Salesforce Project Manager

Blue5Green, Inc.; Plainsboro Township (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue5Green, Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager to own end-to-end Salesforce delivery, coordinating business and technology stakeholders across initiatives in the United States.

You will drive scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies while maintaining governance and executive communication. Ideal candidates have strong Salesforce delivery experience, Agile proficiency, and a track record of managing complex programs and distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Strong Salesforce/CRM project delivery experience.
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum and SDLC.
• Proven stakeholder management, executive communication, governance and reporting.
• Excellent planning, estimation, budgeting, and resource management skills.
• Experience leading enterprise or complex integration programs; PMI/SAFe certs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery from initiation through production stabilization and handover.
• Maintain delivery plans, RAID logs, status reporting, and governance cadence.
• Lead Agile ceremonies including planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Salesforce Architects, Developers, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders.
• Manage distributed teams and align US onsite with offshore delivery.
• Ensure delivery meets quality, security, and governance standards.

Skills

Salesforce/CRM delivery

Agile/Scrum delivery

Stakeholder management

Planning & budgeting

Resource management

Dependency management

Enterprise integration programs

PM certifications (preferred)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

Smartsheet

Job description

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.

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.

Education

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