analysis
• PMI certified PMP is a plus
• Strong executive presence and experience managing senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of activities involved in end-to-end GTM planning and operations
• Ability to multitask, manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks
• Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as project charter, project plan, status reports, communication plan, change plan, issue tracker, risk mitigation plan, budget, milestone and deliverables charts
• Demonstrated experience managing issues, scope, and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within cost and time requirements
• Ability to manage complex project schedules and budgets
• Strong knowledge of the latest agile project delivery techniques and ability to plan a lead role in ensuring teams adhere to Agile values, principles and industry best practices
• Extensive expertise in the use of project management tools, resource management practices and change management techniques
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to facilitate meetings, lead project teams, and communicate effectively with senior leadership
• Ability to develop strong cross-team relationships and partnerships
• Not afraid to get involved in complex issues to drive problem solving, and rapidly get to solutions
• Self-starter and able to think on their feet and exercise good judgment and decision-making
• Dedicated, flexible, accountable, and able to respond rapidly to issues and manage challenging situations with high business impact
• Aptitude for identifying areas for improvement and developing appropriate new processes
• Ability to adjust personal style to different situations
• Ability to lead without authority to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for Colorado individuals only: Colorado base salary range: $106,500 - $130,200 and eligible for bonus, equity and benefits.

Vaccination requirement

DocuSign may require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination to visit a DocuSign office, to meet with potential or actual customers or business partners, or for other business-related purposes, in accordance with local law. Please note that DocuSign has contracts with different governments globally which may require compliance with local and federal laws.

About us

DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature: the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. And we help save the world’s forests and embrace environmental sustainability.

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. DocuSign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

Accommodations

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