Senior Project Manager

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. We are seeking candidates with significant experience in Google Cloud to join our team. Our engagements aim to eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization. We embed within customer teams to provide strategic guidance, facilitate technology decisions, and execute projects in a collaborative, co-development style.

What you will do...

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead and manage the successful delivery of engagements to drive customer adoption of Google Cloud services, like Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Anthos, and our AI/Machine Learning capabilities.

In this role, you will regularly engage with diverse stakeholder groups, including executives of large enterprises and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team within Google to help gather requirements, scope engagements, plan, and deliver service offerings to accelerate the cloud adoption journey. You will utilize your relationship management, leadership skills, and technical background to lead others, proactively mitigate risks, resolve issues, and advance projects when appropriate.effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.

What we need...

• Customer-facing experience, interfacing with executive stakeholders, driving/managing/delivering IT technical implementations, transformation programs, or other initiatives.

• Experience supporting enterprise customers in one of the following: Cloud Professional Services organizations, comparable IT consulting, or program management organizations.

• A history of mentoring and or teaching others to use process, organization, change, and/or learning improvement methodologies

• Create and run measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes

• Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions

• Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into overall project plans

• Adaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments

• Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills; rigorous approach to project management to deliver enterprise-level projects

• Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients

• Fluency in English is required due to the need for frequent communication with European clients and internal stakeholders.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in value consulting, proposal development, and execution with public cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Fluency in German is a plus, especially for working with customers in the DACH region.

Where...

• The ideal candidate for this role will be based in Europe

Why work here...

• We are professionals you can Trust. Our people have the extensive experience to get the job done 

• We share unbiased opinions and are comfortable with the hard truths. You are the subject matter experts for our customers. 

• We are the Missing Link. You will connect our customers to Google and move quickly when others can’t 

• We remove uncertainty and risk by clearly outlining the process of cloud migration for our customers

• We accelerate timelines and do not dwell on a challenge. You’ll move faster and expose “unknown unknowns” for our customers

• We show empathy. Our customers believe in us because we can relate to their complexities.

How to succeed...

• First rule at Zencore - Be Kind 

• Own the process - own your customer’s success by proactive practices 

• Work hard to reach the destination, but make sure to enjoy the journey 

• Champion a consistent collaborative culture 

• Be receptive to Feedback

• Challenge the Status Quo

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation and benefits.

Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Zencore is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.