Kin is looking for a Digital Project Manager with at least four years of experience managing multiple software and/or web application projects in a consulting environment.

As this is a 100% remote position, candidates need to have a quiet and distraction-free work environment with a stable internet connection. Candidates must be willing to work within our core business hours of 10AM - 4PM Central Time with some flexibility based on location.

NOTE: Due to contractual obligations, our new project manager must be based in the United States, and be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident of the U.S..

Who We Are

We are Kin, a workplace software company. Our mission is to build happier, healthier workplaces and we currently help millions of employees make informed decisions about their future–from health and money, to careers and feedback.

This position will be working on our Enterprise Workplace Team which builds custom software to help companies with hundreds of thousands of employees communicate all the ways employees are compensated – from salary, to healthcare, to retirement savings.

Requirements

Project Leadership

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think for oneself and take initiative
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Proactive thinker who plans ahead and anticipates conflicts before they arise
Large capacity for attention to detail
Have an agile mindset - Innovate, experiment and evaluate to improve process and evaluate new tools

Project Management

Provide accurate point-in-time view of timeline, budget, scope, resourcing and progress on all projects being managed
Be comfortable with multi-tasking, balancing smaller tasks while seeing larger and more complex initiatives through to completion
Have an understanding of the technology being used and why it is being used, in order to provide confident and accurate information
Translate client goals into requirements and development features and tasks
Possess advanced knowledge of project management systems (we use Jira) in order to provide engineers with accurate and actionable requests
Identify and address changing requirements and understand how those changes impact scheduling, resourcing and budget across multiple projects
Be the clear driver of the project
Keep client and team expectations aligned
Meet deadlines on time and within budget while managing multiple projects
Stay ahead of the delivery team by ensuring day-to-day goals are ready in advance

A typical week for a Kin project manager might look like:

Anticipate and resolve conflicts and blockers to keep deliverables on schedule, and adjusting team resourcing as needed to avoid over- or under-utilization.
Lead a Monday morning meeting with developers to ensure they have what they need to accomplish their work for the week
Write several messages to clients answering questions, providing technical expertise, requesting info, or giving a status update on a particular project
Work with developers to plan and estimate a new project or features of an existing application
Meet with client teams to provide status updates, discuss blockers, and onboard any new requests or changes to expectations.
Create detailed views of all projects with accurate reports on timeline, budget, resourcing, scope and progress

Benefits

We are a diverse workplace and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply for this position. We are intentional in our efforts to recruit diverse team members to cultivate an environment in which every team member feels included, respected, and embraced.

We offer an excellent benefits package, including:

We pay 70% of PPO health, dental and vision insurance
We pay 100% of life insurance, long and short term disability
We have an outstanding PTO policy which includes vacation time, under the weather time, community outreach/volunteering, company holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, and time and budget for personal growth.
We offer a 401K retirement plan with employer matching
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