Initiative Manager

The successful Initiative Program Manager embraces new opportunities to discover, design, develop and launch to market homebuilder software products that are initiated from trending client requests and that solve real business problems. Emphasis on creating opportunities for our customers and Constellation Homebuilders Systems is a fundamental requirement for this unique position. 

The Initiative Program Manager is the bridge that spans our organization and is the hub for planning, communication, and software delivery results. Responsibilities include: 

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand their desires, obstacles, and business 

very well, and to serve as their representative in internal conversations 

• Working closely with senior management to convey and negotiate our product strategy, prepare all forms of project progress reports, and deliver presentations 

• Communicating and decoding information for stakeholders 

• Works closely with the development team on everything from high-level workflows and report layouts, to proof of concept code and user interfaces 

• Embraces a client driven application design and development process by immersing themselves in end-user real world environment and incorporating feedback that fosters a highly adopted industry solution 

• Works with quality assurance team to assist in building test strategies and results, 

• Creates design specs for development and documentation teams that will eventually be served to all stakeholders upon product release 

• Leading an Early Adopter program, hand-off meetings to internal teams, and implementations to customers 

• Caring deeply about user experiences, implementations, and the ongoing operational success that turns a product that customers need, into a product they want for life 

• Doing whatever it takes to make the product or service useful, exciting, and successful 

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS 

• Deep insight and contagious passion for software and their related business processes 

• Ability to translate product vision into action 

• Aptitude to understand others and make them feel understood 

• Ability to elicit and confirm requirements from stakeholders 

• Experience in CRM, Sales, or Homebuilding related software technologies a huge plus 

• Experience with developing, supporting, or managing software in a production environment 

• Understanding of software implementation strategies, with the skill to foster a high performing software delivery team 

• Skilled in establishing and tracking to delivery schedules 

• Experience in making their teams, products, and implementations successful 

• Careful attention to detail