Project Risk Manager

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Building one of the world’s fastest-growing enterprise software companies requires a Growth Mindset, and Splunk’s People Team members embody this in everything we do. We encourage excellence, drive outstanding performance and work as a team to rise above constraints. We live Splunk values to build a world-class place to work.

Success in a steady and predictable business doesn’t translate to success at Splunk. We thrive in sophisticated networks and build connections internally and externally to deliver results today while looking ahead and planning for rapid, scalable growth. On the journey, we reap the rewards of working with a fun, diverse, distributed team of the best in the business, where everyone’s voice matters and ideas come to life.

The Role

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Product Strategy and Operations and provides project management services on behalf of the Product & Technology organization. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of assigned projects in strong partnership with a distributed team of highly skilled HR Business Partners. You bring well-developed project management skills, combined with a deep understanding of organizational change. You work hand in hand with key partners on people-focused projects that enable us to scale our business.

With both a strategic lens and passion for detail, you will support a diverse array of projects from origination through final implementation. Roles and responsibilities, key milestones, timelines, and communications will need to be coordinated and monitored to ensure successful delivery.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a motivated, organized self-starter, who is able to solve routine or complicated problems effectively, prioritize and drive multiple projects at once to successful completion. They will have proven experience in consulting, program management, business operations, or similar and demonstrated ability in the following areas of responsibility.

  • Passion for continuous improvement in the pursuit of operational excellence and finding creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Develop partnerships with HR Program and Project Management experts within the People team and across the organization.
  • Applies principles of change management to understand, forecast and manage the people impacts of transformational change initiatives.
  • Comfortable with authoring many types of documents, including agendas, action/project plans, and presentations. Strong skills with spreadsheets and a variety of data/information.
  • Enthusiasm for delivering excellence and exceptional attention to detail.
  • Develops options and recommendations to drive critical decisions.
  • Tracks costs and performance and other metrics required to ensure project goals and objectives are met.
  • Establishes processes and methodologies to ensure assigned projects are delivered on time, within budget, meet high quality standards using appropriate tools and data.
  • Serves as a resource to project leaders to educate and assist them with implementing project management processes and making improvements/changes.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, leadership capabilities, analytical skills, and presentation skills.
  • Manages confidential data to ensure meeting all required privacy requirements

Requirements:

  • BA/ BS Degree or equivalent years of experience
  • Project/change management education/certification or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years experience working in a program/project management capacity
  • The role can be remote within the US, primary business hours are in the Pacific Time Zone

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation. This is a remote position located in the US.

Thank you for your curiosity about Splunk.

(Colorado only*) Minimum base salary of $90,000.00. You may also be eligible for incentive pay + equity + benefits.*Note: Disclosure per sb19-085 (8-5-201 et seq).

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!

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