Why Valence?

Valence is a digital strategy, design, and engineering firm that is centered on the client experience and informed by the future. We help businesses navigate their digital journey to unleash opportunity.

Valence has been named as one of the best places to work by the Puget Sound Business Journal every year since we were founded and has been recognized as one of the fastest growing businesses on the East Side.

Do you value quality, innovation, creativity, passion, collaboration, and growth?

We offer flexible options to work from home in select states or collaborate with your team at our Bellevue, WA office. Our culture is about continuous learning, direct communication, open doors, mutual respect at all levels, promoting innovation, and embracing creative ideas from everyone. At every phase of employment, we want our employees to feel seen and heard even before joining our team.

We offer fully paid medical benefits for employees and their families, 401(k) match, generous PTO, flexible work schedules, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and plenty of company and team connection events.

Valence is a dynamic place to build your career, innovate and learn. Come join us – let’s build potential together!

Project & Position Overview:

Valence is looking for a Technical Project Manager to work with one of clients on an exciting piece of digital transformation delivering some of the best-in-class products to market. You will be working on delivering industry changing IoT product experiences for our client's customers. This position will interact with our client's mobile software engineering, hardware, platform, and other key internal stakeholders to define and deliver strategic programs & products. 

As a trusted resource our client will be looking for you also lead alignment and technical delivery of companywide initiatives and support the overall product portfolio strategy. This is a great role for those who enjoy working with cutting edge product development and teams who are always looking to progress in technology, efficiency, and scale.

In this role, you will:

• Lead iterative delivery of cross-functional initiatives (for app and platform components) from concept to launch, through focus on transparency, communication, visibility and accountability

• Work closely with Engineering, Design, and Product to deliver products customers love

• Own communication for technical delivery across these projects with senior leadership and across partner organizations

• Anticipate bottlenecks and balance business needs versus technical constraints to move products forward quickly

• Work with development teams to ensure proper status reporting and lifecycle evolution of in-flight products

• Bring deep technical and software expertise, strong project management skills, good judgment and the ability to work in a fast-moving environment

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 6 years of complex project management experience
• Proven ability to create complex, cross-functional workplans with both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience with Azure Services 
• Experience coordinating release schedules
• Executive presence with the ability to communicate succinctly; ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical individuals
• Natural leadership skills and lead by example 
• Ability to effectively identify and mitigate technical and non-technical program risks
• Experience working in a fast-paced matrix technical organization; understanding of working in a start-up environment driving clarity to often ambiguous work
• Solid understanding and experiences in adopting Agile practices with product teams (Scrum, Kanban, or others)
• Passion for technology and customer-led design
• Proven problem-solving skills and proven organizational skills
• Nice-to-have: Experience delivering consumer electronics and IoT devices

Things to keep in mind:

• You are authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
• Must live in the following US States: WA, OR, ID, TX, CO, AZ, IL, SC, GA, NJ

What we Offer:

• Fully paid medical/dental/vision benefits for you and your family
• 401(k)-fully vested immediately, with match up to 4% of salary contributions
• 19 days of PTO, plus 11 paid holidays
• Flexible work schedules and telecommute options
• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave.
• Flexible Spending Plan for dependent care and health care
• Company paid short & long-term disability and Life/AD&D Insurance.
• Numerous company and team building events
• Innovative work culture with chatbot HR tools and our own Valence crypto currency

What will make you successful at Valence? 
You have a passion for innovation and technology. You have a sense of humor. You believe in the potential in everyone. You are ego-free. You're collaborative and value a work culture where great ideas can come from anyone.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.