Staff Project Manager
Meet Yubico: the inventor of the YubiKey––the world's first and leading security key. Our company’s mission is to make secure login easy and available for everyone. Yubico was founded in 2007 by Stina and Jakob Ehrensvard, and recently went public on Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market: YUBICO. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of government agencies and millions of individuals in over 160 countries that rely on Yubico technology to secure access to computers, online services and mobile apps. We are a global company with a strong company culture and employees located in over 14 countries. Yubico’s headquarters are based in Stockholm, Sweden and Santa Clara, CA. Aligned with our mission to make the internet more secure for everyone, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations helping at-risk individuals through our philanthropic initiative, Secure it Forward.
At Yubico, we offer:
Freedom and Flexibility: At Yubico, we want you to be your most productive selves whether you decide to work 100% from home or choose to work hybrid/onsite. The way we balance the fast-paced demands of a high-growth company and sustainability is making rest a priority.
Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Aligned with this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups: YubiPride, YubiBIPOC, YubiSustainability and YubiWomen. Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world (you can read more about our work here).
Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter, and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether it's through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities. We host an all-team event in a new location every year where we plan for upcoming quarters, set goals, and most importantly, host fun events to encourage team building outside of the workplace. Check out our Life at Yubico Page on LinkedIn and our awards here.
The Role:
As a Staff Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning and facilitating the execution of Yubico’s strategic initiatives projects with key stakeholders across Yubico. The role will also work with Business Analysts to guide changes to Yubico’s business and technical environment. This role is ideal for someone who has demonstrable success executing complex projects within a global organization. The right candidate will have an opportunity to establish and own Yubico’s project management lifecycle and associated processes.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Process Development: Collaborate with Yubico’s program and product managers to define, implement, and mature the project management lifecycle and associated processes
- Project Management: Organize, coordinate, and facilitate the work of project team(s) and serve as liaison between business and technical teams, which includes planning project stages and assessing business implications for each stage ensuring timely and in budget delivery of the project
- Planning: With the support of business analysts, draft project plans, resource strategies, and funding estimates required to advance each defined effort. Ensure functional areas subject matter experts are appropriately represented
- Project Risk: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that may negatively affect the outcomes of the project, including budget, effort, and timeline.
- Mentor and Train: Mentor more junior team members and conduct workshops and project management training to leaders across the business
- Change Manager: Serve as the change manager for the Change Advisory Board (CAB) responsible for coordinating and aligning stakeholders as part of the change management process
- Trust: Earn trust through regular communication with stakeholders of all levels
Basic Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience leading projects across multiple functional areas
- Able to disambiguate desired outcomes, with the support of subject matter experts, to develop a plan to achieve those outcomes
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
- Experience identifying and treating project risks
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization
- Experience in managing relationships with senior leadership
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams in a global organization.
- Previous experience establishing a project management office and a project management lifecycle.
- Demonstrable success leading projects in both an agile and waterfall methodology.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or similar certification
- A command of Google Workspaces, Jira, and Confluence
- Experience developing the materials (e.g. guidance and templates) and training to support others in their ability to effectively lead projects’
- Experience developing business cases with stakeholders to justify investment in maturing, reengineering, and transforming business processes
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Our U. S. benefits are designed for your overall well-being:
Health coverage. We’ve got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision. We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family.
Retirement plan. Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year. Immediate vesting.
Wellness reimbursement. We provide you with $100 monthly reimbursement that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes.
Learning and development. We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program.
Time off. We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year.
Paid parental leave. We love welcoming new members to our YubiFamily! You will have 8 weeks paid 100% so you can take care of your new family.
Commuter Benefits. If you need to commute to the office, we offer commuter benefits.
Strong mission & company values. We’re a global team on a global mission to make the internet more secure for everyone. We believe that every person’s work matters. That you should always be nice, stay humble, and have fun, and never take yourself too seriously.
We are an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We'd love to learn about what you can add to our diverse team. We are an E-Verify Participating Employer.
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