Remote Senior Project Manager — AI-Driven Pursuit Lead

Maximus; Tysons (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a senior project manager to lead opportunities across the full pursuit lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams through readiness milestones. This fully remote role requires a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience, with hands-on management of complex pursuits and strong governance, reporting, and risk oversight.

You will employ AI-enabled tools to streamline coordination, track actions, and provide executive visibility, ensuring on-time delivery across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 7+ years of experience, or equivalent.
• Hands-on management of complex pursuits with multiple workstreams, governance routines, and executive visibility.
• Strong cross-functional coordination across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, sales, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage opportunities across the full pursuit lifecycle and lead cross-functional project teams through readiness milestones.
• Own integrated project plans, governance routines, milestone schedules, risk registers, action logs, and executive status reporting.
• Coordinate across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, proposal, sales, and internal stakeholders to maintain progress against pursuit timelines.
• Monitor schedule health, milestone readiness, unresolved actions, decision delays, and risk exposure across assigned opportunities.
• Escalate risks, issues, and decision needs with clear impacts, owners, timing, and recommended next steps.
• Promote practical use of approved AI-enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, automate routine coordination tasks, and strengthen visibility into action status, milestones, and risks.
• Run after-action reviews and translate lessons learned into pursuit management, governance, and tracking improvements.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Project management

Risk management

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PM software (MS Project/Workfront)

AI-enabled tools

Job description

Maximus is seeking a senior project manager to lead opportunities across the full pursuit lifecycle, coordinating cross-functional teams through readiness milestones. This fully remote role requires a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience, with hands-on management of complex pursuits and strong governance, reporting, and risk oversight.

You will employ AI-enabled tools to streamline coordination, track actions, and provide executive visibility, ensuring on-time delivery across multiple