Project Manager

TekWissen LLC; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen LLC is seeking a Project Manager for an 8-month hybrid assignment in Irvine, CA. You will own sprint execution, delivery flow, backlog grooming, and release readiness while coordinating client, vendor, and offshore teams to meet commitments and address risks early.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products and is proficient with Jira and Confluence. You will establish and maintain delivery metrics, provide concise leadership reports, promote ownership

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products, eCommerce platforms, or customer-facing apps.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence workflows, reports, dashboards.
• Experience leading cross-vendor and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint execution, delivery flow, and release readiness.
• Drive backlog grooming, estimation, prioritization, and Definition of Ready compliance.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics, including velocity, throughput, capacity, and committed-versus-delivered performance.
• Lead execution across Client and vendor teams, ensuring commitments are met and risks are addressed early.
• Drive accountability with vendors and external partners through clear metrics, issue management, quality oversight, and escalation processes.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and release coordination.
• Produce concise status reporting for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Support the transition of delivery processes, reporting, and tooling from vendor-led to client-owned operations.
• Maintain Jira and Confluence standards, dashboards, workflows, and reporting.
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams.

Skills

Agile delivery

Ecommerce platforms

Vendor management

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Delivery metrics

Agile certs

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.

Job Title

Project Manager

Location

Irvine, CA

Duration

8 Months

Job Type

Temporary Assignment

Work Type

Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Own sprint execution, delivery flow, and release readiness.
• Drive backlog grooming, estimation, prioritization, and Definition of Ready compliance.
• Establish and maintain delivery metrics, including velocity, throughput, capacity, and committed-versus-delivered performance.
• Lead execution across Client and vendor teams, ensuring commitments are met and risks are addressed early.
• Drive accountability with vendors and external partners through clear metrics, issue management, quality oversight, and escalation processes.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and release coordination.
• Produce concise status reporting for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Support the transition of delivery processes, reporting, and tooling from vendor-led to client-owned operations.
• Maintain Jira and Confluence standards, dashboards, workflows, and reporting.
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years leading Agile delivery for digital products, eCommerce platforms, or customer-facing applications.
• Strong Jira and Confluence expertise, including workflows, boards, dashboards, reporting, and administration.
• Experience supporting eCommerce, B2B/B2C digital commerce, customer portals, order management, or transactional platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence third-party vendors, systems integrators, and offshore teams while maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to establish meaningful delivery metrics and drive data-based decisions.
• Agile certifications preferred (CSM, PSM, SAFe, etc.).
• Pharma, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Comfortable working with AI-assisted delivery and reporting tools.

Years of experience/education and/or certifications required:

• 10+

What are the top 3-5 skills requirements should this person have?

• Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects in a regulated technical, laboratory, pharmaceutical, medical device, manufacturing, or life sciences environment.
• Experience developing integrated schedules and managing project governance, meetings, action tracking, status reporting, and risks/issues.
• Strong communication, organization, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify critical paths and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery actions.
• Ability to work effectively with technical, quality, facilities/engineering, laboratory, procurement, IT, vendor, and senior stakeholder groups.

What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?

• Examples: Bachelor of Science; 4 year pharma, health care, or regulated industry
• PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience with laboratory construction, renovation, commissioning, qualification, validation, or operational readiness.
• Experience with complaint handling, product quality, laboratory testing, investigations, or post-market surveillance.
• Experience in GLP, GMP, or a similarly regulated environment.
• Familiarity with change control, quality systems, validation documentation, inspection/audit readiness, and geographically distributed teams.

First 90 Days

• Assume ownership of sprint execution, release coordination, and delivery reporting.
• Establish baseline delivery metrics and capacity planning.
• Improve backlog readiness and reduce execution bottlenecks.
• Increase visibility and accountability across client and vendor teams.
• Recommend and implement process improvements that improve delivery predictability while reducing unnecessary overhead.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.