Project Manager

Planet Group; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 99.000 - 105.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Planet Group in Culver City, CA is seeking a Project Manager for a 6-month contract, hybrid schedule. The role involves coordinating multi-functional programs, aligning stakeholders, and driving delivery with a Fortune 500 client. The pay range is $72/hr to $76.10/hr DOE, with 40-hour weeks.

Responsibilities include shaping scope with leaders, turning ambiguous requests into concrete plans, and maintaining a centralized view of initiatives. Experience with AI tools and Airtable is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs or projects in a large organization with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear recommendations, plans and outcomes.
• Strong judgment, critical thinking and scope-change recommendations.

Aufgaben

• Partner with Growth Operations and leaders to clarify requests, define outcomes, and recommend scope and delivery approaches.
• Turn ambiguous asks into practical project briefs and plans with milestones and dependencies.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping to delivery, coordinating partners and resolving issues.
• Translate recommendations into actionable workstreams and drive follow-through on commitments.
• Maintain a consolidated view of active initiatives and provide visibility into priorities and decisions.

Kenntnisse

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Vendor coordination

AI tools & automation

Project planning

Requirements analysis

Tools

Airtable

Jobbeschreibung

Project Manager
Location:Culver City, CA (Hybrid)
Schedule : 40 hours
Duration:6months
Pay:$72/hr-$76.10/hrDOE

The Planet Groupis looking foraProject Managerto join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-months contract, working a hybrid schedule out of Culver City, CA.

Project Manager |Qualifications:

• Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs or projects in a large organization, including work with evolving requirements and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear recommendations, project plans, and delivered outcomes.
• Strong judgment and critical thinking, with the confidence to probe assumptions, clarify ownership, and recommend changes to scope or approach.
• Experience coordinating vendors or consultants, reviewing deliverables, and managing stakeholder feedback and approval processes.
• Strong program management and operational skills, including managing dependencies, risks, budgets, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and automation to improve project execution, reporting, analysis, or operational workflows, with appropriate review for accuracy and confidentiality.
• Experience building reusable processes and configuring project management or operational systems that improve visibility and reduce manual effort.
• Strong written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to summarize progress, frame decisions, and influence follow-through without direct authority.
• Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting executive-sponsored initiatives, business planning cycles, or leadership operating rhythms.
• Experience building and administering Airtable databases, interfaces, dashboards, and automations.
• Experience improving internal operations or establishing new program management practices.
• Experience partnering with change management teams on organizational or operating model initiatives
• Experience working at Apple or within a global technology organization.

Project Manager | Responsibilities:

• Partner with Growth Operations and leaders to clarify requests, define intended outcomes, and recommend scope, ownership, and delivery approaches.
• Turn ambiguous asks into practical project briefs and plans, identifying deliverables, owners, milestones, dependencies, and decisions needed.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping through delivery, coordinating partners, resolving execution issues, and escalating decisions that require leadership direction.
• Translate approved recommendations into actionable workstreams, establish accountable owners, and drive follow-through on agreed commitments.
• Maintain a consolidated view of active and upcoming initiatives, providing visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, and decisions needed.
• Identify recurring initiative types and develop practical playbooks, scoping templates, and review processes that clarify how this work is supported.
• Build and maintain a centralized vendor library capturing capabilities, costs, past engagements, deliverables, outcomes, and lessons learned.
• Use approved AI tools and automation to simplify project execution and capture reusable knowledge; apply lessons from completed projects to anticipate needs and improve future delivery.