Temporary work opportunities align well with people who are looking for career flexibility and less traditional ways of working, but at the same time are people driven to deliver amazing work in high-profile situations. Magnit Direct Source is a service offered by Magnit Global that provides top talent directly to industry leading clients who have a variety of flexible temporary assignments that unlock opportunities for exciting work. As a temporary contractor, you will be employed by our Direct Source partner, Magnit Global. Please note, this is a role with Magnit Global and you will not be a PayPal employee. This role is not eligible for any benefits under any benefit plan of PayPal, PayPal Affiliates, or their respective successors and assigns.

Location

This is a 100% remote role.

About the Role

Role will involve understanding business requirements, ability to translate & implement solutions in a scalable and consistent way using applicable tools and processes

Responsibilities 

• Organize and lead planning activities resulting in the creation of a release/program roadmap
• Ensure all teams align with enterprise planning expectations
• Define launch strategy for new product capabilities including geographic scope and rollouts, detailed timing, ramp and analytics plan
• Proactively manage across stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate significant roadblocks in a timely fashion
• Exercise smart decision-making and effectively collaborate with other leaders and stakeholders to address key issues and roadblocks aggressively and in a timely fashion
• Ensure measurable KPIs are developed for the program, and that they align to the overall KPIs for the product
• Create and manage clear Gating Criteria with business partners for Go/No-go decisions
• Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international regions
• Identify program impediments and addresses including proper escalation to individuals/groups as needed
• Lead program retrospectives and commitment to improvement on a regular cadence
• Advocate and manage program implementation according to PayPal’s product lifecycle management
• Lead effective project/program governance and stakeholder management, ensuring adequate understanding of timelines, resource needs, risks, contentions, and dependencies
• Assess the current methodology, identify/rationalize gaps vs. best practices, and continuously improve the process to support our aggressive deployment schedule

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to translate business requirements, work with various levels of business and Engineering stakeholders to create innovative design solutions
• Ability to help drive execution across all phases of projects in connecting engineering with Architecture, Partner & Product teams
• Drive coordinated management of inter-dependent projects in Agile and waterfall environments 
• Automate team dashboards, metrics delivery & executive presentation using tools outlined
• Drive operational excellence activities required to ensure a streamlined production process of our data science deliveries 
• Manage project/program level communications both between and across Domain & its customers 
• Experience working in a hybrid delivery environment (Waterfall and Agile) 
• Experience managing projects with Jira
• Experience managing budgets, financial acumen, organizational skills, attention to detail. 
• Project Online/Server experience - PPM tool Clarizen/Planview - strongly preferred. 
• Strong MS Office experience required (Excel, PowerPoint). 
• Experience with Vendor relationships, SOWs and proven stakeholder management 
• Proven Risk/Issue management experience and experience managing project teams consisting of both offshore / off site resources. 
• Experience managing up to three projects simultaneously
• Previous experience managing / controlling project budgets between $500K - $5M Minimum
• Ability to flex and successfully manage projects across any technical Domain – HR Back Office, Infrastructure & Reliability, Data, (may be “home-roomed” in one Domain but flex to other areas as needed)
• Communication (All), Verbal, non-Verbal, Polished, Listening Skills
• Ability to craft story, communicate background, next steps, what's in it for me
• Knowing audience - Engagement model, understanding what others like in communication 
• Ability to maintain control under stressful situations 
• Ability to adapt and be flexible while maintaining the appropriate level of control 
• Self Motivated, driven, quick learner
• Business acumen/partnership - how have you partnered vs. being a task master/overseer 
• Working in a strong matrixed organization 
• Managerial courage, ability to deliver difficult messages, influence, persuasive 
• Ability to understand the solution and technical aspects of the project at the right level of detail 
• PMI talent triangle - Technical Project Management, Leadership, Strategic Business Management Cross team/project coordination and collaboration 
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, open team environment 
• Agility in working across time zones (we have teams in NA, EMEA and APAC) 

This is the pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position: $70.21/hour - $93.61/hour

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K