Google Cloud Project Manager

As a Google Cloud Project Manager at Insight, you will oversee engagements with our diverse client base as they migrate to and modernize on Google Cloud. You will lead the planning and coordination of engineering engagements alongside client stakeholders and a world-class team of cloud engineers. Your ability will help shape the direction of cloud-native deployment and drive measurable business value for our partners.

Insight is looking for communicative, energetic, and analytical leaders who thrive in fast-paced, teamwork-oriented environments. We are exploding with growth and opportunity; we seek individuals eager to take on ownership, learn new skills, and grow with Insight for the long term in a dynamic, service-oriented technical landscape.

Primary Duties Include:

• Project Lifecycle & Governance: Responsible for the full execution of client engagements, including program planning, resource management, change management, deployment, and daily project management activities.

• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain professional written and verbal communications with stakeholders (Insight, Google, and client) at all organizational levels-from C-suite through technical teams.

• PMO Collaboration: Work collaboratively with peers and leadership in the PMO for status updates, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests.

• Financial Accountability: Take on P&L responsibility to ensure scope is managed, change orders are tracked/quoted, and client payment schedules are met.

• Team Leadership: Lead and motivate project teams of engineers and technical stakeholders across disciplines (Infrastructure, Data, and AppDev).

• Expectation Management: Manage client expectations and provide exceptional delivery of critical systems and workstreams.

• Pre-Sales & Scoping: Partner with sales to understand project requirements, clarify conceptual needs for migrations, and help in the development of detailed project specifications.

• Continuous Improvement: Act as a change agent by helping Insight evolve the PMO Center of Excellence and implementing best practices and lessons learned.

• Operational Focus: Focus on the overall operation of client deployments and building documentation around processes and procedures for clients.

• Technical Coordination: Communicate technical and business requirements specifically with engineers, programmers, and designers.

• Estimation: Lead the estimation effort directly with engineers and change managers.

• Tooling Mastery: Use project management applications to build timelines, make assignments, and demonstrate project control to clients.

• Cloud Expertise: Experience in the cloud computing industry, with a focus on GCP or similar public cloud platforms.

• Professional Experience: Experience in a client-facing technical, engineering, or software development environment.

• Team Leadership: Proven experience leading and motivating teams of engineers and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality results.

• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both C-suite executives and technical teams.

• Methodology: Solid understanding of the SDLC and ability in facilitating Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Waterfall delivery methodologies.

• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and reasoning skills with a "no surprises" approach to identifying and mitigating project risks.

• Organization: Iron-clad organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

• Tooling: Adept with modern productivity and collaboration tools, including Jira, Smartsheets, Confluence, Slack, and presentation software.

• Adaptability: A positive, energetic attitude toward change and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, service-oriented technical landscape.

Expectations:

• Required Travel - Up to 25% dependent on client needs.
• Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.
• Training - Training will begin with a first-week orientation, followed by structured onboarding, specialized training, and introductions to active client work.

Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500 Solutions Integrator helping organizations accelerate transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology., We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there's a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years. We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988, and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, enthusiastic about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.