Producer / Project Manager 3
Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems and services that help educators teach with excellence. With its solutions, educators can easily apply research-based, proven practices such as frequent progress monitoring and needs diagnosis, data-informed decision-making, differentiated instruction, and professional collaborations across classrooms, grades, and schools. The company has helped educators address and solve some of the most pressing challenges in teaching and learning. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and three million students.
Job Description:
We are looking for Project Managers with an understanding of the challenges facing education and a love of technology to lead a cross-function team that will envision, build and test a transformative curriculum product. This role will manage a team that includes internal stakeholders, external partners and vendors. The right candidate will lead teams through all phases of development -- from RD to design and through to product launch.
Responsibilities of the Project Manager:
- Proactively organize and prioritize work of internal and external teams and manage relationships with partners and customers
- Lead effective team collaboration meetings with team members at all levels of the organization with tact and diplomacy
- Create and manage project plans and budgets and keep senior management apprised of project status, issues, risks and critical decisions at all times
- Deliver projects on time and under budget, while maintaining delighted customers and a happy team
Requirements of the Project Manager:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 2+ years in role of project manager or producer
- Strong communication, team work and interpersonal skills, analytical and problem-solving adeptness, and excellent organizational capabilities
- Proficient in the use of technologies like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project
- Demonstrated leadership capacity (teams of 5 or more in multi-disciplinary environments—e.g., technology, user experience, design)
- Nimble, organized, self-starter
- Experience working in education is preferred
- Knowledge of mobile and web technologies preferred