Senior Project Manager

Aizen Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aizen Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to own the full lifecycle of IT initiatives and drive cross-functional delivery. You will plan, govern, budget, forecast, and lead delivery with engineering, design, data, QA, security, and operations across complex programs.

You will manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations while maintaining dashboards and executive status updates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Senior Project Manager role delivering complex, multi-team initiatives.
• Delivery in Agile and Waterfall (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, hybrid).
• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and facilitation skills.
• Hands-on with Jira or Asana (and ideally Confluence or equivalent).
• Evidence of managing budgets, dependencies, and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle for one or more IT projects (initiation to closure).
• Plan & govern: create integrated plans, RAID logs, dependency maps, and change-control processes.
• Budget & forecasting: build bottoms-up budgets, track burn vs. forecast, and manage variance with corrective actions.
• Delivery management: run stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retros; coordinate cross-functional squads.
• Progress & reporting: define KPIs/OKRs, dashboards, executive status reports, escalated blockers.
• Risk & issue management: identify, quantify, mitigate, and own risks with clear owners and deadlines.
• Stakeholder leadership: map stakeholders, run steering committees, align priorities, manage expectations.
• Quality & readiness: oversee testing plans (SIT/UAT), cut-over/runbooks, release governance, and post-go-live hypercare.
• Vendor management: coordinate external partners/SIs, manage SoWs, track deliverables to contract.
• Benefits realisation: define success metrics and ensure projects deliver business outcomes.

Skills

Senior PM

Agile & Waterfall

Stakeholder mgmt

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Jira

Asana

Confluence

Job description

What You'll Do

• Own the full lifecycle (initiation → planning → execution → closure) for one or more IT projects.

• Plan & govern: Create integrated plans (scope, schedule, cost, resources), RAID logs, dependency maps, and change-control processes.

• Budget & forecasting: Build bottoms-up budgets, track burn vs. forecast, and manage variance with corrective actions.

• Delivery management: Run stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retros; coordinate cross-functional squads (engineering, design, data, QA, security, operations).

• Progress & reporting: Define KPIs/OKRs, maintain dashboards, produce executive status reports, and escalated blockers early.

• Risk & issue management: Proactively identify, quantify, mitigate, and own critical risks/issues with clear owners and deadlines.

• Stakeholder leadership: Map stakeholders, run steering committees, align priorities, and manage expectations across business and technology.

• Quality & readiness: Oversee testing plans (SIT/UAT), cut-over/runbooks, release governance, and post-go-live hypercare.

• Vendor management: Coordinate external partners/SIs, manage SoWs, and track deliverables to contract.

• Benefits realisation: Define success metrics and ensure projects deliver the intended business outcomes.

30/60/90 Day Success Outcomes

• 30 days: Project charter, governance cadence, risk register, baseline plan & budget approved; stakeholder map and comms plan in place.

• 60 days: Execution on track with visible burn-down/burn-up; top risks actively mitigated; first deliverables shipped or UAT complete.

• 90 days: Key milestones met within agreed tolerances; adoption/change plans executed; post-implementation review and benefits tracking underway.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years in a Senior Project Manager role delivering complex, multi-team initiatives.

• Demonstrated delivery in Agile and Waterfall (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, hybrid).

• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and facilitation skills.

• Hands-on with Jira or Asana (and ideally Confluence or equivalent).

• Evidence of managing budgets, dependencies, and distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• PMP or PRINCE2 certification.

• Sector experience in IT or finance (e.g., platforms, cloud, data, security, payments, regulatory).

• Familiarity with SDLC/DevOps practices, CI/CD, and modern cloud environments.

Tools & Environment (typical)

Jira, Confluence, Asana, MS Project, Miro, O365/Google Workspace, Slack/Teams; exposure to modern engineering and QA practices.