Project Manager Ii

**What's Bench? **Visit Bench's latest news to see what's happening, and read what our customers have to say. You can also check us out in Medium, on our LinkedIn page, our Instagram, and our Life at Bench Blog.
We acknowledge that Bench is founded on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh _(Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations._

Businesses need to understand their financial performance, but for many smaller ones, this means a trade-off between managing their books and running their businesses.

Our mission is to help every business owner thrive, by providing financial insight and peace of mind in one seamless platform. From creatives to chiropractors, Bench helps thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs master their financial lives. Because understanding your finances should be three things: simple, effortless, and affordable.

We're growing fast, and we're looking for exceptional people to join us on this incredible journey. Check out our culture guide to learn more about what it's like to work at Bench and read more about our business here
- **What does the PMO team look like?**
- Reporting to our Manager, Strategy & Support Project Management Office, you'll have an understanding of agile development methodologies as well as lean project management principles. Since you'll be deeply embedded in the data and analytics group within Business Operations, you'll have a technical, data & analytics-savvy, and strategic-thinking background. You'll be working closely with several high-performing, collaborative, and technical systems and analytics teams as well as stakeholders across Bench and externally. You'll be an influencer and a key contributor in driving the success & growth of a data-driven organization supporting entrepreneurs.

**What you'll get up to**:

- Drive daily work through the data & analytics team by leveraging agile-hybrid ceremonies (Stand Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, etc.) and tools such as Jira to uphold and contribute to the development of Business Operations team ways of working
- Support organizational change management and business transformation projects
- Own and, with mínimal supervision, drive communications and collaboration between data & analytics teams and internal stakeholders on strategic projects
- Lead scope development and shape execution of data and analytics projects
- Clarify and document activities on strategic projects impacting Bench's data environment to build a shared understanding of, and ability to achieve, expected payoffs
- Identify risks and anticipate issues and bring attention and clarity to problems for resolutions and collaboration or awareness for decision-making to PMO
- Collaborate extensively both with cross-functional stakeholders and Business Operations teams leading groups to establish commitments and on-time delivery of all projects
- Provide regular updates and reports using various performance data to maintain awareness and drive improvements in the project for strategic impact
- Support documentation of work completed and manage the location, access, and awareness of documentation for various purposes with stakeholders and within business operations

**What you'll need**:

- **Experienced project manager**:

- You have 2+ years of experience in a Project Management Office or other project delivery team at a fast moving company on a variety of projects.
- **Previous experience **OR 5+ years of previous experience either working as a Project Coordinator or Analyst on multiple data-focused projects
- **Adaptable project manager**:

- You have a work history that shows you know how to leverage a core skillset to drive action and results on any project. You learn quickly and can thrive in dynamic environments and are not afraid to tackle challenges you've never faced before.
- **Data & Analytics Awareness** - You have experience managing or working on projects involving data governance, major business transformation, or technical debt reduction at a data-driven company.
- **End-to-end systems thinking - **You have experience transforming business processes alongside systems in an engaging and transparent way that helps others in the business adapt and support the changes.
- **Stakeholder management experience - **You've managed complex multi-stakeholder environments and understand how to get the best out of a group of highly motivated problem solvers and systems thinkers. You lead project teams with a view towards collaboration and delegated decision-making as much as possible.
- **First-principles problem solver - **You can quickly and effectively conceptualize and problem solve in a complex system of our customers, our colleagues, and our technology stack. You are energized by challenging problems, and are persistent/resourceful in your efforts to solve them
- **Driven to make