Project Manager

Candescent

$80K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Atlanta, GA
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of customer-facing project coordination experience
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Familiarity with Smartsheet or similar project management tools
  • Quick to learn financial services concepts
  • Ability to grasp integration and extensibility technologies
  • Solid problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities
  • Strong organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of Fintech Ecosystem projects with proactive timeline management
  • Establish and update integrations like SAML SSO and OIDC SSO as portfolio expands
  • Engage with the Marketplace onboarding lifecycle to assess project readiness
  • Collaborate with QA resources to remain informed on integration technologies
  • Recommend and draft refinements to improve project workflows
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage project dependencies
  • Utilize AI tools to enhance project efficiency and predictive accuracy

Benefits

  • Collaborative and inclusive team environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development
  • Exposure to cutting-edge Fintech and integration technologies
  • Access to AI tools for project management and improvement
  • Chance to impact end-user experience in the financial services industry
Full Job Description
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables

What you will be responsible for and what you will do

  • Drive end-to-end Fintech Ecosystem project execution, proactively managing timelines, risk, documentation, and stakeholder (TPV/Candescent) alignment through status calls, project plans, dashboards, notes, and overall status summaries.
  • Establish and update integrations including: SAML SSO, OIDC SSO, Aspects, Image Services, and other standard integration types as our portfolio of supported integrations expands
  • Engage with Marketplace onboarding lifecycle and understand how each phase (Apply, Assess, etc) impacts project readiness and timelines.
  • Collaborate with integration QA resources to stay up to date on integration and extensibility technologies and best practices.
  • Continuous Process Improvement: recommend and draft refinements to templates, documentation, and project workflows to improve consistency, efficiency, and TPV experience.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to track project dependencies and escalate when timeline impact or risk of impact arises
  • Use AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, predictive accuracy, and quality


Qualifications and Experience

Demonstrated skills, competencies, and required experiences

  • Proven cross-functional, end-to-end coordination skills for customer-facing project work where general process is documented, requiring documentation of scope, status and blockers.
  • Excellent verbal/written communication and influencing skills as well as effective listening skills
  • Experience with Smartsheet or equivalent project management tools
  • Ability to quickly learn basic concepts related to the financial services industry
  • Ability to quickly learn integration and extensibility concepts
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent organizational skills


Preferred Distinctions

Additional Accomplishments

  • Experience in a SaaS or Fintech project role is preferred but not required.
  • Exposure to SSO technologies (SAML, OIDC) is a plus.
  • Exposure to mechanisms to curate end-user digital content (user groups, iframes, higher and lower environments) is a plus.

Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.

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