Senior Technology Project Manager 3

AAA Auto Club Enterprises; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) matching

Pension

Tuition assistance

Floating holidays

PTO for volunteer programs

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Auto Club Enterprises in Costa Mesa, CA seeks a Senior Technology Project Manager to partner with the Office of the CTO and lead enterprise technology programs across multiple work streams in an agile environment. You will own outcomes end-to-end, drive alignment across teams, surface tradeoffs, and provide executive clarity for decision making.

You will oversee end-to-end delivery, define integrated planning, manage dependencies, and run governance with RAID, delivering concise executive

Qualifications

• Extensive project/program management experience delivering technical initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated track record leading large, complex programs with multiple cross-functional teams and significant dependencies.
• Experience managing delivery in one or more domains: Enterprise Infrastructure, Information Security, Application Development.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, drive alignment, and move stakeholders toward timely decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills—able to translate complexity into clear tradeoffs, risk posture and action plans.
• Advanced project discipline: integrated schedules, critical path thinking, RAID management, change control, and governance.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to use data and delivery metrics to drive accountability and course‑correct.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities shift.
• Proficiency with common delivery tools such as Jira/Confluence, Smartsheet/MS Project and collaboration tools (Teams/Slack).
• A “Can do” work ethic and desire to drive results.
• Preferred (not required): PMP, PgMP, CSM/PSM, SAFe or equivalent experience; vendor management and compliance/security program delivery are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology programs (Infrastructure, Information Security, and/or Application Development) from intake through launch and stabilization.
• Define and own integrated project planning across multiple workstreams: scope, milestones, critical path, resourcing, and delivery metrics.
• Drive cross-team dependency management across engineering, product, information security, operations and business stakeholders.
• Establish and run project governance, including steering committee cadence, stakeholder alignment, decision logs, escalation paths, and RACI as needed.
• Own and actively manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), ensuring proactive mitigation and timely escalation.
• Facilitate execution in an Agile / hybrid environment, removing blockers, aligning priorities, and ensuring teams deliver against commitments.
• Deliver concise, executive-ready communication: status, risks, tradeoffs, and decision requests to senior leadership.
• Manage change effectively by controlling scope and timelines, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring impacts are understood and approved.
• Maintain high-quality project artifacts (plans, timelines, RAID logs, meeting notes, action items, milestone reviews, launch readiness).
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery operations and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise PM

Cross-functional leadership

Domain experience

Influence skills

Executive communication

Integrated scheduling

RAID management

Change control

Governance

Analytics / metrics

Jira/Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Teams

Slack

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

MS Project

Teams

Slack

Job description

As a Senior Technology Project Manager, you will be responsible for partnering with the Office of the CTO to execute large, enterprise-wide programs and provide delivery leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives in an agile environment at our Costa Mesa, CA office. You will own outcomes end-to-end—driving alignment across teams that don’t report to you, surfacing tradeoffs, and ensuring executive stakeholders have the clarity they need to make decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology programs (Infrastructure, Information Security, and/or Application Development) from intake through launch and stabilization.
• Define and own integrated project planning across multiple workstreams: scope, milestones, critical path, resourcing, and delivery metrics.
• Drive cross-team dependency management across engineering, product, information security, operations and business stakeholders.
• Establish and run project governance, including steering committee cadence, stakeholder alignment, decision logs, escalation paths, and RACI as needed.
• Own and actively manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), ensuring proactive mitigation and timely escalation.
• Facilitate execution in an Agile / hybrid environment, removing blockers, aligning priorities, and ensuring teams deliver against commitments.
• Deliver concise, executive-ready communication: status, risks, tradeoffs, and decision requests to senior leadership.
• Manage change effectively by controlling scope and timelines, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring impacts are understood and approved.
• Maintain high-quality project artifacts (plans, timelines, RAID logs, meeting notes, action items, milestone reviews, launch readiness).
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery operations and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices across the organization.

What You’ll Need

• Extensive project/program management experience delivering technical initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated track record leading large, complex programs with multiple cross-functional teams and significant dependencies.
• Experience managing delivery in one or more of the following domains: Enterprise Infrastructure, Information Security, Application Development.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, drive alignment, and move stakeholders toward timely decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills—able to translate complexity into clear tradeoffs, risk posture and action plans.
• Advanced project discipline: integrated schedules, critical path thinking, RAID management, change control, and governance.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to use data and delivery metrics to drive accountability and course‑correct.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities shift.
• Proficiency with common delivery tools such as Jira/Confluence, Smartsheet/MS Project and collaboration tools (Teams/Slack).
• A “Can do” work ethic and desire to drive results.
• Preferred (not required): PMP, PgMP, CSM/PSM, SAFe or equivalent experience; vendor management and compliance/security program delivery are a plus.

The starting pay range for this position is:

$120,500.00 - $160,800.00

Additionally, for full time positions, you will be eligible to participate in our incentive program based upon the achievement of organization, team and personal performance.

Remarkable benefits

• Health coverage for medical, dental, vision
• 401(K) saving plans with company match AND Pension
• Tuition assistance
• Floating holidays and PTO for community volunteer programs
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs
• Employee discounts (membership, insurance, travel, entertainment, services and more!)

Auto Club Enterprises is the largest club within the national AAA federation. We have nearly 17,000 employees in 24 states helping more than 18 million members. The strength of our organization is our employees. Bringing together and supporting different cultures, backgrounds, personalities and strengths creates a team capable of delivering legendary, lifetime service to our members. When we embrace our diversity – we win. All of Us! With our national brand recognition, long-standing reputation since 1900 and constantly growing membership, we are seeking career-minded, service-driven professionals to join our team.

“Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.”

AAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our organization participates in E-Verify

The Automobile Club of Southern California will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), the Unincorporated Los Angeles County (ULAC) regulation and the California Fair Chance Act (CFCA).