Project Manager (12month FTC) part-timers welcome!

(12month FTC) part-timers welcome!

Qblox is seeking a driven project manager to join us in our mission to build industrial scale quantum computers. Project managers are responsible for the successful execution of hardware, firmware, and software development projects. Operating as part of a larger solutions program, the candidate will work with a team of R&D domain experts to establish and manage to deadlines, define attackable units of work, and ensure cross-domain communications. To be effective in this position candidates must possess strong interpersonal skills, an engineering mindset, with the organizational skills to enable planning, executing, and accounting for project work. The project manager role reports to a program manager.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Manage the project team resources assigned to the project to deliver success on time and on budget.

2. Plan, manage, and hold to account subcontractors.

3. Work with the program manager and other project team members to identify relevant project deliverables, adding or removing as is necessary for project success.

4. Proactively work with project team members to plan, estimate, and sequence logical units of work inside of the Qblox Product Lifecycle Management system. Finding logical divisions of work inside domain functions.

5. Constantly maintain product and technical requirements as the “truths” of the project.

6. Help identify risks, known unknowns, and develop risk mitigation strategies during the project cycle.

7. Operate on a project scrum cycle, target effective resource utilization and minimize blocking interdependencies.

8. Manage Jira boards, confluence spaces, slack channels and other communication and documentation tools as related to the project.

9. Communicate openly and often, do not be afraid to ask questions, do not be afraid to convey bad (or good) news, always target first principles thinking.

10. A self-starter and active contributor to moving the project forward, find the gaps and fill the gaps to allow work to proceed.

11. Accurately report on the status of the project, resource effectiveness, resources utilization, to the program and executive levels.

Measures of success:

1. Delivery of projects according to schedule and budget.

2. Internal customer feedback, multiplier effect on domain work performance.

3. Accuracy of project reporting.

4. External customer feedback, net promoter score on products

Enough about us, what about you?

To enjoy this role, we anticipate that you will have some of the following:

Education and experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or business.

2. Minimum 4 years of project management experience, additional consideration given to hardware development experience.

3. In-depth knowledge of project and reporting related tools, Jira, Confluence, excel, etc.

4. Proven track record of success in delivering complicated projects.

5. Project management qualifications preferred.

6. Technical background in digital design, RF, embedded engineering is a plus.

Skills and competencies

1. Ability to work across technical and functional boundaries, influence, and inspire team members to succeed.

2. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, perusing positive ideas and questioning assumptions.

3. Technical skills and familiarity with engineering concepts.

4. Excellent time management skills.

5. Ability to establish expectations and hold team members accountable for those expectations in a professional maner.

6. Effective written and verbal communications.

7. Know when to maintain decision making authority and when to escalate problems.

8. Eye for detail, inexhaustible supply of energy to dig down.

9. Ability to take criticism and ownership of failure, while praising others for success.