Senior Project Manager

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.

The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world, including key roles in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. Wind River has achieved 5G milestones, including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a Top Workplace for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture focused on growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

As a Project Manager on our team, you will own the full project lifecycle for customer engagements, exercising a wide range of responsibilities to bid and deliver successfully. Your work will span all the vertical markets listed above and will often involve next-generation technical projects. You will collaborate with colleagues across the company, including the Resource Management Office, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal.

• Presales:
  Work with sales staff, business directors, technical leads, and other project managers to qualify opportunities; work with customer teams to define requirements; perform architecture trade-off analysis and project feasibility; estimate costs and schedules; prepare written proposals and negotiate updates; demonstrate the value of Wind River to our customers to help win bids.
• Project Execution:
  Act as the project focal, coordinating directly with customers to ensure high customer satisfaction; build and manage teams to complete small to large projects in technically challenging areas, ensuring engagement and efficiency; deliver on schedule and within budget while meeting feature, quality, and contract requirements; enhance the depth of customer relationships to maximize business potential; proactively manage risks to minimize customer escalations, and manage escalations when they do arise.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Use company-defined tools and processes in accordance with our CMMI Level 3 rating; provide feedback to improve efficiency of tools and processes; collect and use metrics (EVM, estimates vs actuals, profit/schedule variance) for forecasting, estimation, tracking, and early problem detection; share lessons learned and implement strategies to prevent future repeats.
• People Management /
  
  Soft Skills:
  
  Communicate confidently and clearly; speak intelligently about Wind River products and technologies; establish a trusted advisor role with customers; manage direct reports and matrixed team members (performance reviews, mentoring/coaching, growth opportunities); resolve conflicts, remove roadblocks, negotiate compromises; manage competing priorities and deliver multiple presales/projects simultaneously.

• US Citizenship mandatory
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Engineering project and personnel management skills with demonstrated experience planning and managing multiple simultaneous engineering projects; building and leading development teams; and directing the design and troubleshooting of complex software and hardware systems
• Direct customer interface experience with a track record of achieving high levels of customer satisfaction
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Strong planning and organizational abilities; leadership; adaptability to new projects; resourcefulness and motivation to complete tasks; integrity; and enthusiasm for building technology expertise
• Experience working with and guiding international teams
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Additional coursework in business management or a Project Management Institute certificate is a plus
• 6+ years engineering experience or management expertise with embedded systems (software and/or hardware)
• Strong desire for hands-on Project Management experience with software safety certification standards such as DO-178C, FACE, IEC
  61508, IEC
  62504, ISO
  26262, etc.
• Expect up to 10% domestic and international travel

• Hybrid work model for workplace flexibility
• Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• RRSP matching for financial security
• Flexible time-off…