Project Manager – Salesforce

Blue5Green; Plainsboro Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue5Green is seeking a Salesforce-focused Project Manager in Plainsboro, NJ to own end-to-end delivery of integration and transformation initiatives. You will be the primary interface for business and technology stakeholders, driving scope, schedule, budget, risks, and governance while ensuring predictable outcomes.

You will coordinate with distributed teams, provide clear executive communication, and ensure adherence to quality and security standards.

Qualifications

• Strong Salesforce/CRM project delivery experience with enterprise capabilities preferred.
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery and SDLC.
• Proven stakeholder management, executive communication, governance, risk management, and delivery reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own project delivery from initiation through production stabilization, including scope, schedule, budget, milestones, dependencies and risks.
• Establish and maintain delivery plans, sprint/release plans, RAID logs, status reporting, and governance cadence.
• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies including planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog coordination, and release readiness.
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Salesforce Architects, Technical Leads, developers, QA, DevOps, and client stakeholders.

Skills

Salesforce delivery

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Planning & budgeting

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

Smartsheet

Job description

Plainsboro, United States

Own end-to-end delivery of Salesforce engineering and transformation initiatives. The Project Manager will be the primary delivery interface for business and technology stakeholders, driving scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, team coordination, governance, and predictable outcomes. This role requires exceptional communication and strong executive presence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own project delivery from initiation through production stabilization, including scope, schedule, budget, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and resources.
• Establish and maintain delivery plans, sprint/release plans, RAID logs, status reporting, and governance cadence.
• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies including planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog coordination, and release readiness activities.
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Salesforce Architects, Technical Leads, developers, QA, DevOps, and client stakeholders.
• Manage distributed teams and coordinate onsite/U.S. stakeholders with offshore delivery teams where applicable.
• Provide clear and concise executive and stakeholder communication, including delivery health, risks, decisions required, and recovery plans.
• Drive dependency management and proactively remove delivery blockers.
• Coordinate UAT, release planning, deployment readiness, production cutover, and post-production stabilization.
• Ensure delivery follows agreed quality, security, compliance, change-management, and governance standards.
• Manage scope changes and ensure impacts to cost, timeline, resources, and quality are clearly communicated and approved.
• Use Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent delivery tools effectively.
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, estimation, planning, communication, and team execution.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong Salesforce/CRM project delivery experience. Experience with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, or other enterprise Salesforce capabilities is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery and software development lifecycle.
• Proven experience in stakeholder management, executive communication, governance, risk management, and delivery reporting.
• Strong planning, estimation, budgeting, resource management, and dependency-management skills.
• Experience managing enterprise or complex integration programs is preferred.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe, or equivalent certification is preferred.
• Salesforce certification is a plus.

Core Expectations

• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to communicate clearly with U.S.-based business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills across business, product, architecture, development, QA, DevOps, and delivery teams.
• Professional, proactive, and accountable approach to delivery, issue resolution, and stakeholder commitments.
• Ability to work as a U.S.-based FTE and meet the client's required onsite working model.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline is preferred. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.