Senior Project Manager

pingidentity; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ping Identity is seeking a Senior Project Manager in its Business Transformation Office to lead complex technology initiatives, including AI-enabled transformation. You will collaborate with Business, IT, Engineering, and Data teams to define outcomes, map workflows, and coordinate design, build, testing, deployment, and adoption.

This Denver-based hybrid role requires strong accountability, cross-functional leadership, and proactive delivery of high-impact results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in project or program management delivering complex cross-functional technology initiatives.
• 3+ years in transformation, technology delivery, operations, or consulting.
• Experience leading complex projects involving AI/ML, data, analytics, automation, enterprise applications, or similar technologies.
• Strong execution skills in scoping, requirements, integrated planning, risk and dependency management, change management, and outcome tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional technology and transformation initiatives with clear scope, milestones, and dependencies.
• Translate business outcomes into executable project plans with defined requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Product Managers to govern project execution, dependencies, risks, and delivery; align with product direction and roadmap.
• Lead AI transformation from process redesign through adoption; connect AI outputs with data and systems of work; measure business value.
• Align stakeholders on goals, dependencies, and decisions; manage blockers and escalations; deliver credible executive updates.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML experience

Data analytics

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

About Ping Identity:

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.

Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.

While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management.

As a Senior Project Manager in Ping Identity's Business Transformation Office (BTO), you'll lead complex technology project-including AI-enabled transformation-while focusing your time and the project team's time on high-value priorities while deprioritizing lower-value work amid pressure to do more, faster. Working closely with stakeholders from Business, IT, Engineering, and Data teams, you will help to clarify outcomes, map current- and future-state workflows, surface system, data, and security dependencies, and coordinate solution development through design, build, testing, deployment, and adoption.

This hybrid role is based in Denver, Colorado, and requires strong accountability, cross-functional leadership, and a proactive approach to delivering high-impact outcomes. Reporting to the Director of Business Transformation Delivery, you will align technical delivery to business priorities, establish measurable outcomes and value measures, and help sponsors make timely scope, sequencing, and capacity decisions.

You will lead technical project delivery and business transformation initiatives, sometimes representing progress against company priorities to executive leadership. You will help identify where AI and other technology create business value, shape feasible solution options with the right business and technical partners, and support responsible implementation and adoption efforts.

You Will:

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional technology and transformation initiatives (e.g., sales process improvement), aligning owners, milestones, and capacity. Track related work owned by other teams as dependencies; provide project support only at the owning team's request.
• Translate business outcomes and stakeholder needs into an executable project plan with clear scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, and documented technical, data, security, process, and change dependencies.
• Partner with Product Managers, own project execution, planning, governance, dependencies, risks, and delivery; align with their ownership of product direction, roadmap, prioritization, and solution definition.
• Lead AI transformation from process redesign through adoption; connect AI experiences to data, integrations, and systems of work; agree success measures with sponsors, track business value, and guide follow-on investment.
• Align business and technical stakeholders on goals, ownership, dependencies, and decisions; adapt as priorities shift, clear blockers, manage critical paths, elevate major conflicts early, and improve reusable delivery practices and tools.
• When assigned as Solution Owner, facilitate solution design and integrate outputs from Business Analysts, Process Architect, and Technical Leads without replacing their specialist accountability.
• Provide concise, audience-specific delivery updates; translate technical status, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and business impact into executive recommendations, escalations, and clear decisions or decision requests. Communicate credibly across ELT, VP, and individual-contributor levels.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Denver-based hybrid role; in-office attendance on Tuesdays is required.
• 5+ years in project or program management, delivering complex cross-functional technology initiatives or interdependent portfolios.
• 3+ years in transformation, technology delivery, operations, or consulting; able to turn process needs into practical execution.
• Experience leading complex projects involving AI/ML, data, analytics, automation, enterprise applications, or similar technologies.
• Strong execution skills in scoping, requirements, integrated planning, risk and dependency management, change management, and outcome tracking.
• Familiarity with AI development (e.g., model development, data labeling, or model