Senior Project Manager

Ping Identity•Denver, CO

17h•$155,000 - $165,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Project Manager in Ping Identity’s Business Transformation Office, you will lead complex technology projects and business transformation initiatives, including AI-enabled transformation. You will focus project teams on high-value priorities, align technical delivery with business priorities, establish measurable outcomes and value measures, and help sponsors make timely decisions about scope, sequencing, and capacity. Working with stakeholders across Business, IT, Engineering, and Data teams, you will clarify outcomes, map current- and future-state workflows, surface system, data, and security dependencies, and coordinate solutions through design, build, testing, deployment, and adoption. You may represent progress against company priorities to executive leadership and help identify where AI and other technologies can create business value, shape feasible solution options, and support responsible implementation and adoption. This is a hybrid role based in Denver, Colorado, with required in-office attendance on Tuesdays. The role reports to the Director of Business Transformation Delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years in project or program management, delivering complex cross-functional technology initiatives or interdependent portfolios.
At least 3 years in transformation, technology delivery, operations, or consulting, with the ability to turn process needs into practical execution.
Experience leading complex projects involving AI/ML, data, analytics, automation, enterprise applications, or similar technologies.
Strong execution skills in scoping, requirements, integrated planning, risk and dependency management, change management, and outcome tracking.
Understanding of responsible AI, data governance, privacy, security, and compliance in enterprise technology delivery.
Denver-based hybrid role with required in-office attendance on Tuesdays.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI development, such as model development, data labeling, or model monitoring.
Experience delivering projects in software, cloud, data, or enterprise-application environments and connecting business goals to technical dependencies.
Ability to build trust with senior leaders, communicate candidly, navigate conflict, and influence across business and technology teams.
Experience leading cross-functional workstreams through technology, process, or AI/ML product delivery in a matrixed environment.
Ability to engage technical teams on architecture, integrations, data flows, model workflows, and system constraints without acting as the architect.
Active integration of AI into personal workflows to accelerate delivery and outcomes across initiatives.
PMP or an Agile certification in product or project management.
Comfort with project and collaboration tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, Jira, or Lucidchart.
Familiarity with software delivery lifecycles and Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid methods.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate cross-functional technology and transformation initiatives, aligning owners, milestones, and capacity; track related work owned by other teams as dependencies and provide project support only at the owning team’s request.
Translate business outcomes and stakeholder needs into executable project plans with clear scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, and documented technical, data, security, process, and change dependencies.
Partner with Product Managers; own project execution, planning, governance, dependencies, risks, and delivery while aligning with their ownership of product direction, roadmap, prioritization, and solution definition.
Lead AI transformation from process redesign through adoption; connect AI experiences to data, integrations, and systems of work; agree on success measures with sponsors, track business value, and guide follow-on investment.
Align business and technical stakeholders on goals, ownership, dependencies, and decisions; adapt as priorities shift, clear blockers, manage critical paths, escalate major conflicts early, and improve reusable delivery practices and tools.
When assigned as Solution Owner, facilitate solution design and integrate outputs from Business Analysts, Process Architect, and Technical Leads without replacing their specialist accountability.
Provide concise, audience-specific delivery updates and translate technical status, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and business impact into executive recommendations, escalations, and clear decisions or decision requests.
Communicate credibly across executive leadership, VP, and individual-contributor levels.