Productivity & Automation Project Manager

Evolver Commercial•Sf, CA

About The Position

The Project Manager of Productivity & Automation is responsible for maximizing the business value delivered through enterprise productivity, automation, and AI capabilities. The role partners with business Product Domain teams to identify opportunities, translate business needs into prioritized solutions, and drive adoption of modern automation and AI capabilities. The role owns the what, why, and priority of the work, while partnering with Platform Owners and engineering teams on the how, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and platform standards. The role develops and maintains a productivity and automation roadmap, defines business outcomes and measures of success, owns and prioritizes the product backlog, and translates business needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. It partners with engineering and Platform Owners to assess solution options, complexity, dependencies, and technical feasibility, and makes scope and prioritization trade-offs across business demands. The Project Manager works with Product Domain teams to understand workflows and pain points, guide initiatives toward reusable enterprise capabilities, and coordinate dependencies across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, AI, security, data, and other enterprise platforms. The role enables safe citizen development and responsible adoption of approved AI tools, partnering with Platform Owners on guardrails, reusable components, training, and best practices. It also helps transition successful citizen-developed solutions into appropriately governed and supported enterprise solutions when needed. The role facilitates a weekly 1–2 hour SharePoint development sync with embedded SharePoint development teams. The sync covers current and upcoming projects, proposed approaches, common patterns, architecture, security, governance, reuse opportunities, dependencies, risks, platform needs, and lessons learned, supporting delivery while maintaining enterprise consistency and platform integrity. Evolver is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics. Actual salary depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, market, and work location. The annual salary for this position in the San Francisco Bay Area is $130,000 to $145,000.

Requirements

5 years of working experience with Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.
5 years of working experience with Copilot Studio.
5 years of working experience with SharePoint.
5 years of working experience with Microsoft Foundry.
5 years of working experience with generative AI platforms and tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft AI capabilities.
Bachelor's degree or 7 years of working experience in the related field.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the productivity and automation roadmap with Platform Owners, aligned with business priorities and technology strategy.
Identify opportunities to use automation, AI, and Microsoft 365 to simplify work, improve employee productivity, and modernize business processes.
Define expected business outcomes and measures of success.
Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, dependencies, and strategic alignment.
Translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Partner with engineering and Platform Owners to evaluate solution options, complexity, dependencies, and technical feasibility.
Make prioritization and scope trade-offs across competing business demands.
Partner with Product Domain teams to understand workflows, pain points, and automation or AI opportunities.
Guide initiatives toward reusable enterprise capabilities rather than isolated point solutions where practical.
Coordinate dependencies across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, AI, security, data, and other enterprise platforms.
Enable Citizen Developers to safely build workflow automation and productivity solutions using approved enterprise platforms.
Promote adoption of approved AI tools and identify high-value AI use cases.
Partner with Platform Owners to establish patterns, guardrails, reusable components, training, and best practices for responsible self-service development.
Help transition successful citizen-developed solutions into appropriately governed and supported enterprise solutions when needed.
Facilitate a weekly 1–2 hour SharePoint development sync for embedded development teams.
Use the SharePoint development sync to review projects and approaches, align on patterns and standards, identify reuse opportunities and dependencies, surface risks and platform needs, and share lessons learned.