Senior Vice President, Project Management

Stratus; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement program

Weekly pay schedule

Job summary

Stratus seeks a Senior Vice President, Project Management to lead enterprise delivery and strategy execution. You will oversee project management leaders and ensure disciplined governance, readiness, and capacity planning across programs and portfolios.

You will collaborate across Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Manufacturing, and Operations to align commitments with capacity, risk, and financial targets, driving improvements and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, project management, finance, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across project/program/portfolio management.
• 5+ years leading managers, senior leaders, or multi-layer organizations with accountability.
• Proven ownership of PM, delivery, and portfolio operations with financial metrics.
• Proven success in large, multi-site or enterprise programs and executive reviews.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation, influence, matrix leadership, and national travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead VPs, Program Directors, and senior PM leaders; set expectations for delivery, performance, and governance.
• Translate enterprise PM strategy into priorities, capacity plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Build a scalable PM organization through succession planning and strategic hiring.
• Escalate systemic delivery risks with facts, options, and timelines.
• Provide executive oversight of end-to-end delivery lifecycle and governance.
• Lead portfolio reviews by integrating health, schedule, margin, and risk data.
• Own governance of material delivery risks and recovery actions.
• Establish PM standards, readiness gates, and decision rights across the org.

Skills

Executive communication

Negotiation

Influence

Matrix leadership

National travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, project management, finance, or related discipline

Tools

IFS

PPM

Harmony/AI

Job description

Overview

Your Career In The Stratusphere

There’s never been a better time to join Stratus!

As the market leader in brand implementation and maintenance, we help the world’s most recognized brands show up consistently, everywhere they operate. From exterior signage and interior branding to site refreshes, digital signage, and ongoing repair and maintenance, we bring brands to life where it matters most.

At Stratus, every employee plays a direct role in that impact. We operate with a strong commitment to customer service, a focus on execution, and a bias for action. If you're looking for a place where your contributions are visible, your growth is supported, and your work makes a real difference, you’ll find it here.

The Opportunity

The Senior Vice President, Project Management is the enterprise delivery leader responsible for translating Stratus strategy and customer commitments into predictable, profitable, and high-quality execution across the Project Management organization. This role provides executive leadership for project delivery, portfolio performance, delivery readiness, resource and capacity planning, project financial performance, risk and issue management, execution standards, and the overall operating system that supports effective project delivery. The SVP leads through senior Project Management leaders and is accountable for building a disciplined, scalable organization capable of consistently delivering complex programs and portfolios.

Working closely with Sales, Customer Success, Business Solutions, Finance/FP&A, Manufacturing, Operations, and other key functions, the SVP establishes clear ownership, disciplined handoffs, and strong governance from opportunity and readiness through execution, closeout, and continuous improvement. The role ensures commitments are made with appropriate visibility to capacity, scope, schedule, risk, financial expectations, and operational readiness while maintaining clear functional accountability across the organization.

The SVP is also responsible for strengthening Project Management capability, ensuring leaders and teams identify and resolve issues at the appropriate level, proactively manage portfolio health, and elevate systemic risks with clear facts, options, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Leadership & Strategy

• Lead Vice Presidents, Program Directors, and senior Project Management leaders; establish clear expectations for delivery, financial performance, talent, quality, capacity, governance, and operating discipline.
• Translate enterprise Project Management strategy into annual operating priorities, organizational design, capacity plans, leadership objectives, investment needs, and measurable business outcomes.
• Build a scalable, high-performing Project Management organization through succession planning, leadership development, strategic hiring, role design, and organizational capability building.
• Escalate systemic delivery risks, capacity constraints, investment needs, and structural barriers with clear facts, options, and recommendations.

Delivery & Portfolio Governance

• Provide executive oversight of the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, ensuring disciplined handoffs, evidence-based readiness, clear ownership, and accountability from opportunity through planning, execution, closeout, and continuous improvement.
• Lead portfolio governance and executive operating reviews that integrate project health, schedule, forecast, margin, quality, capacity, readiness, talent, risk, and corrective actions.
• Own executive-level governance of material delivery risks, actions, issues, and decisions, ensuring early visibility, clear ownership, recovery plans, milestones, and closure.
• Lead the Project Management delivery escalation process, maintaining accountability for delivery recovery and execution while partnering with Customer Success on customer-facing escalations.
• Establish and continuously improve Project Management standards, readiness gates, decision rights, operating rhythms, performance measures, and role clarity.
• Ensure exceptions to established readiness and governance standards are supported by clear rationale, documented risk, accountable ownership, mitigation plans, and defined timelines.

Financial & Operational Performance

• Own Project Management delivery performance against approved commercial and financial baselines, including project forecasts, revenue timing assumptions, margin performance, scope and change recovery, productivity, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance/FP&A to provide accurate project-level forecast inputs and support billing readiness, revenue recognition, receivables, working capital, and financial risk management.
• Own Project Management capacity planning and workload health, aligning resources to demand, complexity, financial expectations, and delivery risk.
• Drive disciplined adoption of IFS, PPM, Harmony/AI, and other approved enterprise systems to improve visibility, standardization, productivity, and decision-making.
• Reduce duplicate reporting, shadow systems, and administrative burden by establishing clear systems of record, governance, and execution.

Cross-Functional & Customer Leadership

• Partner with Sales to assess delivery feasibility, capacity, schedule, execution risk, and commercial handoffs while maintaining clear Sales ownership of pipeline, pricing, revenue strategy, and commercial commitments.
• Partner with Customer Success on portfolio health, customer communications, recovery planning, and delivery performance while maintaining Customer Success ownership of the strategic customer relationship, retention, and customer escalations.
• Partner with Business Solutions to ensure solution architecture, scope, estimating, technical design, and order-readiness outputs support executable delivery commitments.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to integrate functional readiness, capacity constraints, dependencies, and execution risks into project plans and customer commitments.
• Maintain clear cross-functional ownership and disciplined handoffs through consistent use of RACI, RAID, readiness standards, and authoritative enterprise data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, project management, finance, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across project/program/portfolio management, customer delivery, operations, manufacturing, service, or comparable complex execution environments preferred.
• 5+ years leading managers, senior leaders, or multi-layer organizations with significant delivery, financial, talent, capacity, and organizational accountability preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of a significant Project Management, delivery, business-unit, division, customer/portfolio organization, or comparable operation, including revenue/margin performance, forecast inputs, expense, capacity, investment, and performance tradeoffs.
• Proven leadership of complex multi-site, national, or enterprise programs and executive operating reviews that translate delivery, financial, customer, capacity, and risk data into decisions and recovery actions.
• Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, project margin, forecast accuracy, portfolio health, quality, productivity, organizational capability, and scalability; transformation, turnaround, redesign, or rapid-growth experience is strongly valued.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation, influence, matrix leadership, and national-travel capability are required. Signage experience is valued but not required when transferable leadership and operating experience are demonstrated.

What We Offer

Culture & Growth

• Supportive, collaborative work environment
• Career growth and advancement opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Regular coaching, feedback, and mentorship to support growth

Health & Wellbeing

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Health Savings Accounts with employer contributions
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Employee Assistance Program

Financial Security

• Weekly pay schedule
• 401(k) with employer match
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage

Work-Life Balance

• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid parental leave

Pay Transparency

$180,000 - $220,000 Annually

This range reflects the anticipated compensation for this role at the time of posting. Actual pay may vary based on factors such as job-related skills, experience, education, location, and business needs. This position may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation based on the nature of the position, individual, department, and/or company performance.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel as an essential function of the role to support in-person interaction with customers, field partners, and business stakeholders. Travel may be conducted via automobile, air, or other modes of transportation and may include overnight stays as needed.

Work Environment

This role operates in an office environment, with regular collaboration within and across teams. The position involves extended periods of sitting, computer use, and virtual communication and interaction. Physical requirements may include lifting up to 20 pounds and general movement within an office setting.

Pre-Employment Requirements

All offers of employment with Stratus are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, in accordance with applicable laws. For certain roles, including those designated as safety-sensitive or regulated positions, employment may also be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening and/or other regulatory requirements.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Stratus is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are proud provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.

Qualified applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. Please contact [e-mail] if you need an accommodation due to a disability to complete an application, job interview, and/or to otherwise participate in the hiring process. This email does not respond to non-accommodations related requests.

Additional Information

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all duties or responsibilities. Responsibilities may change at any time based on the needs of Stratus.