Senior Project Manager, Professional Services

Veryon; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Veryon is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Professional Services in Chennai. You will lead complex, customer-facing implementation projects across our product portfolio from kickoff through go-live, ensuring on-time delivery within scope and budget while maintaining strong customer relationships.

You will also coach the onboarding team, help strengthen project management practices, and drive delivery efficiency across Professional Services, leveraging AI tools to improve planning, tracking,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on project management experience, preferably with complex customer-facing technology implementations.
• Proven track record managing multiple concurrent projects with high customer satisfaction.
• Experience managing scope, timelines, budgets, risks, resources, and change control.
• Strong communication skills for customers, executives and cross-functional teams.
• PMP or similar certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, customer-facing implementation projects across Tracking, Tracking+, and Diagnostics from kickoff through go-live.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to meet milestones and deliverables.
• Partner with Onboarding teams to ensure seamless transition from sales to implementation to steady-state adoption.
• Provide mentorship to onboarding team members on project management standards.
• Escalate significant risks and blockers to leadership when needed.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in PM

Communication

Education

PMP or similar certification

Tools

AI tools

PM software

Job description

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Senior Project Manager, Professional Services
Chennai, IN, IND Operations

Veryon is a global information services and software company that exists to make flying safer and more reliable. Our products help reduce operating costs, improve aircraft reliability, and support technical knowledge sharing and collaboration across general and business aviation, commercial aviation, military/defense, and OEM industries.

About Role

The Senior Project Manager — Professional Services is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading and executing complex, customer-facing implementation projects across Veryon’s product portfolio.

This role owns projects from kickoff through go-live, ensuring delivery stays on time, within scope and budget, while maintaining strong customer relationships and stakeholder alignment. The Senior Project Manager will manage internal and external resources, oversee project governance, and serve as the primary point of contact for project-related matters.

In addition to managing their own portfolio of projects, this role will provide coaching, guidance, and escalation support to the broader Onboarding team, helping strengthen project management practices and improve delivery efficiency across Professional Services.

Job Duties

End-to-End Implementation Delivery

• Lead complex, customer-facing implementation projects across Tracking, Tracking+, and Diagnostics from kickoff through go-live.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining delivery timelines, quality, scope, and customer satisfaction.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure project milestones and deliverables are achieved.
• Partner closely with Onboarding teams to ensure a seamless transition from sales to implementation to steady-state adoption.

Customer Relationship Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for project-related matters throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, stakeholders, and internal teams.
• Lead project kickoff meetings, status meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
• Proactively manage customer expectations, concerns, risks, and escalations.

Project Planning & Governance

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Conduct regular project status reviews to ensure alignment across customers and internal teams.
• Ensure projects are accurately scoped and delivered within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Maintain structured project governance and apply consistent project management methodologies.

Documentation & Change Control

• Maintain detailed project documentation, including meeting minutes, decisions, project plans, risks, issues, and change control records.
• Manage scope changes, change orders, and project modifications as they arise.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication across all project stakeholders.
• Own project resource allocation and coordination across internal teams.
• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks and potential delivery issues.
• Escalate significant risks, blockers, and customer concerns to the appropriate leadership stakeholders.
• Serve as a senior escalation point when projects require additional judgment or intervention.

Onboarding Partnership & Team Enablement

• Work closely with the Onboarding teams to align implementation delivery with the customer's broader journey.
• Coach and guide onboarding team members on project management standards, processes, and best practices.
• Provide mentorship and practical guidance even without formal people-management authority.
• Own weekly delegation of project work across the PM team and help ensure appropriate prioritization of resources.

AI-Enabled Project Management

• Incorporate AI tools into daily project management workflows to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Use AI to support activities such as project status tracking, documentation, planning, communication drafting, meeting preparation, and information synthesis.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI to improve Professional Services and Onboarding processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on project management experience, preferably managing complex customer-facing technology implementations.
• Proven track record of successfully managing multiple concurrent projects while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
• Experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, resources, and change control.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound decisions in live customer environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with customers, team members, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining productive customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or guiding other team members, preferably within an onboarding, implementation, or professional services environment.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to operate effectively as a senior individual contributor, leading through expertise, judgment, and credibility rather than formal authority.
• Strong proficiency with standard project management and collaboration tools.
• Intermediate to advanced hands-on experience using AI tools as part of daily professional workflows.
• Ability to provide timely and consistent project reporting to leadership, including timelines, risks, blockers, status, and outcomes.
• Direct aviation, aviation software, MRO, or related technical industry experience is strongly preferred.
• PMP or similar project management certification is preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Aviation or aviation software experience, particularly within MRO, aircraft maintenance, or related technical environments.
• Experience implementing enterprise SaaS or technology solutions.
• Experience working within a Professional Services, Customer Implementation, Onboarding, or Technology Consulting organization.
• Strong understanding of structured project management methodologies and governance practices.
• Experience coaching or mentoring project managers, onboarding specialists, or implementation professionals.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple cross-functional teams and global customers.
• Strong customer-facing presentation and executive communication skills.
• Experience identifying operational inefficiencies and implementing process improvements.
• Intermediate to advanced AI proficiency, with demonstrated use of AI to improve project planning, reporting, documentation, communication, and team productivity.
• PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification.

Our Core Values

Fueled by Customers – Customer success drives everything we do.

Win Together – Collaboration and teamwork are at the heart of our success.

Make It Happen – We take ownership and deliver results with urgency.

Innovate to Elevate – We embrace creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Notice of AI Use in Job Application Review

As part of our commitment in creating a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process we may use artificial intelligence (AI) to help our recruiting teams organize, summarize, and analyze information provided by candidates, including resumes, application responses, and other materials submitted during the application process.AI may be used to identify patterns, highlight relevant skills, and experience, and assist in comparing a candidate’s qualifications with the requirement of a specific role. These tools are to improve efficiency and consistency while supporting more informed hiring decisions, which will ultimately be made by the hiring team.