Associate Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of small to medium-sized operational, process enhancement, and business projects from inception through to execution.

• Assist senior managers and business leaders with more extensive, intricate cross-functional initiatives.

• Create and uphold project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and related project documentation.

• Establish project scope, schedules, and criteria for success.

• Track progress and proactively pinpoint risks, issues, dependencies, and obstacles.

• Coordinate resources and stakeholders to ensure projects remain on schedule.

• Enable problem resolution and escalate major risks or issues as necessary.

• Aid in implementation, transition, readiness, enablement, and adoption efforts.

• Generate project deliverables, documentation, communications, presentations, enablement materials, and implementation plans.

• Synchronize activities across Operations, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and other business areas.

• Lead project meetings, working sessions, stakeholder communications, and leadership reviews.

• Report on project status, decisions, risks, dependencies, priorities, milestones, and deliverables.

• Oversee multiple assigned projects while maintaining status reports, metrics, project records, action logs, and support documentation.

• Develop and sustain project templates, playbooks, standard procedures, and best practices.

• Recognize opportunities for process optimization, automation, digital solutions, and continuous improvement.

• Leverage data, reporting, and AI-enabled tools to assist in planning, monitoring, and decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in project management, project coordination, PMO, business operations, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience leading small projects autonomously and supporting medium to large cross-functional initiatives.

• Skill in managing project schedules, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.

• Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams through planning, execution, implementation, and adoption phases.

• Strong organizational and time management abilities; capacity to handle multiple priorities at once.

• Proficient in project management and work management tools; Smartsheet is preferred.

• High proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication capabilities.

• Experience in supporting process improvement or change management initiatives is preferred.

• CAPM, project management coursework, Lean Six Sigma, or change management training is preferred.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools is preferred.

• Willingness and ability to occasionally travel for workshops or meetings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• LTD insurance

• HSA

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Equal opportunity employer

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities