DirecciónWatchGuard embraces a Flexible Work Philosophy. Most of our employees can choose to work from the office, at home, or any combination of the two. We’ve built a global workforce of outstanding team members and a flexible culture built on trust, collaboration, and belonging.
Enter the exciting world of cybersecurity. WatchGuard has been protecting businesses against cyber criminals, malware, adware, spam, and accidental exposures for over 25 years. Every one of us depend on the internet for information, communication, e-commerce, and entertainment. WatchGuard has and will continue to develop solutions to combat ever changing cyber-threats. Join WatchGuard in this fight to keep our customer’s safe from the perils of the internet.
About the Position
The Project Management position will play a key role in delivering software, service, and operations projects and solutions for internal and external customers. The right candidate has strong communication and interpersonal skills, time management skills, and can develop an acute understanding how the department and project fits into the broader organization.
This is a great opportunity for someone who has a broad technical knowledge, can see applications and systems from a product perspective, and make sound project decisions. A successful candidate will build cross-functional partnerships with Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations, Technical Support, and Product Marketing to enable successful delivery of products and services across the entire enterprise.
This role reports directly to the Vice President of Product Delivery Operations and is part of a supportive, experienced team. If you are looking for a challenge and you’re enthusiastic, self-motivated, and want to grow your program management career, WatchGuard has the perfect role for you.
A day in the life… You will likely have e-mail from your world-wide teammates when you start your day. You tackle your e-mail and participate in meetings using Microsoft Teams or Zoom when scheduled. As a Project Manager, you will likely be hosting or leading some of these meetings. You will likely arrange calls with key members of your team to understand their status, challenges, and risks. You will be updating the status of your projects primarily using Confluence and Jira, but also in Excel or PowerPoint when appropriate. You will arrange time for product learning either through hands-on training or internal websites, videos, and documentation. At the end of the day, you reflect on the progress made as well as new risks and challenges identified; but you recognize the importance of your engagement in moving your programs towards its goals.
Position Responsibilities
- Drive successful delivery of technical projects/initiatives from project initiation to completion
- Work closely with project team members on their commitments, milestones, resources allocations, and deliverables during projects/initiatives
- Understand how our internal partner/stakeholder teams operate in order to manage priorities and deliveries of high-quality solutions in alignment with the product vision
- Effectively communicate objectives, project milestones, status, and dependencies in a timely manner to team members, stakeholders and management
- Identify roadblocks, issues and anticipate risks that may inhibit overall project progress and/or release success and report/escalate them to the appropriate stakeholder(s)
- Contribute to a positive team environment where equity and inclusion are highly valued
Skills and Qualifications
- Communications - Project management involves leading teams from different departments who may not be used to working together. Members may have different skills and may be expected to bring something unique to the table. A communicator who can provide clear instructions and expectations for their teams will increase work productivity and efficiency.
- Time Management Skills - The ability to manage time and prioritize tasks is an essential characteristic of efficient project managers
- Problem-Solving Skills – With the help of your project team and management support, the ability to propose and identify solutions to resolve challenges potential or already impacting the project
- Leadership Skills – The ability to influence others in a positive manner to achieve project goals.Effective project managers tend to be excellent decision-makers and are able to delegate responsibilities to the team members most equipped to handle them.
- Data-driven, relying on it to make decisions; but also capable of moving forward without it. Ability to establish Key Performance Indicators based on available metrics.
Experience
- Experience with Agile software development principles and methodologies as well as Agile Development tools such as JIRA and Confluence is preferred
- 3+ years of experience of experience leading software development or operations projects
Location & Languages
- Language Requirements: Spanish and English
- Preferred office Location: Bilbao, Spain
Why Work for WatchGuard?
WatchGuard is a global leader in network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Our award-winning products and services are trusted worldwide by more than 18,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers. Our technology keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers and has fueled record revenues at WatchGuard.
WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with team members working remotely and in offices worldwide.
Our company culture places an intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our Core Values: Accountability, Community, Belonging, Action, Innovation, and Customer-Centric. Learn more about our company culture at www.watchguard.com/wgrd-careers.
WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees, regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, age, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, mental or physical disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy focuses solely on the talent, hard work, contributions, and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristics rather than on talent, hard work, and actual work results to violate our EEO policy. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-verify.
WatchGuard is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.
