Project Manager, Posit
Solutions Engineering
$109.6-144.7k
+ Annual profit-sharing bonus
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Be an early applicant
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$109.6-144.7k
+ Annual profit-sharing bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects in enterprise IT environments
- Proven ability to develop and implement project plans aligned to organizational and customer goals
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus
- A strong track record of delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget
- Comfort managing and documenting project activity using systems like Salesforce, Jira, or similar tools
- A commitment to excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
What the job involves
- The Solutions Engineering team at Posit partners closely with our customers—especially their IT and SysAdmin groups—to ensure they get the most value from our professional products
- We serve as proactive technical advisors, helping customers evaluate, configure, and deploy our tools effectively. Whether resolving issues, planning for future changes, or navigating complex environments, we work side by side with our customers to remove barriers and support their success
- As a Project Manager on this team, you’ll play a vital role in driving the success of our customer engagements
- You'll provide structure, clarity, and coordination across a portfolio of complex IT projects—ensuring alignment between customers, engineers, and internal stakeholders throughout every phase of the project lifecycle. From initial planning to successful delivery, you’ll ensure we stay on track, meet deadlines, and deliver value
- Own a portfolio of 15-20 concurrent enterprise IT projects, ranging from implementations to migrations, architectural changes, and adoption of new use cases
- Drive end-to-end project planning and execution, including documenting scope, milestones, roles, risks, and dependencies
- Monitor and adjust project scope and timelines to accommodate changes and mitigate risk
- Manage and resolve risks, identifying issues early and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to remove blockers
- Interpret project-related contractual obligations and ensure compliance throughout delivery
- Act as the primary point of contact for all project communications, updates, and escalations
- Coordinate and facilitate meetings, scheduling and leading internal and customer-facing sessions that promote engagement and accountability
- Drive alignment across Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, and Leadership to deliver cohesive, successful outcomes
- Support customer satisfaction and long-term retention through thoughtful delivery and relationship management—building referenceable accounts
- Escalate issues to management and surface insights that inform process improvements or resource planning
- Maintain clear, current, and accessible project documentation across systems such as Salesforce and project management tools
- Identify and share best practices that improve project delivery consistency and efficiency across the team
- Create repeatable processes and tools that make project management scalable as the team and customer base grow
- Improve internal collaboration by clarifying roles, handoffs, and shared responsibilities across departments
- Within 1 month, you’ll:
- Learn about Posit, and the business goals customers aim to achieve with our products
- Meet with members of the Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales team
- Learn existing project management processes and tooling
- Within 3 months, you’ll:
- Be engaged in a handful of customer engagements, defining scope and documenting the plan for success
- Start collaborating with a solutions engineer to understand and document processes for common project types
- Within 12 months, you’ll:
- Have managed more than a dozen projects with customers from start to finish, improving on customer satisfaction and project duration
- Create multiple reusable project templates for common project structures
- Regularly share feedback to product teams and leadership at Posit on how to make the customer experience better
Our take
In a data-driven world, having reliable and accessible software is key to optimizing functionality. Posit provides R and Python-based tools to help improve the speed and quality of analysis, created "for data scientists by data scientists", with uses in data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Posit's unique approach to creating universal data processing capabilities is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. It uses a unique blend of social and commercial endeavours to satisfy the demand for comprehensive data processing, and many of the company's products, including Posit Team for enterprises, are open sourced and accessible to all. Those looking for more advanced products can access programs such as Posit Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for workspace management.
Given its unique approach to data management, entities from Liberty Mutual to Walmart and NASA have been incorporating Posit's technology. The company has received considerable amounts of funding, which has been used to expand its services, in 2024 launching the beta of its next-gen data science development environment. As the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit's effort to create data management services for all should continue to capture market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$161.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $161.3m
Company benefits
- 100% remote (or come in to one of our offices in Seattle or Boston)
- Pick your hardware — we want to equip you with what you need to do your best work
- All our full time employees are given an allowance to outfit their home office
- We have a flexible environment with a “take what you need” vacation policy
- Positive, passionate culture working with a world-class team committed to data science and the R language
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Leadership
JJ Allaire
(CEO)Founded Allaire, where they served as CEO and then Chairman. JJ also founded Onfolio, which was acquired by Microsoft. They founded FitNow in 2008 before starting RStudio in January 2010.
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