Junior PM for Workday Rollout & Cross-Functional Delivery

Accion Labs; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accion Labs is seeking a hands-on Project Manager to plan and execute a large Workday implementation. You will oversee day-to-day activities, manage risks, dependencies, and deliverables, and partner with senior leaders and vendors to keep the program moving forward.

The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of PM experience in complex enterprise SaaS projects and excels at coordinating multiple teams, managing meetings, and producing concise status updates for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of project management or closely related delivery experience.
• Experience supporting complex, cross-functional technology or enterprise SaaS implementations.
• Experience coordinating internal teams, external partners, and software vendors.
• Strong command of planning, scheduling, dependency management, status reporting, risk and issue management.
• Ability to synthesize complex project information into practical status updates and next steps.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical-path activities.
• Coordinate day-to-day project activities across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Security, Data, Change Management, and implementation-partner teams.
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision forums.
• Prepare agendas, capture decisions and action items, assign owners, and follow through to completion.
• Maintain project governance materials, status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, decision logs, and other project documentation.
• Track risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; elevate concerns with clear context and recommended next steps.
• Monitor workstream progress and proactively identify conflicts, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Support requirements, design, configuration, data conversion, integration, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization activities.
• Coordinate testing schedules, defect-management activities, readiness checkpoints, and deliverable reviews.
• Work closely with the Workday implementation partner and internal teams to align responsibilities, timelines, and acceptance criteria.
• Help functional and technical teams convert discussions into specific actions, owners, and deadlines.
• Support change-control processes and assess the impact of requested scope, schedule, or resource changes.
• Develop concise project communications for stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain organized, accessible project records and ensure that teams are working from current information.
• Promote consistent project-management practices without creating unnecessary administrative overhead.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Workday experience

Stakeholder communication

Risk & issue management

Meeting facilitation

Dependency management

Requirements coordination

Job description

Accion Labs is seeking a hands-on Project Manager to plan and execute a large Workday implementation. You will oversee day-to-day activities, manage risks, dependencies, and deliverables, and partner with senior leaders and vendors to keep the program moving forward.

The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of PM experience in complex enterprise SaaS projects and excels at coordinating multiple teams, managing meetings, and producing concise status updates for stakeholders.