Transfr is on a mission to help create pathways to career success. Our immersive career exploration and training simulations empower learners and job seekers of all ages find the right job for them and build the skills they need to enter (or reenter) the workforce or change careers — helping them improve their quality of life. Immersive VR experiences from Transfr have been shown in studies to deliver better learning gains than video tutorials, slide presentations, and other training methods. Learners also find Transfr experiences highly engaging and enjoyable. At Transfr, we believe the future starts with innovative workplace training and skills development. We’re building bridges between schools, workplaces, and governments to help improve training and job placement pipelines and create a better tomorrow, today.

Summary:The Project Manager role at Transfr is passionate, versatile, driven, and enjoys collaborating with others to create game experiences working directly with internal and external teams. You work closely with a collaboration-oriented engineering team and have the opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways. You also work with our dedicated art and development teams to design and implement creative and technical solutions, provide expert knowledge to increase our software’s quality, and contribute to all phases of the VR development cycle. Your main KPIs are tied to tracking of projects, addressing and elevating challenges and ultimately on-time and on-budget completion of the projects.

Responsibilities:

• Plan the end-to-end delivery of assigned project(s) through collaborative planning efforts

• Facilitate requirements gathering and estimation process to align stakeholders on scope

• Ensure your project(s) assigned resources are efficiently utilized and aligns with plan and forecast

• Proactively identify and communicate potential risks, gaps, or timeline impacts to stakeholders

• Establish methods to measure and monitor the health, feasibility, and deliverability of assigned project(s)

• Monitor and raise awareness of all business commitments related to your assigned projects(s) or team(s)

• Solution towards project(s) cost optimizations and reduction of cycle times whenever possible

• Identify, communicate, and resolve dependencies across QA, Engineering, GTM, Product, and Studio resources

• Maintain necessary project management source material repositories, documentation, and task databases

• Be familiar with project management related software tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Float, spreadsheets

• Maintain a general understanding of VR development and/or related software development processes

• Effectively drive all necessary meetings and various agile ceremonies (when applicable) to a conclusion

• Track time for assigned project(s) and allocated resources against project(s) budgets when applicable

• Provide weekly summary to stakeholders that details progress, risk, timelines, and dependencies

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in technical project management or working in engineering-heavy environments

• Extensive knowledge of agile, waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.

• Strong communication and mediation skills, comfortable collaborating with and facilitating both highly technical and non-technical multi-discipline teams. Understands the importance of influence and has a proven track record of suggesting successful solutions

• Demonstrable experience, analyzing, forecasting, planning, and delivering all phases of complex software-based projects - maintaining a firm understanding of SDLC.

• Highly analytical with strong problem solving skills and intuition to “see around corners”.

• Proactivity and grit to uncover answers to ambiguous problems

• Advanced knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Figma, G-suite.

• At least one related project management certification (CSM, PMP, CAPM, ACP).

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $100,000 and $120,000, with the actual base salary amount dependent on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s credentials, relevant experience, and primary job location. In addition to salary this role may be eligible for variable compensation and additional company benefits such as stock options, 401(k), paid vacation and sick time, and medical/dental/vision insurance.

In Closing:

If you're looking to make a big difference in the lives of others, we invite you to join us on our mission to make learning more intuitive by helping individuals develop the skills they need for career success. Be a part of creating pathways to prosperity by helping to develop training simulations to teach skills that lead to well-paying jobs, for all.

At Transfr, we embrace diversity because it breeds innovation. Transfr is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants, consultants, and employees, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We know from experience and past hires that the best person for this role will likely not check every box listed here. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet all the qualifications described!

Must be authorized to work in the United States without restriction

Learn more at transfrinc.com

Compensation Range: $100K - $120K