Technical Project Manager - PMO

Speria; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Speria MTech is seeking an experienced Program Manager/PMO lead to drive planning, governance, and reporting across multiple software development streams. You will connect milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, budget, quality, and delivery outcomes while partnering with Engineering, Product, Sales, Finance and HR to translate progress into business communication.

You will establish PMO rhythms, escalation paths, and executive reporting, while building scalable dashboards and processes that

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of relevant experience.
• 5–7 years leading technical software projects or programs.
• PMP certification is required.
• Ability to work from the Atlanta area in a hybrid model at least two days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and coordination across multiple software-development workstreams, releases, and strategic initiatives.
• Create integrated program plans connecting milestones, dependencies, resources, capacity, risks, budget, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Establish practical PMO governance, operating rhythms, guardrails, escalation paths, and executive reporting.
• Build dashboards providing a unified view of engineering progress, quality, velocity, productivity, staffing, financials, and schedule performance.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, Sales, Finance, HR and other teams to translate technical progress into clear business communication.
• Identify execution risk early, ask credible technical questions, support triage, and help teams restore programs to plan.
• Improve and automate program tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Develop a scalable technical PMO model that can grow across teams and geographies.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Delivery governance

Education

PMP certification

PgMP certification

Job description

• Lead planning and coordination across multiple software-development workstreams, releases, and strategic initiatives.
• Create integrated program plans that connect milestones, dependencies, resources, capacity, risks, budget, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Establish practical PMO governance, operating rhythms, guardrails, escalation paths, and executive reporting.
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide a unified view of engineering progress, quality, velocity, productivity, staffing, financials, infrastructure costs, and schedule performance.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, Sales, Finance, HR, and other teams to translate technical progress into clear business communication.
• Identify execution risk early, ask credible technical questions, support triage, and help teams restore programs to plan.
• Improve and automate program tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Help develop a scalable technical PMO model that can grow across teams and geographies.

What You Will Do

• Lead planning and coordination across multiple software-development workstreams, releases, and strategic initiatives.
• Create integrated program plans that connect milestones, dependencies, resources, capacity, risks, budget, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Establish practical PMO governance, operating rhythms, guardrails, escalation paths, and executive reporting.
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide a unified view of engineering progress, quality, velocity, productivity, staffing, financials, infrastructure costs, and schedule performance.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Customer Experience, Sales, Finance, HR, and other teams to translate technical progress into clear business communication.
• Identify execution risk early, ask credible technical questions, support triage, and help teams restore programs to plan.
• Improve and automate program tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Help develop a scalable technical PMO model that can grow across teams and geographies.

What You Bring

• Approximately 7-10 years of relevant experience, including 5-7 years leading technical software projects or programs.
• A strong software-product background and a practical understanding of how engineering teams deliver software from requirements and design through development, testing, release, and support.
• Prior experience as a software engineer, technical lead, engineering lead, or similarly technical practitioner is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success managing concurrent programs, dependencies, risks, release plans, cross-functional stakeholders, and executive communication.
• Experience defining and using metrics, dashboards, and trend data to improve delivery, quality, cost, capacity, or productivity.
• PMP certification is required.
• Strong communication, influence, organization, judgment, and follow-through.
• Ability to work from the Atlanta area in a hybrid model at least two days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• PgMP certification.
• B2B SaaS or enterprise software experience.
• Global program or PMO experience across distributed teams and regions.
• Experience with product re-architecture, platform initiatives, capacity planning, infrastructure economics, or cost optimization.
• Experience establishing or scaling a technical PMO.

What Success Looks Like

• A clear, unified view of global engineering programs and priorities.
• Reliable governance and reporting that teams and leaders trust.
• Earlier visibility into risk, dependencies, capacity constraints, cost, and quality trends.
• A first working version of the technical PMO dashboard and operating model within the first 90 days.

EEO Statement

Integrated into our shared values is Speria MTech’s commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, military service, genetic information, or any other characteristic or conduct protected by law. Speria MTech is committed to being a globally inclusive company where all people are treated fairly, recognized for their individuality, promoted based on performance, and encouraged to strive to reach their full potential. We believe in understanding and respecting differences among all people. Every individual at Speria MTech has an ongoing responsibility to respect and support a globally diverse environment.

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