Principal Delivery Manager, Datasite
Project & Program Management
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Virtual data rooms for M&A dealmaking
Job no longer available
Virtual data rooms for M&A dealmaking
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the dealmaking community to work smarter and faster.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years' work experience preferably as a project / program manager
- Understand fundamentals of IT infrastructure and IT Service Delivery
- Understand Agile and Lean practices
- Highly organized and a strong communicator who can effectively multitask and prioritize as needs evolve
- Able to learn quickly and work proactively
- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members
- Lead regular team meetings to determine progress, set momentum, remove barriers, and actively address internal and external risks and dependencies
- Able to communicate effectively between a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders to interpret business needs
- Able to prioritize the most important or highest value tasks
- Able to use data to inform planning and managing complex internal and external dependencies
- Experience working in an agile product development environment is preferred
What the job involves
- The Delivery Manager will be responsible for planning and managing the overall delivery roadmap for multiple initiatives
- This Principal role is also responsible bringing thought-leadership, organization and clarity to the overall IT portfolio of initiatives
- Examples include: ensuring cross-functional collaboration, ensuring key stakeholders are engaging as needed, unblocking projects and ensuring project deliverables are high quality, establishing the MVP mindset and approach, checking that backlogs are being prioritized using value-focused OKRs as criteria, etc
- Delivery management is critical for the success of Datasite as it is the cornerstone and pillar for transformation
- The overall role is to ensure features and functionality are being delivered while maximizing efficiencies by removing blockers / issues and mitigating risks
- Team Operations – Builds and maintains motivated teams, making sure there is iterative plan to work towards, supporting the day-to-day agile ceremonies of teams (sprint planning, reviews, growing, retrospectives etc), team administration, performance and OKR management. Leads team and serves as the liaison between Project Owners and IT Governance
- Removing Obstacles and Impediments that hinder or limit team efficiency. i.e removing ‘blockers’ or obstacles to progress: negotiating with stakeholders, refocusing senior leadership, or addressing procurement issues for example
- Reporting – tracking key project and delivery metrics, understanding and reporting on current state and progress of work, what is done and not, etc. Clear reporting and communication is key for this role, not only to the Leadership Team but also to project teams, IT team members and business leads
- Project Execution Discipline – follow-up on day-to-day tasks/activities to exceed expectations. Focusing the team on what is most important to the delivery of projects and core IT services
- Org Readiness – ensures that all Datasite internal stakeholders are fully prepared to support the features/functionality that we introduce to our clients. Org readiness helps identify well in advance risks, action items and experts needed to ensure success during launch activities
- Agile Work and Coaching –Reinforce proven tools, techniques, practices, coaching teams through discovery and delivery stages. Maintain, enforce and help evolve agile delivery standards and best practices. Mentor and train IT team members in agile delivery
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As M&A deals continue to increase in both size and frequency, key stakeholders have been actively seeking tools to streamline their work. Datasite emerges as a solution. Having transitioned from its original focus on communications, the company now offers a suite of SaaS products tailored for M&A professionals, serving approximately 75% of the leading legal firms in the field.
Benefiting from its extensive experience in the industry, Datasite has successfully transformed into a more contemporary business entity. And it has also introduced highly acclaimed AI-powered technology to assist in deal preparation, asset marketing, and facilitating buy-side acquisitions.
With significant global expansion and strategic acquisitions, Datasite remains committed to enhancing its platform capabilities. Notably, in March 2023, it unveiled Datasite Cloud, specifically designed to streamline every aspect of the dealmaking process within a unified platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
- Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
- Employee assistance program
- Generous retirement plans
- Incentives for referring new colleagues
- Learning, training and mentoring programs
- Cross-functional projects
- Stretch assignments to help you progress
- Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
- Employee bonding activities
- ESG and charitable team initiatives
Company HQ
Downtown West, Minneapolis, MN
Leadership
Rusty Wiley
(CEO & President)Before joining Datasite, Rusty held various executive roles at IBM Corporation, most recently, as General Manager, Banking & Financial Markets. Upon joining Datasite in 2014, Rusty led the successful transformation from a communications and print-related business into a global M&A SaaS technology company.
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