Project Associate

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Play a front-line role with Customers, Sales, and our Delivery ecosystem representing the high-growth software company that is energetically challenging the status quo of the database industry. 

Work in a team of technologists, sales and delivery professionals among the best in their fields. Work with some of the most ambitious and complex global companies, helping to define and progress their innovation initiatives across every vertical.

MongoDB consulting exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios - from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to cloud. Our consulting solutions ensure that organizations get the best out of MongoDB.

Help us take our business to the next level of scale and excellence in delivery and governance. You will have abundant opportunity to meaningfully impact the growth of the MongoDB business.

Candidate Profile

  • University degree or relevant work experience

  • At ease operating in a small, dynamic, fast growing team, able to be proactive and self-sufficient with an ability to have a can-do attitude and make oneself accountable

  • 2+ years experience with enterprise-scale software solutions, large scale software engineering or consulting services delivery experience preferred

  • Comfortable creating plans and priorities for both project delivery and customer resources

  • Demonstrated belief in the power of stakeholder management and communications

  • Outstanding and effective interpersonal skills; strong verbal and written communication abilities

  • Ability to foresee and assess risk, plan to mitigate risk and manage escalations or critical situations

  • Certification in or understanding of standard frameworks such as PMI PMBOK or Prince2 is beneficial

  • Theoretical knowledge of the Agile framework and related practices

  • Services delivery experience with development or operation teams is a plus

Position Expectations

  • Engage directly with customers to ensure swift, successful delivery of a specific set of packaged offerings

  • Own a portfolio of projects and work closely with customers and consultants to ensure accountability of execution

  • Setup resource planning and assignments in coordination with the PS Operations team

  • Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures

  • Organize and lead project status meetings and the follow-up to those meetings

  • Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings

  • Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members

  • Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project

  • Assess and handle project risks and issues, seeking to provide solutions where appropriate

  • Ensure clear stakeholder expectations are managed towards achieving the best possible solutions

  • Ensure robust communication internal to MongoDB, within the project team, and from the team to the customer

  • Expect to travel to customer sites occasionally

Measures of Success

  • Collaborate directly with customers and other internal teams to lead and deliver high-quality, reference-able engagements

  • Of paramount importance is predictability: predictability of forecasts for resource needs and revenue; predictability of internal & customer stakeholder management; predictability of outcomes; predictability of risk management; predictability of customer expectations and experience

  • Demonstrate business acumen through robust control of the internal and external budget, project margin, resource utilization and billability across your entire project portfolio 

 *MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.*

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MongoDB provides you with optionality in terms of your working model. This provides the flexibility to work from home when you want along with opportunities for collaboration and social interaction in a MongoDB office. Working models may be dependent on your specific role at MongoDB.

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