Technical Project Manager, MarTech

Blend360•New York, NY

9d•$75 - $80•Onsite

About The Position

Blend is seeking a MarTech Project Manager for a leading global financial services organization’s Marketing Data Platform organization. The role coordinates delivery of customer data and marketing platform capabilities, serving as a liaison among business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors. It supports a large-scale marketing data platform migration and modernization initiative through project governance, cross-functional planning, stakeholder communication, and execution in a complex, regulated environment. The Project Manager coordinates project plans, milestones, dependencies, workstreams, and delivery tracking; monitors risks and blockers; facilitates governance and stakeholder forums; and communicates status and business impacts, including to senior leadership. The role also supports cloud-based data platform work involving Snowflake and Databricks, customer data and marketing capabilities, and migration activities. It maintains project knowledge resources and documentation, including Confluence spaces, implementation guides, decision records, and reporting libraries. This is an approximately 12-month consulting role with the possibility of extension, based in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. The candidate must be able to work on Blend’s W-2 without sponsorship. The starting pay rate is $75–$80 per hour; actual compensation depends on relevant factors.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in project management, program delivery, marketing technology, data platform initiatives, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects within large enterprise organizations.
Experience coordinating business and technology stakeholders, vendors, and multiple delivery workstreams.
Experience supporting data platform modernization, migration, customer data, or marketing technology initiatives.
Practical knowledge of cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks sufficient to understand dependencies, coordinate delivery, and communicate with technical teams.
Familiarity with first-, second-, and third-party datasets and their use in customer data or marketing environments.
Experience applying Agile methodologies, including Scrum or Kanban, as well as Waterfall or stage-gate delivery approaches.
Ability to manage hybrid project environments involving iterative development, fixed deadlines, multiple approvals, and cross-functional dependencies.
Experience building and maintaining project plans, dashboards, milestone trackers, status reports, and RAID logs.
Familiarity with Confluence or similar knowledge management and documentation tools.
Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, issue escalation, and delivery tracking.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating complex technical topics in business-friendly language.
Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to coordinate across business, technology, operations, and vendor teams.
Confidence facilitating meetings, governance forums, steering committee discussions, and project reviews.
Ability to translate technical and creative blockers into business impact for senior leadership.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying risks, resolving blockers, and maintaining project momentum.
Comfort navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and driving accountability in a complex, matrixed organization.
Must be able to work on Blend’s W-2 without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated environment is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinate planning and execution of marketing technology, customer data, and platform modernization initiatives.
Liaise with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to facilitate alignment and advance project deliverables.
Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and delivery tracking.
Coordinate cross-functional activities and stakeholder engagement so teams have the information, resources, and direction needed to meet objectives.
Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches according to project needs, including business requirements and regulatory review processes.
Track workstream progress, identify delivery risks and blockers, and coordinate their resolution or escalation.
Establish and maintain project governance practices, including meeting coordination, status reporting, decision documentation, and stakeholder communications.
Prepare and maintain project dashboards, milestone trackers, and risk, issue, and dependency (RAID) logs.
Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee discussions, sprint reviews, and project retrospectives.
Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery impacts to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
Translate technical or operational challenges into clear business implications and actionable updates for non-technical audiences.
Keep stakeholders aligned on priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and next steps throughout the project lifecycle.
Support initiatives involving customer data, marketing platform capabilities, data activation, and platform modernization.
Gather, organize, and validate business, technical, and operational inputs to support planning and delivery.
Coordinate activities, dependencies, and implementation milestones with teams responsible for cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.
Maintain a working understanding of first-, second-, and third-party data and how these datasets support marketing and customer engagement capabilities.
Coordinate business and technical teams to help align platform enhancements and migration activities with business needs and operational requirements.
Support delivery in a regulated environment where customer data governance, compliance, and stakeholder alignment are important.
Establish and maintain project knowledge resources, including Confluence spaces, documentation repositories, implementation guides, and reporting libraries.
Keep project documentation accurate, organized, current, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
Document key decisions, processes, dependencies, implementation considerations, and action items.
Develop consistent reporting and documentation practices that improve transparency, knowledge sharing, and continuity across workstreams.
Help retain and make critical project knowledge available throughout the migration and modernization lifecycle.