Metal Toad is a strategic AI partner. We help our customers to use AI to build the engines of their future growth, aligning AI’s capabilities with their most important business opportunities. We are an AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI partner.
Our team includes consultants, software engineers, devops engineers, UX designers, project managers, marketers, and supporting staff. It should go without saying, but everyone working at Metal Toad should be interested in the impact of AI, and believe in a human-first, AI-enabled future.
Metal Toad is a fully remote company that offers all team members the ability to work from home.
Although Metal Toad is a remote company, we are currently seeking contractors
residing in Brazil for this position. Compensation will be made in Reais (R$), following the local currency of the country where the position is located. Due to legal limitations, we are unable to sponsor any type of visa.
To apply for this position, please submit your resume in English as a PDF.
Job Description
As Project Manager, you will play a key role in guiding customers through successful implementation journeys, from project initiation through closure. You'll be the driving force behind keeping projects on track, on time, and within budget, while building strong relationships with clients and internal teams alike. You unblock and tackle developers and remove dependencies before they become a problem. You can identify risks, conceptualize multiple scenarios, and chart a path to success. You are goal-oriented, and you believe in continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Leadership
- Ensure project success
- Work closely with an agile development team throughout the entire project lifecycle
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including daily sprints, mid-sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Facilitate continuous improvements of the team and its processes using a servant leadership style
- Identify and resolve problems, questions, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions
- Track team velocity, health, and sprint progress, and surface risks to the appropriate stakeholders
- Own budgets, timelines, scope, and risks
- Act as the client’s primary contact on projects and radiate information and transparency.
- Provide high levels of client communication and customer service
- Take clear notes on action items and effectively disseminate information and tasks to the team
- Report weekly to the manager on project health (including budgets, schedules, and scope concerns)
- Report weekly/monthly status updates to clients
Qualifications Required
- Agree with our Corporate Values Statement.
- Believes in the company's mission: to help people.
- Believes in the principles of open source.
- Advanced to fluent English communication skills are essential for this role.
- 3+ years of experience in project management or other applicable roles.
- Direct work experience in the digital realm and knowledge of development project life cycles
- Direct work experience with a variety of software development methodologies and project management tools, i.e., SCRUM/Agile and Kanban.
Nice to Have
- Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Scrum certification (PSM).
Please note that Metal Toad will never ask for payment or financial information during the hiring process. If you are asked for such information, it is a scam. Report it immediately.
Skills Required
- Agreement with the company’s Corporate Values Statement
- Belief in the company’s mission to help people
- Belief in open-source principles
- Advanced to fluent English communication skills
- 3 or more years of experience in project management or applicable roles
- Direct experience in the digital realm and knowledge of software development project life cycles
- Experience with software development methodologies and project management tools, including Scrum, Agile, and Kanban
- Degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Scrum certification, such as PSM
What We Do
Metal Toad is a Cloud Partner who delivers AWS Machine Learning & Media Solutions. Not just an AWS managed services provider with a machine learning specialty, Metal Toad provides high quality consulting, development, application support, and managed services at an affordable rate via their hybrid onshore + nearshore North American & Brazilian team. We have helped develop award-winning consumer-facing applications for industry leaders like Sony, Daimler, Intel, the Golden Globes, Siemens Wind Power, ABC, NBC, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, & the Linux Foundation.
