Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

Socket.dev; Illinois; On-site; USD 108,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Performance to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and coordinate cross-functional execution. You will provide leaders with accurate progress insights, risks, decisions, and value across initiatives.

The role focuses on governance, risk management, dashboarding, and insightful reporting, with an emphasis on data quality and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 3 years of project management or PMO experience.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Experience developing project plans, governance materials, status reports, RAID logs, and executive presentations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, Power BI, Power Sheets, etc.

Responsibilities

• Project delivery: Define scope, outcomes, workplans, timelines, governance, and ways of working for assigned initiatives; coordinate execution from initiation through closure.
• Governance and controls: Prepare agendas and materials, facilitate reviews, document decisions, maintain action logs, and ensure agreed actions are completed.
• Risk and dependency management: Maintain RAID logs, identify critical-path impacts, coordinate mitigations, and elevate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Performance analytics and dashboarding: Build and maintain project and portfolio dashboards, executive scorecards, risk heat maps, and performance views.
• Reporting and insight: Translate complex delivery and performance data into concise narratives, trends, implications, and management actions.
• Data quality: Partner with data owners to define measures, validate inputs, resolve inconsistencies, and maintain confidence in reported information.
• Process improvement: Standardize and automate recurring reporting, status collection, governance, and workflow activities.
• Stakeholder partnership: Build relationships across a matrixed organization, clarify ownership, surface trade-offs, and promote timely decisions.

Skills

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business, Information Systems, Analytics, Project Management, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Sheets

Microsoft Office

Job description

Socket.dev seeks a Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Performance to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and coordinate cross-functional execution. You will provide leaders with accurate progress insights, risks, decisions, and value across initiatives.

The role focuses on governance, risk management, dashboarding, and insightful reporting, with an emphasis on data quality and process improvements.