Senior Project Manager – Cloud & Compliance Advisory

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

📋 Description

• Act as the main project management liaison for clients, sponsors, and internal delivery teams.

• Foster trusted relationships with clients through proactive communication, credible guidance, consistent follow-through, and a deep understanding of client goals.

• Oversee project initiation, discovery, kickoff, planning, execution, transition, and closure for consulting projects.

• Convert statements of work, engagement objectives, and client needs into delivery plans, milestones, outcomes, and acceptance criteria.

• Manage the entire project lifecycle for multiple simultaneous client engagements.

• Create and sustain integrated project plans that encompass milestones, workstreams, dependencies, resources, deliverables, and critical path activities.

• Control scope and change management, including impact assessments, approvals, documentation, and communication.

• Monitor project health through delivery metrics and suggest intervention or recovery strategies.

• Design and oversee governance models for engagements, establishing meeting rhythms, decision rights, escalation processes, reporting expectations, and stakeholder involvement.

• Maintain RAID logs and handle risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, dependencies, constraints, and their mitigations until resolved.

• Lead governance reviews, stage gates, steering committees, executive updates, and formal delivery checkpoints.

• Prepare governance packs that communicate project health, progress, decisions, risks, issues, financial status, and recommended actions.

• Oversee project budgets, forecasts, expenditures, actuals, remaining effort, resource plans, and financial performance.

• Assist with time, expense, invoicing, utilization, and revenue-related processes.

• Provide status updates and lead client status meetings, working sessions, steering committees, executive briefings, and retrospectives.

• Guide and influence cross-functional, matrixed teams; clarify responsibilities, resolve conflicts, eliminate obstacles, and promote collaboration.

• Collaborate with resource management, sales, finance, operations, security, and practice leadership.

• Leverage lessons learned, delivery metrics, client feedback, and retrospectives to enhance execution and client experience.

• Contribute to project management standards, governance practices, templates, playbooks, and reporting.

• Adhere to company-defined billable utilization targets.

• Travel for client or internal engagements as necessary, up to 20%.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in project management, including significant client-facing project delivery experience in consulting, professional services, technology, cybersecurity, compliance, advisory, or a similar environment.

• A bachelor's degree is preferred, or an associate degree coupled with equivalent experience in project management, business administration, consulting, technology, or a related field.

• Proven success in leading complex client engagements involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, deliverables, dependencies, and competing priorities.

• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, quality, and change control throughout the project lifecycle.

• Demonstrated experience in designing or managing project governance, including steering committees, decision rights, escalation processes, stage gates, RAID management, and executive reporting.

• Experience collaborating with client executives, sponsors, business stakeholders, and delivery leaders to ensure alignment and achieve outcomes.

• Background in leading cross-functional, matrixed teams within a consulting or professional services delivery model.

• Experience overseeing project financials, forecasts, utilization, resource plans, scope alignment, and commercial impacts.

• Familiarity with Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project management methodologies.

• Experience facilitating executive meetings, steering committees, status reviews, working sessions, and issue-resolution forums.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Excellent customer service skills and a demonstrated commitment to client satisfaction, delivery quality, and professional integrity.

• Experience with project and portfolio management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, OpenAir, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.

• Advanced proficiency in creating executive-ready status reports, governance packs, dashboards, financial summaries, and decision materials.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to establish structure in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments and function effectively with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrated leadership, accountability for outcomes, sound judgment, adaptability, and consistent follow-through.

• Capacity to mentor team members and influence stakeholders while maintaining appropriate boundaries and accountability.

• Availability to provide full-time support aligned with U.S.-based delivery teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work model allowing employees to choose when and where they work, whether at home or in an office.

• Employee resource groups.

• In-person and virtual events.

• Paid parental leave.

• Flexible time off.

• Reimbursement for certification and training.

• Membership for digital mental health and wellbeing support.

• Comprehensive insurance options.

• Equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.

• Annual incentives, commissions, and/or recognition programs may be available.