Project Manager

Digimarc; United States; On-site; USD 118,400 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units

Flexible Paid Time Off & Holidays

Life Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Training & Development

Job summary

Digimarc is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex program executions. You will coordinate multiple stakeholders, manage project plans, and maintain alignment on timelines.

The ideal candidate has 3–7 years of relevant experience and will support risk management and stakeholder communication to ensure high-quality delivery.

This role offers competitive compensation and benefits, including Restricted Stock Units and flexible paid time off.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years in program management, project management, operations, or similar roles.
• Strong program planning skills and experience in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end execution of complex, multi-stakeholder programs.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans across teams and partners.
• Track progress against plan and ensure clear ownership.
• Manage customer requests from intake to delivery.

Skills

Strong project and program management discipline

Excellent organizational and follow-through capabilities

Clear and concise communication (written and verbal)

Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities simultaneously

Strong attention to detail

Job description

Digimarc (NASDAQ: DMRC) is building the trust layer for the modern world. As AI accelerates how we produce, share, and interact with the world, the risks of fraud, counterfeiting, and misinformation are growing exponentially. Our innovative, highly scalable, and ultra‑secure solutions make it possible for consumers, businesses, and intelligent systems to instantly verify what’s real, protect what matters, and transact with confidence. Digimarc’s solutions for loss prevention, authentication, and digital are built to counter the speed and sophistication of today’s AI‑enabled threats. Trusted by the world’s central banks to deter the counterfeiting of global currency, we exist to protect truth in every interaction, spanning both the physical and digital worlds.

Job Overview

The Project Manager will drive end‑to‑end execution of complex, multi‑stakeholder programs spanning internal teams, external partners, and customers. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Strategy & Operations, the role is responsible for building and managing integrated project plans, ensuring alignment on timelines, deliverables, and ownership across all parties.

This individual serves as a central point of coordination, leading communication, meeting cadences, and cross‑functional collaboration to keep programs on track. They proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, and drive resolution of issues that could impact timelines or outcomes. The role requires strong operational rigor, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while maintaining momentum across multiple parallel workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed project plans across internal teams and external partners and customers.
• Ensure alignment on milestones, timelines, owners, and deliverables.
• Track progress against plan and ensure all actions have clear ownership and due dates.
• Maintain a single, integrated view of program status across all parties.
• Manage pilot lifecycle, including planning, kickoff, execution, and closeout.
• Support post‑pilot follow‑up by tracking outcomes, capturing learnings, and coordinating next steps.
• Serve as a key point of coordination and manage ongoing communication, ensuring alignment between external parties and internal teams.
• Coordinate working sessions, follow‑ups, and cross‑party dependencies.
• Track external commitments and ensure progress against agreed timelines.
• Manage customer requests end‑to‑end, including intake, prioritization, timeline definition, and cross‑functional coordination to ensure timely and high‑quality delivery.
• Establish and manage meeting cadence across stakeholders.
• Facilitate working sessions, capture notes, action items, and follow‑ups.
• Ensure questions are resolved and decisions are documented.
• Reinforce accountability across all participants.
• Identify and track risks, delays, and sequencing conflicts across parties.
• Surface issues early and clearly communicate impacts to leadership.
• Drive mitigation planning and ensure actions are tracked to resolution.
• Escalate when external constraints impact critical path or revenue timelines.
• Ensure external timelines align with internal commercial and delivery milestones.
• Identify gaps in ownership or unclear expectations and drive clarity.
• Coordinate across Product, Sales, Operations, and external stakeholders.
• Manage program‑related logistics, including NDAs and documentation, facility visits and coordination, conference and partner meeting logistics.
• Ensure all required documentation is completed and tracked.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years in program management, project management, operations, or similar roles.
• Strong program planning skills, including building integrated project plans, dependency mapping, and critical path management.
• Experience driving execution in ambiguous, fast‑paced environments with competing priorities.
• Experience leading cross‑functional technical initiatives across hardware, partner integrations, and dashboard reporting is a plus.
• Experience in SaaS, retail, or multi‑party ecosystem environments is a plus.

Skills

• Strong project and program management discipline.
• Excellent organizational and follow‑through capabilities.
• Clear and concise communication (written and verbal).
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to track complex dependencies.
• Thrives in ambiguity.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units.
• Flexible Paid Time Off & Holidays.
• Life Insurance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Training & Development.

Compensation

$118,400 - $148,000 a year. This range accounts for factors such as skill set, experience, training, licensure, certifications, geography, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Digimarc is committed to diversity, professional development, and the success of its employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected factor. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.