What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Applications position at ClearpointCo.?
Title: Director of Applications
Location: Houston, Texas
Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $175,000 - $200,000
Summary:
The Commercial Applications Director will be primarily focused on leading and supporting Technology initiatives, either supported and developed internally or externally. This role will assist with requirements analysis, process documentation and user acceptance testing while working with internal IT or external vendor technology teams and firm-wide business users.
Duties:
- Understand critical business functions and work with business personnel to understand pain points
- Lead and support discovery meetings with cross-functional stakeholders to share ideas and findings
- Document results of discovery and requirements analysis
- Create opportunities for economies of scale
- Identify business process optimization and efficiencies
- Provide recommendations to Supervisor(s) on proper course of action for a given process using discovery findings as support
- Work with Supervisor(s) to determine what tools are best suited to produce solutions for the business need
- Evaluate existing technology solutions and support growth in tech stack offered and supported by BTG
- Where appropriate, use tools from the companies tech stack to produce solutions.
- Collaborate with Supervisor(s) on project management efforts
- Support development of project plans by using optimal methodology
- Update project plans and monitor project statuses
- Undertake appropriate actions to minimize risks and failures
- Assist in developing and implementing solutions, including user acceptance testing
Develop and review training material of deployed tools to enable business users to be self-sufficient
- Support product owners for implemented tools, systems, or processes
- Coordinate with stakeholders and Supervisor(s) to construct operational plan, scalable operating procedures and establish monitoring strategy
- Assist with change management to properly offboard to appropriate process owners
- Maintain and expand knowledge of current business technology initiatives to map business needs to those solutions
Requirements:
- 5 years of experience in event coordination/event administrative support, customer service, hospitality, or travel industry. Tech office environment preferred
- 10 years of experience assisting with implementing new technologies, including software testing and training
- 5 years in the Commercial Real Estate Industry
- 5 years of experience with CMMS tools and other property technology. PRISM experience preferred
- Strong ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical users
- Ability to execute change management while collaborating with key stakeholders across the firm
- Ability to create a project plan and manage it. Agile experience desired
- Knowledge of the following technology products/platforms: Jira, Microsoft, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Excel/Power Query, and flow chart software (Miro or similar); eagerness to learn new business technology tools to utilize as solutions or collaborate with IT to develop
- Ability to create technical writeups, summaries and reports using proper format, punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
- Working knowledge of the real estate industry and real estate technology
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders in a professional, courteous manner
- Unwavering commitment to integrity, the firm’s guiding principles and our leadership principles
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited institution is strongly preferred; Masters in Business Administration is a plus
PMP Certification preferred
Salary : $175,000 - $200,000