Salesforce Project Manager

Red Cedar Consultancy; Randolph Air Force Base (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Cedar Consultancy seeks a Salesforce Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of sustainment, enhancement, and modernization initiatives for Salesforce. Remote work option available, serving defense/government contracts.

The role requires managing cross-functional teams, overseeing requirements and releases, addressing risks, and coordinating phased transitions while maintaining operational continuity.

Qualifications

• PMI- or PMP-certified project manager preferred.
• Salesforce Platform Administrator certification required.
• Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Consultant certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Salesforce initiatives through planning, requirements, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Support government leadership in managing project scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, and delivery performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to document, validate, and prioritize requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate cross-functional and multi-vendor teams supporting development, integration, data, security, testing, training, and production operations.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage the product backlog, and monitor sprint capacity, milestones, and release readiness.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies involving Salesforce configuration, integrations, environments, data, and deployments.
• Provide clear project status, performance metrics, risks, decisions, and required actions to government and program stakeholders.
• Support change control, phased transitions, user adoption, documentation, and knowledge-transfer activities.
• Track Salesforce licenses, utilization, renewals, and projected requirements in coordination with government and vendor stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery activities align with applicable federal and DoD security, compliance, accessibility, and reporting requirements.

Skills

Project management

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Vendor coordination

Tools

Salesforce

DevOps

Jira

Job description

Job Title: Salesforce Project Manager

Location: Remote

Summary: The Salesforce Project Manager will lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of Salesforce sustainment, enhancement, and modernization initiatives. This role will manage cross-functional teams, oversee requirements and release activities, address risks and dependencies, and coordinate phased transitions while maintaining operational continuity. The Project Manager will work closely with customer stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to improve system capabilities, data insights, user experience, and long-term platform performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Salesforce initiatives through planning, requirements, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment.
• Support government leadership in managing project scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, and delivery performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to document, validate, and prioritize requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate cross-functional and multi-vendor teams supporting development, integration, data, security, testing, training, and production operations.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage the product backlog, and monitor sprint capacity, milestones, and release readiness.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies involving Salesforce configuration, integrations, environments, data, and deployments.
• Provide clear project status, performance metrics, risks, decisions, and required actions to government and program stakeholders.
• Support change control, phased transitions, user adoption, documentation, and knowledge-transfer activities.
• Track Salesforce licenses, utilization, renewals, and projected requirements in coordination with government and vendor stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery activities align with applicable federal and DoD security, compliance, accessibility, and reporting requirements.

Required Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator
• Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant or Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant

Preferred Qualifications and Certifications

• Experience supporting Salesforce Government Cloud or another regulated government cloud environment.
• Experience with Salesforce DevOps, release governance, automated testing, data migration, system integration, and production-support processes.
• Experience supporting help-desk operations, incident management, problem management, service-level reporting, and continual service improvement.
• Experience with RMF, ATO, FedRAMP, DoD cybersecurity, Section 508, and government records-management requirements.
• Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant or Sales Cloud Consultant, whichever is not held as the required Cloud certification
• Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, or Certified ScrumMaster.