Job Title: Atlas Project Manager
Supervisor: Chief Operating Officer
FLSA: Exempt
Work Location: Philadelphia
Company Summary
Aeris guides capital to good. We are a rating and information service in the impact investing field, which has grown from a small, boutique strategy to a more than $500 billion industry over the last decade. Impact investments, made by individuals and institutional investors, aim to address some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges as well as yield a financial return. Aeris provides information, analysis, assessments, ratings, and consulting services that help these investors understand the risks and capacity of managers to delivering promised impact. Our services bring accountability and transparency to impact investing.
Aeris was established in 2004, focusing first on analyzing and rating private community loan funds (CDFIs). These loan funds invest in real estate, women and minority-owned small businesses, and community facilities in socially and economically challenged communities throughout the United States. More recently, we began applying our services to the broader impact investment world.
In 2013, Aeris built a cloud-based platform to collect and manage the impact and financial information that supports our deep due diligence and monitoring activities. Today, we are developing that capability further to share with the broader investing field by offering a highly reliable software tool tailored to the unique needs of multiple users for the collection, management, and analysis of the impact and financial data of their investments.
The current platform, the Aeris Cloud, is a single-tenant software solution that supports (i) the upload of numeric and narrative data by fund managers; (ii) analysis of the data by Aeris’ team for the production of rating reports on the fund managers; and (iii) Aeris’ customers who download completed rating reports and data and analytics on rated fund managers. In 2019, we began converting the Aeris Cloud into a multi-tenant platform to offer a SaaS product called Atlas, which will support the data collection, analysis, aggregation, and visualization requirements of other users.
Position Summary and Essential Functions
Aeris is looking for a self-motivated, growth-minded, and detail-obsessed Technical Project Manager to join our small team. This person will fill a pivotal role at the confluence of Product Management and Engineering, to help launch an exciting new product. The right candidate is a seasoned project manager with agile experience who can manage the complete software delivery lifecycle using offshore development resources. Ideally the candidate will also have experience in the Financial Services Industry.
Major Responsibilities
- Work closely with leadership to understand new features, ensuring that they are effectively documented and communicated, efficiently shepherded through the engineering process, and thoroughly tested.
- Provide high level architectural guidance to development team to ensure the architecture stays aligned with the long-term product vision.
- Partner with QA to help suffuse quality and effective testing through every stage of the SDLC.
- Teach and model agile processes.
- Write and manage technical documentation.
- Identify gaps in the skills of offshore team and work with leadership to resolve.
- Anticipate and resolve risks and roadblocks to ensure projects are completed on time.
- Assist in other efforts related to the product, such as compliance audits.
Experience and Education
- Proven success as a project manager for software teams in B2B SaaS companies, budget management experience is a plus.
- Practical experience employing a variety of agile methodologies; teaching agile is a plus.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies and productivity tools.
- Experience managing offshore development teams.
- Software development experience is a plus, but not required.
- Experience with Cloud-based environments and deployment required
- Ideal candidate will have experience in the Financial Services industry
Knowledge, Skills, Responsibilities, and Physical Requirements
- Ability to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute multiple competing priorities with minimal oversight.
- Strong problem solving and organizational skills.
- Superior interpersonal skills, ability to work in teams, and ability to work well with diverse constituents.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences as well as with team members who do not speak English as a primary language.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality.
- No extraordinary physical requirements beyond ability to travel (20%) required.
Submission of Applications
Please send applications electronically to Helen Leung, Chief Operating Officer at [email protected]
To be considered, applications must include:
- A cover letter stating how your interest and relevant experience fit this opportunity, and
- A full resume or CV.
ADA/EOE
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