Senior Project Manager

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. As a Senior Project Manager, you will orchestrate the delivery of complex projects, managing various teams and ensuring all elements are synchronized to meet launch milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate complex delivery - lead the end-to-end execution of large-scale initiatives (e.g., a new edition), managing intricate dependencies between writing, design, digital tooling, physical production, service readiness, and more, and the different teams themselves
• Master the critical path - map out and manage the high-stakes timeline for large-scale initiatives and ensure the team is focused on the highest-leverage work to protect the launch date
• Drive risk mitigation and problem-solving - proactively identify project risks, then develop and implement mitigations that restore project health. Know when to escalate and ask for help, while being an escalation point for other teams
• Facilitate high-impact rituals - design and lead planning and execution meetings that keep the team moving, ensuring clear objectives, documented ownership, and follow through
• Own physical, digital, and service readiness - work closely with Supply Chain to manage the 'Bill of Materials' (BOM), making sure every physical kit component and digital lesson asset is tracked, QA’d, and ready for launch milestones
• Optimize team throughput - analyze team velocity and capacity. Identify friction points in the workflow (e.g., a bottleneck in the editorial review process) and partner with the Lead to implement process improvements
• Strategic resource planning - look 2-3 quarters ahead to anticipate long-term staffing needs, capacity constraints and production peaks to prevent burnout and impact on delivery
• Manage vendors and partners - set up agreements, negotiate statements of work with performance expectations, and hold vendors accountable for deliverables. Evaluate vendor performance and make recommendations on renewals or changes
• Communicate with precision - serve as the single source of truth for project status, giving stakeholders with clear, data-backed updates on progress, scope trade-offs, and resource needs

Requirements:

• 5-8+ Years of Experience: Proven track record of managing complex projects in EdTech, software, or creative publishing
• Hybrid Methodology Fluency: Experience in Agile/Scrum for software development combined with the Waterfall/Stage-Gate discipline required for print and physical production
• Master of the 'Blended' Product: You understand the unique challenges of shipping products that live in both a web browser and a student's backpack
• Advanced Tooling Skills: Expert-level proficiency in Smartsheet (and experience in similar tools like Monday.com). You can build the dashboards and trackers that the team relies on
• Communication Powerhouse: You can explain a technical software delay to a content editor and a creative design constraint to a writer with equal ease