Senior Project Manager (Insurance Technology Transformation)

Ian Martin Group; California; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

The Ian Martin Group is assisting a major client in a Senior Project Manager role focused on an Insurance Technology Transformation. This fully remote contract position will drive a portfolio of critical projects from intake through to successful launch and measurable results.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage budgets and timelines, and ensure regulatory alignment while turning business needs into concrete technical actions for engineers and analysts.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project or program management experience.
• Experience delivering technology projects in insurance or financial services.
• Understanding of regulatory constraints affecting project scope.
• Proven track record turning around in-flight or struggling projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from intake to close, with clear owners and dates.
• Lead steering committees, status updates, and risk reviews.
• Track scope, schedule, and budget against a baseline; report using EV or similar.
• Translate business requests into clear requirements with BAs and analysts.
• Lead a team of ~15 engineers, BAs, and analysts, plus an offshore partner.
• Ensure adherence to project standards set by technology leadership.

Skills

Project management

Executive presence

Communication

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Job description

Senior Project Manager (Insurance Technology Transformation)

• Remote (Remote)
• Contract
• Remote

Job Description

Senior Project Manager (Insurance Technology Transformation)

• Contract Length: 6 months with possible extension
• Work Type: Remote

Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

About the client

Our client is a specialty insurance and benefits administrator with about 250 employees. It serves as a third-party administrator (TPA) for major life insurance carriers and runs accident and travel insurance programs. It belongs to a larger insurance platform that grows through acquisition. Its teams sit in Arizona and California.

About the role

You take the driver's seat on a portfolio of technology projects at the center of a major transformation. You take over projects already in flight, reset them, and drive them to the finish line.

The work sits between business and technology. You don't write code. You understand the technology well enough to turn business needs into clear work and guide technical teams to deliver it.

The projects

• Intelligent document processing (IDP). Implement a vendor platform that automates document intake.
• Claims portal. Build a new claims portal alongside the IDP system.
• Payments platform. Launch a credit card payment platform with a major bank partner.
• Financial interfaces. Build interfaces that connect core platforms to financial systems.
• Product development. Deliver new products on the current platform, plus a set of smaller projects.

What you do

• Own projects from start to close: intake, planning, delivery, launch, and results.
• Set clear commitments with named owners and dates. Hold everyone to them.
• Run steering committees, weekly status updates, and risk reviews.
• Track scope, schedule, and budget against a baseline. Use earned value or similar measures to show where each project stands.
• Turn requests from marketing and operations teams into clear requirements with business analysts (BAs) and systems analysts.
• Lead a team of about 15 engineers, developers, BAs, and analysts, plus an offshore development partner.
• Put the project standards set by technology leadership into daily practice. Help the team adopt them.
• Spot compliance impacts early. Work with compliance and the business to address them.

What you bring

• 10+ years of project or program management.
• Technology projects delivered in insurance or financial services, ideally tied to the product life cycle, claims, portals, or policy systems.
• Working knowledge of financial services regulation and how it shapes project scope.
• A track record of taking over in-flight or struggling projects and turning them around.
• Executive presence. You push back with facts and keep leaders informed.
• Clear, concise writing and speaking.
• Comfort with waterfall, agile, or hybrid delivery. You pick what fits the project.
• Enough technical depth to discuss application programming interfaces (APIs), integrations, data, and machine learning concepts with engineers.
• Experience with Jira.

Nice to have

• Document automation, optical character recognition (OCR), or IDP projects.
• Payment platforms and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
• Life, accident, or travel insurance, or TPA experience. Property and casualty experience transfers too.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification.
• Formal earned value management experience.

Why this role

You step into projects that matter to the business right now. Leadership wants someone who stays and grows with the team, so this contract is built to last. If you like bringing order to a busy portfolio, this role fits.

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.