Position: Project Manager
Location: San Mateo, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

Project Managers at Soliant Consulting serve a hybrid role: they act as our primary relationship managers with our clients and are responsible for managing both projects and teams.

This includes establishing the scope of projects; assembling and updating project budgets; assigning resources to projects; and keeping clients involved and informed. Key responsibilities include:

• Track project progress against stated objectives and to report to both clients and team members on project progress.
• Maintain records for the project, establish budgets for dollars and time, and take primary responsibility for setting client expectations.
• Find and manage adequate resources to assign to the project to maintain the project on its stated timelines and business objectives.
• Keep customers informed of progress.
• Follow-up on new business opportunities clients may have.
• Work with new and existing customers to effectively gather and document project requirements.
• Request, prepare, and issue all invoices.
• Potentially manage up to three or four direct reports.

• 4-year degree or equivalent; post-grad experience a plus.
• Unquestionably strong organizational discipline.
• Experience leading and documenting successful software projects in a consulting capacity.
• Ability to listen to problems, analyze information, and then make appropriate recommendations to clients.
• Understanding of the software development process – as appropriate for a varied size and range of projects.
• Experience with managing (medium to large) multi-person, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong computer skills – MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, MS PowerPoint.
• FileMaker Pro, SQL, or PHP familiarity.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong presentation skills.
• Experience and desire to work within a small company.
• Ability to meet with customers to gather and document project requirements and put together proposals that define the technical solutions, budgets, and  timelines necessary to meet client requirements.
• In-depth understanding of workflow, flow charts, and use cases, including how to use them effectively to define the project requirements.
• Experience and understanding of the estimating process – ability to track progress against a fixed budget.
• Either local or willing to relocate.
• Solid educational background.

We are a full-service consulting firm specializing in custom database software for workgroups. Our technology expertise includes FileMaker Pro, Adobe Flex, PHP, mySQL and SQL Server. Our teams help define efficient workflow processes, analyze deployment strategies, and provide common-sense perspectives on helping solve data system challenges. We provide services to a diverse group of clients including Apple, Citibank, Genentech, Walgreens, and the University of Chicago, among others.

Soliant Consulting offers a creative, flexible work environment where team members have regular, direct contact with clients. We are a dynamic, healthy, successful company and focus equally on both software development and client service. We work in teams, offer aggressive internal training opportunities, are large enough to have a reasonable support infrastructure but have definitely not lost our entrepreneurial drive. We offer a competitive salary and a generous benefit package that includes profit sharing, bonus plans, health care, and a 401K.

We have a passion for well-designed information systems, for building efficient applications, and, most of all, for solving real problems. Our culture is one of service, and our primary focus lies with helping craft excellent tools that make a difference for our clients.

If your goal is career growth in a team environment that values excellence and innovation, then please send your resume, salary requirements, and cover letter to:  jobs@soliantconsulting.com and enter "Project Manager" in the Subject line. No phone calls please. EOE.