Senior Project Manager (Remote, Contract)

Blue Acorn iCi•,

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager independently leads complex projects and engagements across multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, vendors, and delivery dependencies. The role integrates scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, governance, and change into a coherent delivery approach, using sound judgment to navigate ambiguity, manage tradeoffs, and maintain momentum when plans or assumptions change. The Senior Project Manager anticipates delivery risks, facilitates difficult tradeoff and recovery discussions, and provides senior stakeholders with clear, decision-ready recommendations. The role mentors project managers and strengthens governance and delivery discipline while focusing on assigned projects rather than owning a broader program or account portfolio. The position is remote within the United States, is contract-based, may require travel up to 30% as project and client needs require, and has an 85% utilization target.

Requirements

4–8 years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent practical experience, managing projects or engagements.
Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex projects with multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, dependencies, vendors, or significant delivery risk.
Strong command of integrated project planning, scope and change control, scheduling, budgeting, resource coordination, quality, governance, and delivery reporting.
Sound judgment in resolving competing priorities and recommending scope, schedule, budget, resource, or recovery tradeoffs.
Experience anticipating delivery risks, creating mitigation or recovery plans, and escalating material decisions with actionable recommendations.
Ability to manage project financials, forecasts, commitments, change requests, and delivery variances in partnership with relevant teams.
Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading complex stakeholder forums and presenting decision-ready options to senior audiences.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional client and internal teams through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and changing delivery conditions.
Experience coaching or mentoring less experienced project delivery practitioners and reinforcing consistent project discipline.
Working familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud delivery contexts, such as Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP), Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO), Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Commerce, Workfront, or Marketo Engage, as relevant to the engagement.
Understanding of technical integration dependencies, data flows, multi-environment delivery, and release or deployment coordination across development, QA, staging, and production.
Experience with Agile, scaled Agile, or CI/CD-enabled delivery models and complex cross-team integration efforts.
For US-based roles, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading Adobe platform implementations, migrations, or integrations involving multiple technical and business workstreams.
Experience improving project governance, reporting, reusable delivery practices, or lessons-learned processes.

Responsibilities

Independently own delivery of complex projects and engagements with minimal oversight, aligning delivery activities to intended client outcomes.
Build and maintain integrated plans across workstreams, milestones, teams, vendors, and dependencies; coordinate cross-functional contributors through ambiguity and changing priorities.
Apply judgment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, resource, commercial, and delivery-recovery tradeoffs as conditions change.
Protect quality, acceptance criteria, operational readiness, team health, and delivery commitments throughout the project lifecycle.
Anticipate risks and constraints, develop contingency and recovery plans, and escalate material issues with clear analysis and recommendations.
Lead complex governance forums and stakeholder discussions; communicate delivery health, options, impacts, decisions, and required actions clearly.
Manage project financials, forecasts, change requests, resource needs, commitments, and delivery variances with business and delivery partners.
Coordinate technical delivery across relevant Adobe Experience Cloud platforms and integrations, aligning workstreams, data flows, environments, and deployment dependencies.
Work with technical and business teams on platform implementations, integrations, migrations, and environment promotion from development and QA through staging and production.
Mentor Associate Project Managers and Project Managers through coaching, plan reviews, and practical delivery guidance.
Strengthen project standards, reusable practices, reporting, and lessons learned within the assigned delivery area.
Travel up to 30% as project and client needs require.