Manager, Project Management

Coreforce; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid schedule

Chef-inspired lunch (Mon–Thu)

15 PTO days + floating holiday

401(k) matching and benefits

Annual bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Career growth

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Coreforce is seeking a Manager, Project Management to lead a team of Project Managers and Coordinators in Atlanta, GA. This hybrid role involves guiding complex, customer-facing projects from initiation to closeout and coordinating cross-functional delivery across Sales, Product, Engineering, Training, Support, and Finance.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a related field, a PMP, 3+ years of PM leadership experience, and strong communication and risk management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business/operations/tech/project management.
• PM certification (PMP) required or strongly preferred.
• 3+ years of progressive project management experience with complex customer-facing implementations.
• 2+ years of people leadership or coaching/directing project professionals.
• Strong project planning, risk/issue management, change control, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to coordinate technical and nontechnical teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven stakeholder management experience.
• Ability to perform in high-stress situations and maintain attention to detail.
• Conflict resolution skills.
• Presentation and public speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop Project Managers and Project Coordinators.
• Manage complex, high-priority projects from handoff through closeout.
• Allocate projects and balance workload based on scope, risk, timing, and capacity.
• Establish project standards, templates, reporting, and cadences.
• Define scope, milestones, owners, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead kickoff, status, readiness, risk, and closeout meetings.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Identify and elevate risks with recommended actions.
• Manage scope changes and document impacts on schedules, resources, costs, and commitments.
• Provide leadership with portfolio status, risks, and decisions required.
• Improve handoffs, accountability, and customer experience.

Skills

PMP certification

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Risk management

Coaching

Problem solving

Public speaking

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, operations, technology, or project management

Job description

Job DetailsJob Location: ATLANTA, GA 30324Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: 4 Year DegreeSalary Range: $130,000.00 - $145,000.00 Salary/yearTravel Percentage: NegligibleJob Shift: AnyJob Category: Business Development

Join Our Team as Manager, Project Management

Company: Coreforce

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Based on Experience

Company Overview: Coreforce is an innovative technology company providing public safety organizations a comprehensive technology suite from dispatch to the courtroom. Coreforce delivers integrated technology designed to support public safety entities, regardless of organizational size. Our products - body cameras, in-car videos, mobile routers, and digital evidence systems, help public safety officers and first responders save lives, strengthen community trust, and enhance accountability.

Manager, Project Management – Build Your Career with Purpose

Join Coreforce and use your project management skills to support innovative technology that strengthens communities.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Flexible hybrid schedule.
• Free chef-inspired lunch Monday–Thursday.
• 15 PTO days + floating holiday.
• Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k). We provide 401 (k) matching per the terms of the 401(k) plan.
• Annual bonus.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Career growth in a fast-growing, mission-driven company.
• Collaborative, purpose-driven culture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop Project Managers and Project Coordinator(s), including work allocation, performance management, and professional development.
• Personally manage complex, high-priority, or customer-facing projects from handoff through stabilization and closeout.
• Assign projects and balance team workload based on scope, complexity, risk, timing, and available capacity.
• Establish and maintain practical project standards, templates, reporting expectations, and operating cadences.
• Ensure projects have defined scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, acceptance criteria, and customer responsibilities.
• Lead customer kickoff, status, readiness, risk, and closeout meetings and document decisions and commitments.
• Coordinate delivery across Sales, Product, Engineering, Field Engineering, Training, Support, Client Success, Production, Warehouse, Finance, and other stakeholders.
• Identify and elevate customer, schedule, resource, technical, financial, and scope risks with recommended actions.
• Manage scope changes and document impacts on schedules, resources, costs, and customer commitments.
• Provide leadership with accurate portfolio status, resource needs, risks, recovery plans, and decisions required.
• Improve project handoffs, accountability, delivery predictability, and customer experience.
• Perform other related duties and operational initiatives as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly supervises Project Managers and Project Coordinator(s) and is accountable for work allocation, coaching, performance management, professional development, and team results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, technology, project management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• 3+ more years of progressive project management experience, including complex customer-facing implementations or operational projects.
• 2+ or more years of people leadership or demonstrated responsibility for coaching and directing project professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects directly while managing team performance, capacity, priorities, and escalations.
• Strong project planning, risk and issue management, change control, stakeholder communication, and executive reporting skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to coordinate technical and nontechnical teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to coach and mentor direct report staff.
• Advanced Problem-solving skills.
• Advanced client-facing soft skills, such as de-escalation and persuasion.
• Proven stakeholder management experience.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Ability to perform in high-stress situations.
• Acute attention to detail.
• Conflict resolution skills.
• Presentation and public speaking skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with public safety technology, SaaS, hardware/software implementations, field deployments, or government customers.
• Experience building or improving project management practices in a growing organization.
• PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, or another relevant agile or delivery credential.
• This is an Atlanta-based position with regular on-site presence is required. One remote workday per week may be available, subject to business, customer, project, and team needs.
• Occasional travel may be required based on customer and project needs.
• Must be available for on-site meetings and critical project events when business needs require it.

Coreforce is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.