Business Summary: 

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable our more than 350,000 enterprise and SMB customers to thrive in the Cloud Era/ A pioneer in the use of virtualization and automation technologies. Our team of 20,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide is committed to building a community where great people want to work long term by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, collaboration, active learning and giving back. If you are ready to accelerate, innovate and lead, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today. 

This role will sit in VMware's Security Business Unit, VMware Carbon Black; a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection dedicated to keeping the world safe from cyber-attacks. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud consolidates endpoint protection and IT operations into an endpoint protection platform (EPP) that prevents advanced threats, provides actionable insight and enables businesses of all sizes to simplify operations.

Job Role and Responsibilities: 

The Engagement Manager leads the project team to ensure successful customer implementations of VMware Carbon Black’s solutions. The implementations include organizational and operational work streams along with the technology deployment.  The Engagement Manager also provides input and maintains project management documentation as it relates to project delivery. The implementation effort includes oversight of organizational and operational work streams and the technology deployment.  The Engagement Manager provides input and maintains project management documentation.  

The Engagement Manager is comfortable living in the customer’s realm as well as building a partnership with cross-functional groups throughout VMware Carbon Black.   Having a strong drive to help customers achieve their goals and maintaining a positive attitude are essential to success in this role.  The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of the service-oriented nature of this position and knowledge of information security technologies and related best practices in their use. The Engagement Manager may be responsible for supporting internal projects to progress the project management discipline within VMware Carbon Black.  These may include support for developing an internal project management methodology, templates and tools as well as mentoring and training other VMware Carbon Black consultants. Strong candidates will have a full understanding of the service-oriented nature of the position and solid knowledge of cyber-security and information technology in general.   

• Provide project management for VMware Carbon Black’s Professional Services engagements
• Manage a portfolio of 150+ implementation projects
• Work closely with customer Project Managers and/or Technical Leads to document success criteria, project milestones, action items, and issues
• Adapt project management approach depending on customer needs
• Think strategically about customer success
• Create and maintain all project artifacts including project plans, issue logs, status reports, and meeting notes
• Identify dependencies and integrate into work breakdown structures and project plans
• Communicate effectively at both the executive and project level to ensure consistent communication related to the status of a given implementation project
• Provide status reporting at both a project team and executive level
• Manage and report on project hours and budget
• Manage projects to scope and terms
• Work closely with customer project team to solve implementation issues
• Work with VMware Carbon Black Sales, Technical Support, Customer Success and Engineering teams to ensure customer issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Drive action items to resolution with speed and quality
• Foresee risk and implement mitigation strategies
• Responsible for contributing to the maintenance of best practices and methodology documentation
• Model VMware Carbon Black core values: Execution, Passion, Integrity, Customers, Community

Required Skills:

• A strong desire for customer success and a positive demeanor
• A focus on getting customers value as quickly as possible in their day-to-day use of our products
• Knowledge of cyber-security technologies & best practices
• Strong knowledge of the information technology landscape and related best practices for the management of related tools
• Familiarity with macOS, Windows and Linux operating systems as well as software deployment tools and techniques
• An understanding of IT and cyber-security policies and procedures, including change management
• Familiarity with ITIL, patch management, configuration management, auditing/compliance, malware/forensics, and incident response tools

Preferred Skills:

• 5-10 years field project management consulting experience
• Proven ability to lead a technical services project team
• Skilled in virtual meeting facilitation
• Ability to translate customer needs into technical, operational and organization solutions and recommendations
• Ability to manage a large portfolio of active engagements
• Highly motivated
• Possess strong communication, organizational, facilitation, presentation, and writing skills
• PMP (desired) or equivalent work experience in project management
• Experience with multiple operating systems, security policies and terminology
• Knowledge of management and configuration of enterprise IT infrastructure preferred
• Knowledge of IT security technologies and best practices preferred
• Experience in using ChangePoint, Salesforce, Smartsheets, Clarizen desired
• Cybersecurity experience a plus
• Help desk or ITIL service management a plus

Travel: Ability to travel up to 10%

This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by VMware.

Category : Services and Consulting
Subcategory: Engagement Management
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Work From Home: Yes
Posted Date: 2020-02-24

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