Senior Project Manager - Strategic Initiatives (Remote)

Husch Blackwell LLP; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across the firm. The role requires steering programs that align with strategic objectives, manage risks, and deliver value for internal teams and clients.

The position supports governance, reporting, and execution discipline, partnering with EPMO leaders and senior stakeholders. A PMP/PM certification and change-management experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field or equivalent professional or educational experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide or cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholder groups, competing priorities, significant organizational change, and executive-level reporting.
• PMP, Prosci Change Management, Scrum, or related project management certification preferred but not required.
• Working knowledge of organizational change management methodologies, stakeholder engagement practices, and adoption planning techniques.
• Experience facilitating alignment and decision-making among executive sponsors, senior leaders, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders with competing priorities and perspectives.
• Experience identifying and managing system-level risks, dependencies, trade-offs, escalation needs, and organizational implications across complex initiatives.
• Strong planning, prioritization, governance, and execution capabilities across complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Change leadership mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge the status quo, and support adoption of new ways of working in fast-paced environments.
• Sense of urgency and ownership with a disciplined approach to issue escalation, mitigation planning, and delivery against commitments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes, assess tradeoffs, and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear, concise recommendations for leadership.
• Leadership and influence skills, with the ability to drive alignment, build trust, and hold cross-functional teams accountable without direct authority.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and PM tools: Monday.com, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Strategy Delivery Portfolio Analyst and EPMO Leader to lead strategic initiatives, establish project governance, enable cross-functional execution, and provide leadership visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and value realization.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of EPMO standards, tools, templates, and governance practices while applying those frameworks to support disciplined project execution, stage-gate reviews, issue escalation, and leadership decision-making.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, critical paths, and interdependencies to ensure successful delivery.
• Facilitate alignment across business leaders, functional teams, subject matter experts, and external partners to clarify scope, priorities, success measures, and accountabilities.
• Drive executive-ready reporting and communication, including status updates, risk summaries, milestone reviews, and recommendations for corrective action.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; escalate critical concerns with recommended mitigation plans.
• Lead working sessions to define implementation roadmaps, coordinate decisions, remove barriers, and maintain momentum across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to drive change readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, and successful implementation of new processes, technologies, and operating models.
• Coach project teams and functional leaders on governance expectations, accountability, project discipline, risk management, and effective execution practices.
• Other assignments as needed.

Skills

PMP Certification

Prosci Change Management

Scrum

Stakeholder Engagement

Governance

Risk Management

Microsoft 365

Monday.com

Smartsheet

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business

Tools

Monday.com

Smartsheet

Azure DevOps

Job description

Husch Blackwell LLP is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across the firm. The role requires steering programs that align with strategic objectives, manage risks, and deliver value for internal teams and clients.

The position supports governance, reporting, and execution discipline, partnering with EPMO leaders and senior stakeholders. A PMP/PM certification and change-management experience are preferred.