Project Manager - GIS

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San Antonio, TX
75K-150K Annually
Senior level
Other • Software • Analytics
The Role
The Project Manager will lead IT-based and GIS projects, engaging stakeholders in opportunity and proposal development, managing project teams, and ensuring successful project delivery. Responsibilities include overseeing project scope, collaborating with consultants, and advising customers on innovative GIS solutions.
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Overview

Leverage your consulting and project management expertise to win opportunities and deliver high-quality technical consulting engagements for Esri customers. In this role, you will lead teams through all business development and implementation phases, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, build/configuration, and deployment. By collaborating closely with industry experts across the company, you will play a pivotal role in enabling customer success. 

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for: 

  • Engaging with key stakeholders on opportunity development, proposal development, and project execution while managing expectations 
  • Implementing project scope through the coordination of professional services subject matter experts, and our customers 
  • Managing project teams comprised of consultants and technical staff dedicated to supporting customers and their mission-critical systems and applications 

Responsibilities

  • Manage complex technology projects and programs: Coordinate with Esri consultants to deliver projects on time and within budget, ensuring customer success. Oversee scope, schedule, and budget to deliver meaningful solutions to customers and strategic partners. 
  • Engage with our customers:  Work with customers to understand the value of location within their workflows by creating outstanding proposals and winning work with strategic customers. 
  • Develop and grow business: Support business development by defining project and proposal strategies that further technology and implementation patterns with new and existing customers. Collaborate with Esri’s practice managers and marketing and sales teams to develop new business and actively shape the future of the Delivery Department through your work on cutting-edge projects. 
  • Be a thought leader: Advise customers regarding innovative solutions using Esri technology and content to drive better decision-making. Recommend relevant strategies, architectures, and solutions and work with customers to prepare implementation and migration strategies. 

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in managing IT-based and/or GIS projects 
  • Capacity to clearly communicate complex ideas, whether to technical peers, non-technical peers, or customers 
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and translate a customer’s business goals, objectives, and strategies into technical plans and solutions 
  • Be a self-motivated, creative, team-oriented, and proactive problem solver 
  • Exceptional interpersonal, written/verbal communication, multi-tasking, and presentation skills 
  • Entrepreneurial attitude and willingness to learn 
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic cross-functional team environment 
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% of the time 
  • Bachelor’s in geography, computer science, GIS, or a related field 

Recommended Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience in GIS project management 
  • Knowledge of and experience with technical solutions and implementations and/or robust application development principles and practices 
  • Experience with ArcGIS, location-based services, geo-enabled apps, spatial analytics, or similar geospatial technology 
  • Experience with current technology implementation patterns, including service-oriented and cloud-computing architecture 
  • Relevant industry experience in commercial natural resources (oil and gas, renewables, pipeline, mining, agriculture, and forestry), airports, or state and local government 
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification  
  • Master’s in geography, computer science, GIS, or a related field

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Total Rewards

Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is

$74,880$150,280 USD

The Company

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri’s Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.

If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

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The Company
HQ: Redlands, CA
5,436 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1969

What We Do

As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location.

We pioneer problem solving with GIS to help you see what others can’t.

We build ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping & spatial analytics software. ArcGIS software and apps combine mapping and data analytics to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organizations of all sizes.

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