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Junior Project Manager

Zion Cloud Solutions

 

Deerfield, IL, USA

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 3+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Junior Project Manager
Tenure: Full-time Only
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Description

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engagement and Needs Understanding

  • Work directly with customers to understand goals, needs, pain points, business processes, and project expectations.
  • Ask thoughtful questions, listen carefully, and document customer requirements, priorities, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Help translate customer needs into clear project tasks, action items, requirements, user stories, meeting notes, and delivery follow-ups.
  • Keep customers informed, engaged, and confident through clear communication, proactive follow-up, and professional meeting facilitation.

Scope Adherence and Delivery Discipline

  • Ensure project scope is clearly understood, documented, tracked, and protected throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Identify when customer requests may be outside the agreed scope and escalate appropriately to senior leadership or the project sponsor.
  • Maintain project plans, timelines, sprint boards, RAID logs, action item trackers, meeting minutes, scope trackers, and status reports.
  • Track risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, blockers, and escalations to ensure timely resolution.

AI, GCP, Cloud, and Technical Project Coordination

  • Coordinate AI, GCP, cloud, data, automation, and software delivery activities across ZCS technical teams and customer stakeholders.
  • Support Agile delivery by helping manage backlogs, user stories, sprint activities, acceptance criteria, demos, and deliverables.
  • Facilitate customer meetings, internal team meetings, standups, sprint reviews, planning sessions, demos, and status discussions.
  • Work with technical teams to understand delivery progress, upcoming decisions, dependencies, and customer impacts.

Documentation, Reporting, and Communication

  • Prepare clear customer-facing presentations, project dashboards, status reports, meeting summaries, and executive updates.
  • Support customer onboarding, discovery sessions, requirements workshops, training coordination, and change management activities.
  • Help ensure project documentation is accurate, current, organized, and easy for customers and technical teams to use.
  • Communicate with professionalism, confidence, and warmth in customer meetings, internal conversations, and written updates.

Learning, Growth, and Innovation

  • Continuously learn ZCS AI accelerators, GCP capabilities, cloud services, data platforms, and modern delivery methods.
  • Support proposal, demo, innovation, and internal solution development activities related to ZCS AI and cloud offerings.
  • Bring energy, curiosity, positivity, and a growth mindset to every project and customer interaction.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Project Management, Communications, or a related field.
  • 1 to 3 years of experience in project coordination, project management, business analysis, customer success, IT delivery, consulting, or technology project support.
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to listen, clarify, document, and follow through.
  • Ability to understand customer needs and convert them into organized project tasks and next steps.
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to scope adherence.
  • Basic understanding of Agile, Scrum, project delivery, or software development lifecycle concepts.
  • Interest in AI, GCP, cloud technology, data, automation, and digital transformation.
  • Comfort using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Planner, Smartsheet, Trello, Asana, or similar project management tools.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
  • Positive personality, strong work ethic, willingness to learn, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • U.S. Citizenship required due to federal/customer project requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting AI, GCP, cloud, data analytics, software development, automation, or digital transformation projects.
  • Familiarity with GCP services such as BigQuery, Vertex AI, Document AI, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, Looker, or related services.
  • Exposure to Generative AI, RAG, chatbots, AI agents, document processing, workflow automation, dashboards, or cloud-native applications.
  • Experience working with government, healthcare, financial services, or regulated customers.
  • Certifications such as Google Cloud Digital Leader, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, CAPM, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe Agilist, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, or similar.
  • Experience creating customer-facing presentations, project dashboards, status reports, or meeting summaries

Education

Bachelor's degree

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