Red hat Project Manager - Red Hat Academy 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

73107706

What will you do?

• Assist Red Hat Academy’s global program owner to achieve program goals

• Develop opportunities to expand the Red Hat Academy Program

• Ability to initiate projects effectively to include development and presentation of project kickoffs internally and with partners

• Actively manage diverse projects to successful completion from initiation through delivery and closure with minimal supervision through integration of various project management tools

• Ongoing performance improvements to ensure better quality, increased efficiencies and improved user experience

• Define processes and metrics to drive and measure consumption and quality of the Red Hat Academy program

• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to each project

• Coordination of cross-functional teams (through meetings and progress measurement activity) which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget

• Create awareness of the Red Hat Academy program through presentations and other collateral to both internal and external audences both online and at conferences

• Define and implement guidelines and processes to prevent abuse of program benefits

• Develop and maintain collateral to support the Red Hat Academy Program

• Define, develop, generate, maintain and report metrics that measure the success of the Red Hat Academy Program both qualitatively and quantatatively.

• Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or communications with demonstrated technical expertise

• Experience as a program or project manager in an IT academy program offered by a software or technology vendors is highly desired

• Experienced project management professional with a full understanding of industry standard project managementmethods

• Certification at PMI or PMP level or equivalent.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills, presentation skills, leadership skills, analytical abilities, and business judgment

• Ability to work globally outside normal business hours

• 5+ years experience as a project manager for IT training based projects, management of IT academy program projects is highly desired

• Ability to coordinate necessary internal and external groups to create business plans

• Ability to effectively communicate concepts and initiatives in a compelling manner to audiences of varying size and background

• Comfort working in a collaborative environment, with good team leadership skills

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and creative thinking skills

• Takes ownership of issue / problem resolution by ensuring systematic and timely risk / issue tracking, appropriate escalations/follow up and regular status reporting

• Ability to interact with senior Red Hat and vendor / partner management at all levels.

• Experience establishing and contributing to process improvements

• Experience dealing with complex projects, as well as multicultural and multidisciplinary teams

• Ability to work effectively across a widely diverse management team, as well as a broad spectrum of internal and external partners

• Detail oriented and able to work in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to leverage various types of media to tell factual stories clearly, creatively, and succinctly.