Senior Project Manager - Client-Facing, High-Impact Tech

Cognex Corporation; Little Rock (AR); Presencial; USD 110.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cognex Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Manager with strong customer-facing experience to drive projects from pre-sales through delivery. You will organize internal and external resources, manage scope and risk, and maintain proactive communication with customers to ensure quality, timely delivery, and profitability.

The role requires leadership across cross-functional teams, mastery of project management methods, and the ability to learn and apply new technologies and markets rapidly.

Formación

• BA degree in a technical discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 5+ years' experience as a project manager in high-tech services.
• Willingness to travel 20–50% and adapt to varying hours.
• Strong written and verbal communication; customer relationship skills.

Responsabilidades

• Actively plan, organize, and align resources to win and execute against the project schedule.
• Maintain effective relationships with customers pre- and post-sale.
• Develop project schedules and track progress against milestones; communicate status.
• Define scope changes, present commercial strategies, and manage risk/escalations.
• Manage all project documentation through the lifecycle for service handoff.

Conocimientos

Project management processes

PMI standards

Customer relationship management

Communication skills

Risk assessment

Cost estimation

Scheduling & milestones

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making under pressure

Learning new technology

Educación

BA degree in technical discipline

Herramientas

Microsoft Projects

Descripción del empleo

Cognex Corporation is seeking a Senior Project Manager with strong customer-facing experience to drive projects from pre-sales through delivery. You will organize internal and external resources, manage scope and risk, and maintain proactive communication with customers to ensure quality, timely delivery, and profitability.

The role requires leadership across cross-functional teams, mastery of project management methods, and the ability to learn and apply new technologies and markets rapidly.