Project Director - 705

Recutify Inc.; Edmonton; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talantir is seeking a Project Director to lead large, enterprise-scale programs, guiding delivery with agile methods and strong governance. The role requires senior leadership in defining scope, roadmaps, and business cases, while coordinating across stakeholders and managing program-level risks and budgets.

The position is remote with Canada as the primary market, offering a 12-month term with potential extension. Strong strategic and financial oversight skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large enterprise-scale projects and programs.
• Experience with agile software development and modern service design based product delivery at scale.
• Senior leadership defining project scope, goals and deliverables with governance and business cases.
• Program management across a portfolio with governance, prioritization and reporting at program level.
• Experience identifying and managing risks on large, complex projects.
• Experience managing project finances including budgeting and forecasting.
• Ability to coordinate and communicate with stakeholders including external/public users.
• Senior leadership in complex IT environments with cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience creating project schedules, estimating resources and monitoring work plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale projects and programs from initiation to delivery.
• Apply agile and service design principles to program delivery at scale.
• Define roadmaps, governance, briefing notes, and business cases with stakeholders.
• Provide program-level governance, prioritization and reporting.
• Identify, analyze and mitigate risks on large programs.
• Oversee budgeting, forecasts and financial controls for projects.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external stakeholders to align on outcomes.
• Set and communicate program goals with business stakeholders and sponsors.

Skills

Enterprise projects

Agile delivery

Program management

Risk management

Budgeting & forecasts

Stakeholder management

Leadership

IT governance

Job description

Title: Project Director

Duration: 2025-11-03 to 2027-03-31 (12 Months possible extension)

Location: Remote/Canada

Closing Date: 2025-10-06 Maximum Submissions: 3

• Experience leading large enterprise-scale projects and programs.
• Experience working on agile software development and modern, service design based product delivery comparable in size and complexity for a large organization such as state, provincial, or federal government or a private company with 5,000 or more employees or for a startup or small business addressing a complex challenge at scale.
• Senior leadership experience defining project scope, goals and deliverables such as roadmaps, governance, briefing notes, and business cases that support project goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Experience as Program Manager managing a portfolio of projects by providing governance, prioritizing, monitoring, reporting at a Program level.
• Experience identifying, analyzing and managing project risks on large, complex projects.
• Experience in managing project/program financials such as budgeting and forecasts.
• Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity
• Experience supporting and collaborating directly with stakeholders, external (public users) and internal business areas. Ability to co-ordinate and communicate necessary information well to all clients.
• Senior leadership experience defining program goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Senior leadership experience within a complex, business and technical IT environment.
• Experience in developing project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans for completion of project tasks.