<p>We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager IT to join our team in Torrance, CA. This role is focused on leading IT projects related to customer-facing digital products, ensuring their successful delivery while fostering collaboration across various teams. As part of a long-term contract position, you will play a vital role in aligning project outcomes with business objectives and driving continuous improvement.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Job Description</strong></p><p>The IT Project Manager will lead assigned projects and enhancements to new or existing systems following standard SDLC methodology (Agile and Waterfall). Responsibilities include full lifecycle project management, stakeholder communication, technical coordination, and the delivery of customer‑facing digital products.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Manage project plans, staff tasks, assignments, and progress reporting.</li><li>Track dependencies, risks, and issues; provide timely mitigation plans.</li><li>Facilitate communication between business and IT stakeholders.</li><li>Review, refine, and validate complex business requirements; develop a clear and prioritized backlog.</li><li>Partner with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to review designs.</li><li>Oversee QA planning and execution; coordinate test schedules and timelines.</li><li>Schedule, coordinate, and chair meetings; distribute meeting minutes.</li><li>Create presentations and communication materials for various stakeholders.</li><li>Manage release cycles and post‑launch activities end‑to‑end; support production systems.</li><li>Monitor team performance and provide feedback to ensure transparency for Product Owners and executives.</li><li>Support delivery teams and/or Product Owners in story and task definition.</li><li>Lead continuous improvement through data‑driven Agile retrospectives.</li><li>Maintain accurate and updated team documentation and project artifacts.</li><li>Collaborate with the Product Owner on backlog definition, prioritization, and visibility.</li><li>Partner with developers, designers, QA engineers, and cross‑functional teams to deliver product features.</li><li>Collaborate with other project teams to remove impediments.</li><li>Support Product Owners in stakeholder meetings and solution development.</li></ul><p><strong>Scope of Work</strong></p><p>The Project Manager will work with digital and consumer‑focused applications, supporting Agile delivery and cross‑functional coordination across internal teams, consultants, and vendors.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What This Person Will Be Working On</strong></p><ul><li>Leading digital‑focused delivery teams aligned with departmental objectives.</li><li>Supporting Agile practices across customer‑facing digital applications.</li><li>Collaborating with IT teams, consultants, and vendors to define goals, backlogs, and roadmaps.</li><li>Managing one or more medium‑ to large‑scale, moderately to highly complex projects.</li><li>Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with high quality.</li><li>Creating project plans, assigning tasks, identifying resource needs, conducting quality reviews, and escalating issues as needed</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join our team in Southern California. In this long-term contract role, you will play a key part in analyzing business operations and facilitating digital transformation projects for the automotive industry. The position requires strong collaboration skills to work with diverse stakeholders and a solid ability to manage project deliverables and system enhancements following Agile and Waterfall methodologies.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Conduct detailed system and business analysis to support enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.</p><p>• Facilitate workshops, including data analysis sessions and workflow evaluations, to gather and refine business requirements.</p><p>• Develop and prioritize comprehensive backlogs by validating complex business needs and translating them into actionable plans.</p><p>• Coordinate and lead stakeholder meetings, including scheduling, documenting minutes, and ensuring follow-ups.</p><p>• Support production systems by troubleshooting issues and implementing necessary updates.</p><p>• Design and execute test cases for complex batch and online processes, ensuring system functionality and reliability.</p><p>• Prepare communication materials such as presentations tailored to diverse audiences, including business stakeholders.</p><p>• Collaborate with business units to identify opportunities for process automation and improvement.</p><p>• Assist project managers with planning tools and, occasionally, take ownership of smaller project plans.</p><p>• Conduct feasibility studies to evaluate the cost, efficiency, and technical viability of proposed solutions.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Informatica Cloud Data Governance Catalog Specialist to join our team in Southern California. This position involves working on-site four days per week and offers a long-term contract opportunity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data governance, analytics, and business intelligence tools, coupled with a proactive approach to problem-solving and collaboration.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Create catalog quality reports to monitor and enhance data governance metrics across domains and sub-domains.</p><p>• Develop and showcase data governance dashboards tailored to different user roles, including Data Owners, Stewards, Engineers, and Privacy Officers.</p><p>• Collaborate with business and IT teams, including data stewards, catalog architects, and platform owners, to implement governance solutions.</p><p>• Execute profiling, sampling, and scanner setups using Informatica tools to ensure data quality.</p><p>• Apply expertise in metadata management, data modeling, and large-scale data analysis to support governance initiatives.</p><p>• Design and implement both traditional relational and modern big-data architectures based on organizational requirements.</p><p>• Utilize business intelligence tools such as Power BI and Tableau to create actionable insights and reports.</p><p>• Define compliance procedures and produce audit reports to meet regulatory requirements.</p><p>• Establish and support governance councils and operational frameworks using data catalog tools.</p><p>• Facilitate metadata ingestion and ensure adherence to data security and quality standards.</p>
<p>Robert Half is partnering with a high end commercial litigation firm in lovely San Clemente, needing another associate attorney with 2-5 years of experience. However, this firm also has a sattelite office in Downtown Los Angeles, and this associate can sit there, too.</p><p><br></p><p>This attorney will be responsible for a variety of cases in different practice areas – from white collar criminal defense to trade secret litigation. The ideal candidate will be someone who wants to take ownership of projects and grow as a litigator.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Responsibilities: </u></strong></p><p>o Motions</p><p>o Briefs</p><p>o Discovery</p><p>o Meet & confer letters</p><p>o Depositions</p><p>o Trial prep/attendance (firm goes to trial 3-4x/year)</p><p>· Billables: 1800. Most associates bill just around that.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Pay is contingent upon fluency with the duties above, pedigree of firms worked at, and stability on resume.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Perks of Company</u></strong>:</p><p>· Multiple partners went to Ivy Leage law schools – Yale, NYU, Penn – or other strong UC schools.</p><p>· They bring in lunch Tuesday – Thursday.</p><p>· Casual dress (jeans and t-shirts are the norm).</p><p>· The level and type of cases are complex, sophisticated, with opportunity for high-profile litigation</p><p>· Mentorship from partners is better than at Big Law (“hey, come over here and watch this!”)</p><p>· Great benefits, from annual profit sharing to pet insurance.</p><p>· Strong tenure – their current GC started as a 4th year attorney and has been there for 15 years.</p>
