R&D Project Manager

About SAS

About the Role

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Lead end-to-end project management across planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery.
• Manage multiple initiatives while meeting deadlines and quality expectations.
• Drive Agile project execution, continuous delivery, and CI/CD-oriented project teams.
• Influence without direct authority, drive consensus, and lead cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage project risks through identification, mitigation planning, escalation, and action closure.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, conflicts, negotiations, and presentations.
• Collaborate with local and global teams across different time zones.
• Hold PMP and CSM or equivalent certifications and complete Agile training.
• Use JIRA, Confluence, Cloud Jira environments, DevOps ecosystems, CI/CD pipelines, and project tracking tools.
• Manage budgeting processes and analyze budget performance is desirable.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support R&D engineering teams with deadline-driven, team-based projects and facilitate project objectives, goals, and requirements.
• Define project scope and goals with teams and stakeholders, then plan and adjust delivery schedules, scope, resourcing, and quality.
• Identify resource needs and coordinate domestic and international technical resources.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports.
• Coordinate team and stakeholder activities to keep projects on schedule, manage conflict, and mitigate risks.
• Manage project scope and expectations, identify dependencies and stakeholder influences, and negotiate high-risk areas.
• Use project methodologies, processes, tools, and best practices to accelerate delivery.