About the company:

At Qumulo, we are building a file data platform that is the foundation of our customers’ innovation and growth. Increasingly, businesses depend on hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of unstructured file data to store data like videos, images, security logs, sensor inputs, and genome sequences. Qumulo’s platform enables customers to easily manage that scale and gives them the flexibility to use that data either in their data centers or in the public cloud.

Founded in 2012, Qumulo is a Seattle-based company with over 300 employees world-wide. Our mission is simple: to enable customers to manage their file data at scale with unrivaled freedom, control and real-time visibility. Learn more about how we are helping our wide variety of customers innovate at www.qumulo.com.  

At Qumulo, our values define who we are and bring us together. At Qumulo, you will work with people who are data-driven and have a desire to work in collaborative team environments. Our team is passionate about learning and solving hard problems in a customer focused way. In building the future of storage, our culture is action oriented and motivated to see results for our customers.

About the position:Qumulo is looking for a strategic and customer-focused technical project manager to help us bring new hardware platforms to market. We are seeking an experienced change agent with the proven ability to collaborate across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success to deliver innovative new solutions for our customers. The right candidate is an experienced agile practitioner with the technical depth to work directly with engineers and hardware vendors, and the flexibility to apply and adapt agile project management methodologies according to the team’s needs and company culture.Responsibilities:

• Work with product, engineering, operations, and customer success teams to shepherd new platforms through the product development lifecycle.
• Build and maintain product project schedules. Facilitate cross-functional project work and communications between internal engineering and technical teams and external partners and vendors. 
• Own and manage the actions, issues and risks for hardware projects. Work with internal and external stakeholders and vendors to ensure timely and successful resolution. 
• Planning, monitoring and reporting status for hardware project logistics such as budgeting, ordering, shipping, and delivery.
• Communicate updates to project status, risks, issues, and milestones on a regular cadence.
• Demonstrate team leadership at all times. Coach and support teammates to be successful, and ensure the team as a whole is functioning as a high performing entity in an environment of trust.
• Depending on the project, you may be responsible for communication with the project team, the executive team, all of Qumulo, and external stakeholders such as vendors, customers, and partners.
• Maintain the team’s focus on the end goal, while simultaneously ensuring none of the tasks and milestones fall through the cracks.
• Ensure project closure is complete and all operational items are documented and implemented by the appropriate Qumulons.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in an engineering, operations, or hardware manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years of project, product, or program management experience driving projects to completion in an Agile engineering environment. (PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification is a plus)
• Experience working with storage or server OEM vendors and cross-functional stakeholders (i.e. engineering disciplines, operations, finance, sales operations, product management, and customer success) throughout the new product development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Rally, Confluence, Jira, and the G Suite of products including Docs, Sheets and Presentations.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, including judgement for when and how to communicate risks and issues.

Qumulo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background screening

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