Project Manager

Spectraforce Technologies • Thousand Oaks, CA, United States • 2d ago

Title: Project Manager
Duration: 12 months
Location: Remote

Description:

Key Responsibilities
Agile Delivery & Project Leadership

Lead Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retrospectives, stand-ups) and ensure teams operate with strong discipline, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Build and maintain detailed project plans, sprint schedules, work breakdown structures, and task assignments.
Track progress against key milestones, escalating timeline, resource, or quality concerns to the Portfolio Manager as needed.
Implement and refine project management processes and frameworks that improve consistency, predictability, and speed of delivery.

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

Develop and execute change management plans to drive engagement, adoption, and readiness across impacted teams.
Assess stakeholder needs, manage communication plans, and anticipate resistance points before they escalate.
Support leaders in navigating organizational impacts and aligning the workforce to new digital capabilities.

Digital Tool Enabled Practices

Leverage digital tools to automate reporting, enhance communication, streamline documentation, and accelerate decision-making.
Identify opportunities where digital can improve delivery efficiency, team productivity, or problem-solving velocity.
Guide teams on responsible and effective digital adoption within project workflows.

Team Collaboration & Communication

Serve as the connective tissue across technical, business, and leadership teams-ensuring consistent, clear communication.
Manage recurring meeting cadences, agendas, facilitation, notes, and follow-up actions.
Provide timely updates, dashboards, and insights to the Portfolio Manager, Product Owner(s), and leadership.

Strategic Partnership

Collaborate with senior business partners to prioritize initiatives that propel enterprise-level digital and transformation goals.
Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early-and recommend solutions that keep programs advancing.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation across the delivery ecosystem.

Day-to-Day Activities

Develop and execute continuous improvement processes for Agile teams.
Communicate program status, risks, and insights to leadership.
Coordinate and manage meeting series, including facilitation and minutes.
Build and maintain project plans, timelines, backlog items, and cross-team tasks.
Use digital tools to streamline reporting, documentation, communication, and data synthesis.
Partner with Product Owners on prioritization, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree or Masters degree and 2 years of experience or Bachelors degree and 4 years of experience or Associates degree and 8 years of experience or High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:

Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification REQUIRED
Person needs to have a strong presence and carry themselves well through interviews. This EW will be presenting to high level of leadership on a regular cadence and need to speak efficiently and clearly.
Candidate must have a strong concept of change management and be able to talk through that in interview
Need high level PM experience (ideally 6-10 years)

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