Project Manager (Remote)

About the Role:

The Project Manager is a respected leader that enables cross-functional collaboration across the business. The Project Manager drives initiatives that impact strategic goals from initial discovery and problem definition through execution. The Project Manager is required to have strong organization, communication, and problem-solving skills. To be successful in this role the Project Manager must be comfortable in a fluid and ambiguous environment, proactive, persistent, able to work with diverse personalities, have a broad business perspective, a positive attitude, a learners spirit, perseverance to withstand challenges and opportunities, and a willingness to go above and beyond.

DreamBox is a fast growing company, if structure and certainty is what you crave, this may not be the role for you. If however, you seek a passionate and mission-driven company with lofty ambitions, and you are excited to contribute to transforming the way the world learns, this is the place for you!

What You'll Be Doing:

DreamBox is a fast growing company currently scaling our processes, tools, and policies to meet our extraordinary growth. We are a company that is constantly learning and evolving with a rapidly growing EdTech market, which means that strategic planning is a critical function of the PMO. Your role will be in partnership with our Senior Leaders to seek and clarify some of our most complex strategic objectives, working closely with subject matter experts, digging deep into problems and solutions and guiding the teams, with fierce determination, to remain focused on strategic alignment and business value.

This role requires that you are highly skilled in Project Management while also being flexible in style and execution. Just some of the project management activities this role is expected to fulfill: facilitate building project proposals, charters, and timelines as well as coordinate and lead working sessions, ensure stakeholder alignment, surface risks and dependencies, coordinate mitigation plans, and maintain documentation.

As the company scales, this role will partner closely with PMO leaders to leverage and reinforce the project framework, learning and iterating as we evolve. This small but mighty teams sits within the Corporate Development organization and is focused primarily on strategic enabling projects, but may be required to support team specific projects outside of the PMO.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Reinforces the implementation of the PMO framework
• Partners with requesters and evaluates for alignment with strategy
• Ensures the project and all milestones maintain strategic alignment
• Identifies and engages resources and stakeholders when necessary
• Strives for clarity and alignment across stakeholders, with an understanding of strategic priorities
• Translates and synthesizes disparate concepts and information, makes connections and communicates key themes
• Creates and maintains all project documentation, in partnership with project sponsor
• Manages to timelines and coordinates resource allocations
• Motivates and influences project team to execute and deliver on time
• Proactively identifies risks, mitigations and dependencies
• Organizes and facilitates all project related meetings and regularly communicates in many forms and forums
• Champions the use of RACI to ensure ownership, accountability and increase speed to decision

About You:

• BS/BA or equivalent work experience
• Experience as a Project Manager 5+ years, SaaS experience required
• Previous consulting experience preferred
• Experience in EdTech, preferred
• PMP or other certifications, preferred
• Must have a strong grasp on project management fundamentals
• Expert in waterfall project management, familiarity with other project methodologies including agile
• Familiarity with management and project tracking tools, e.g., Planview, Teams, JIRA, Confluence
• Ability to understand, collect, and communicate reporting metrics
• Must exhibit executive presence and presentation skills
• Legal right to work in the United States

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About Us: Right now, even though STEM skills are increasingly important, over 60% of students in Kindergarten through 8th grade are not proficient in math or literacy at their own grade-level. The pandemic has increased the opportunity gap for our most vulnerable students. As a society, we need to bring together our best, most creative minds to tackle this critical problem and ensure all kids are successful in math and school and have the tools they need to reach their potential. This includes developing the most innovative learning technology using advanced data science in a way that inspires students and empowers teachers. Come help us make a difference at DreamBox Learning.

We’re passionate about our mission to radically transform the way the world learns. Today, our Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform – with its rigorous curriculum and game-based environment – is helping 5 million kids and over 150,000 educators improve math achievement and build a love of math at the same time. In the wake of COVID-19, and the broad range of learning experiences: in-person, all virtual and hybrid models, we are uniquely positioned to bring our best-in-class adaptive learning platform to more students and provide Educators and Parents with insights into their student’s learning.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work solution once it is safe to go back into the office. We are all 100% remote at this time.

At DreamBox, we believe diversity is an essential strength. That’s why we’re committed to providing an inclusive culture, an equitable work environment, and creating the most effective educational products that celebrate the diversity in students, families, communities, and the world. We know that talent exists everywhere, but opportunity does not. Therefore, we are a proud equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, but we don’t make these commitments simply because they’re required by law. We hold ourselves to a higher standard and make these commitments so that everyone at DreamBox can bring their full selves to our important mission. Our identities matter, and in order to create a more just, equitable world, we know it begins with DreamBox being an inclusive workplace that serves as a model for that change.