Senior Project Manager

Accion Labs is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a 100% remote, 6-month contract-to-hire position. The role involves leading complex digital initiatives, managing multiple projects, and ensuring successful delivery aligned with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Direct the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and close of digital product initiatives of varying size and complexity
• Lead delivery of multi-workstream initiatives spanning digital platforms, applications, integrations, and data capabilities
• Serve as a primary point of coordination across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Operations, and external delivery partners
• Translate business and product objectives into clearly defined delivery plans, milestones, and success metrics
• Manage project dependencies, milestones, critical paths, and cross-team coordination
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans including scope, schedules, resources, assumptions, risks, budgets, and change management
• Analyze, manage, and report on project performance including financials, resource allocation, risks, and delivery forecasts
• Provide clear, concise status reporting and executive-level communication, including RAID tracking and KPI visibility
• Proactively identify delivery risks and issues; assess potential impacts and drive mitigation strategies
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery models, including coordination across product backlogs, release planning, PI planning, and incremental delivery
• Request and onboard project resources as needed to support successful delivery
• Serve as an individual contributor while acting as a thought leader and innovative partner within the IT PMO
• Mentor and support junior project managers

Requirements:

• Strong judgment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex IT or digital initiatives in cross-functional environments
• Experience supporting digital products, platforms, or customer-facing systems, including applications and data-driven solutions
• Ability to manage multiple medium-sized projects or a single large, complex initiative simultaneously
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile, hybrid, and traditional approaches
• Proven ability to manage schedules, dependencies, risks, and financials across multiple workstreams
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources to generate insight on project performance
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, and communication skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and vice versa
• Demonstrated ability to drive clarity and progress in environments with evolving requirements and ambiguity
• Ability to remain effective in high-pressure or high-visibility situations
• Accountable for successful delivery of complex digital initiatives on time, within budget, and aligned to business objectives
• Clearly define and communicate roles and responsibilities for stakeholders, project team members, and business partners
• Maintain regular project cadence including weekly status reporting, RAID logs, and delivery metrics
• Ensure adherence to established Project Management Frameworks and governance standards
• Define and socialize the business benefits and value delivered by digital initiatives and how they align to broader organizational goals
• Direct the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and close of digital product initiatives of varying size and complexity
• Lead delivery of multi-workstream initiatives spanning digital platforms, applications, integrations, and data capabilities
• Serve as a primary point of coordination across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Operations, and external delivery partners
• Translate business and product objectives into clearly defined delivery plans, milestones, and success metrics
• Manage project dependencies, milestones, critical paths, and cross-team coordination
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans including scope, schedules, resources, assumptions, risks, budgets, and change management
• Analyze, manage, and report on project performance including financials, resource allocation, risks, and delivery forecasts
• Provide clear, concise status reporting and executive-level communication, including RAID tracking and KPI visibility
• Proactively identify delivery risks and issues; assess potential impacts and drive mitigation strategies
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery models, including coordination across product backlogs, release planning, PI planning, and incremental delivery
• Request and onboard project resources as needed to support successful delivery
• Serve as an individual contributor while acting as a thought leader and innovative partner within the IT PMO
• Mentor and support junior project managers
• PMP certification preferred
• Agile certification preferred (PMI-ACP, CSM, etc.)
• Knowledge of Change Management methodologies ideal (ADKAR, etc.)