Strategic Project Leader: Delivery & Stakeholder Success

Compunnel, Inc.; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a capable Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of a single project or deliverable-based model.

You will ensure the agreed scope, timeline, and budget are met, while maintaining strong customer relationships and guiding the team through governance, risk, and quality practices. The role requires coordinating activities, milestones, resources, and interfaces, with emphasis on delivering high quality results on time and within contract obligations.

Qualifications

• Identify project risks and define action plans to manage.
• Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks.
• Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as schedule, quality, risk avoidance and changes to project specifications.
• Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately.
• Assess the project health using quantitative measures and adjust course as needed.

Responsibilities

• Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external).
• Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment.
• Define activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget; optimize costs and time utilisation, minimize waste and deliver projects on time, on budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
• Anticipate all possible risk and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; develop contingency plans.
• Implement the governance model defined for similar projects.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management.
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies and solution artefacts.
• Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop.
• Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate scope prioritization with the customer.
• Consolidate estimates at a solution level, evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint.
• Review and validate estimates across service lines.
• Conduct resource planning at a project level based on project requirements.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage small projects/modules.
• Anticipate items that cause schedule delays and manage them following the risk management plan.
• Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same.
• Estimate the work, plan and track the activities closely and report progress regularly.
• Proactively identify dependencies that might impact project KPIs and monitor them.
• Identify and track risks in the project and follow escalation path.
• Document risks and issues and communicate to stakeholders.
• Identify internal and external stakeholders; define RACIA chart and communicate roles/responsibilities.
• Define the communication plan and implement it.
• Support system integration testing and test strategy.
• Understand business impact of defects and prioritize defects by criticality and severity.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and root cause analysis.
• Explain results and adopt appropriate tooling strategy for the project.
• Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high‑quality work products.
• Meet project goals, ensure process compliance and mentor the team.
• Tailor organization's quality guidelines to meet project requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Risk management

Communication skills

Job description

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a capable Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of a single project or deliverable-based model.

You will ensure the agreed scope, timeline, and budget are met, while maintaining strong customer relationships and guiding the team through governance, risk, and quality practices. The role requires coordinating activities, milestones, resources, and interfaces, with emphasis on delivering high quality results on time and within contract obligations.