Project Management Lead, Science

Amplify

4d•$160,000 - $166,000

About The Position

The Project Management Lead is the operational leader responsible for on-time, in-budget execution and delivery health across Amplify’s critical product portfolios or cross-cutting enterprise initiatives. The role partners with the Head of Product and leadership team on delivery strategy and organizational capability, oversees active project execution, and builds delivery systems that help cross-functional teams work effectively. It translates product or initiative strategy into realistic, high-velocity execution plans, while mentoring project managers and improving project management practices.

Requirements

5–8 years of experience with increasing people-management responsibility.
Proven experience leading project management or operations teams in an EdTech, publishing, or SaaS environment.
Deep fluency in Agile/Scrum for software and Waterfall for physical production, including coordinating the two approaches.
Experience managing at least 3–5 direct reports, with a track record of hiring, training, and retaining high-performing talent.
Comfort using and configuring advanced project management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, and Notion.
Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, designers, supply chain teammates, and content writers.
Ability to synthesize detailed project risks into clear health reports for product leadership.

Responsibilities

Design and implement the delivery framework, including operating rhythms, ceremonies, and artifact and tool standards.
Oversee project schedules, dependency maps, and resource plans, and communicate project health and status to teammates, stakeholders, and executives.
Coordinate curriculum writers and software engineers to align digital features with content needs and platform capabilities.
Own team resource-allocation models, identify burnout or under-utilization, and work with functional leads to rebalance staffing or adjust scope.
Lead risk management and issue resolution, surface trade-offs, communicate recovery plans, and drive blockers to resolution.
Monitor project spending and deliver projects within approved budgets; partner with Product Management leaders and Heads on annual budgets, re-forecasts, and five-year plans.
Collaborate with Supply Chain and Production to improve the print-to-digital hand-off and define readiness standards for physical production.
Evaluate and select vendors, negotiate terms, set performance standards, monitor vendor performance, and recommend renewals, expansions, or terminations.
Identify and implement AI-powered tools in project management workflows to improve development efficiency and reduce administrative work.
Directly manage and develop a team of project managers.
Contribute to organization-wide project management standards, templates, tooling decisions, and ways of working, and advise peers on complex delivery challenges.