Data Project Manager — End-to-End Delivery Lead

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual performance bonus structure

Generous equity grant vested over 4 y

Up to $15k Relocation bonus

$10K housing bonus (if you live within

$1.5K monthly stipend for meals

Free Equinox membership

$200 monthly laundry reimbursement

$200 monthly personal wellness reimbur

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Job summary

Mercor is hiring a Project Manager for the Data team in San Francisco. You will own the end-to-end execution of data initiatives, coordinating across data engineering, analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery on time, within budget, and with high quality.

The role emphasizes leadership, stakeholder management, and scalable process improvement. You’ll drive requirements, scoping, readiness reviews, and milestone tracking, while maintaining project docs, budgets, and

Qualifications

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments (engineering, data science, leadership, legal, finance).
• Superb attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Comfortable driving process improvement and proposing more efficient ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project management for data initiatives, including intake and scoping, requirements gathering, readiness reviews, cross-functional approvals, and launch/post-launch handoff.
• Take direct responsibility for successful execution of projects, including meeting goals, client service, quality, resource utilization, and profitability.
• Lead, motivate, and build a strong team environment for project contributors and outcomes.
• Partner with team leads to vet, scope, and kickoff assignments, and own all due dates and milestones.
• Develop and maintain accurate project documentation, including timelines, budgets, and scoping documents.
• Lead communications and change management across the project lifecycle and ensure stakeholders receive timely information.
• Serve as the primary coordination point across Data Engineering, Analytics, Legal, Finance, etc.
• Anticipate and manage downstream implications of project decisions; surface dependencies and resolve blockers.
• Build and improve infrastructure for scalable data project delivery (templates, SOPs, playbooks, retrospectives).
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders to promote trust and future opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Mercor is hiring a Project Manager for the Data team in San Francisco. You will own the end-to-end execution of data initiatives, coordinating across data engineering, analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery on time, within budget, and with high quality.

The role emphasizes leadership, stakeholder management, and scalable process improvement. You’ll drive requirements, scoping, readiness reviews, and milestone tracking, while maintaining project docs, budgets, and