Project Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous or fast changing business environments.
• Strong collaborator who builds trust across technical, operational, and business stakeholder groups.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes with minimal direction.
• Solid understanding of project management fundamentals, software development life cycles, and cross-functional delivery practices.
• Experience supporting PMO governance practices, including intake, milestone tracking, project health reporting, risk management, and escalation routines.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to summarize risks, decisions, impacts, and next steps clearly and concisely.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and promote accountability, transparency, and follow-through across project teams.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills related to project health, dependencies, risks, capacity, and readiness.
• Excellent facilitation, organization, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of project management experience in software, technology, business operations, or PMO environments.
• Experience supporting portfolio reporting, project governance, operational readiness, or cross-functional launch activities.
• CAPM, CSM, or equivalent project management certification is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, communications, or related field.
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Zoho, SharePoint, or similar project tracking and collaboration platforms.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams; experience with PMO reporting, dashboards, or project portfolio tools is a plus.
• Accountability
• Analytical Thinking
• Budgeting
• Leading Project Teams
• Meeting Organization
• Project Implementations
• Project Scope Development
• Strategic Objectives
• Strategic Planning
• Accuracy and Attention to Detail
• Consulting
• Effective Communications
• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
• Organizational Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Project Administration
• Project Management

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional software and business operations initiatives while ensuring alignment to PMO standards, governance expectations, and business priorities.
• Partner with product, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to clarify scope, requirements, success criteria, dependencies, and readiness needs.
• Support portfolio-level visibility by maintaining accurate project health, milestone, dependency, risk, issue, and capacity reporting.
• Drive consistent use of PMO tools, templates, intake processes, project plans, status reporting, and milestone tracking practices.
• Translate project activity into clear, executive-ready updates that highlight decisions needed, risks, impacts, and next steps.
• Identify process gaps and recommend practical improvements that strengthen consistency, scalability, and accountability across project teams.
• Coach and support business owners on PMO standards, requirement quality, stakeholder communication, and project discipline.
• Support PMO reporting, KPI tracking, lessons learned, and continuous improvement efforts across the project portfolio.
• Promote a culture of transparency, ownership, proactive communication, and disciplined planning across cross-functional teams.
• Manages the most complex projects from original concept through final implementation and post-project assessment.
• Accountable for meeting project objectives within established timeframes.
• May be assigned a single project or a portfolio, requiring extensive planning, oversight, and communication across multiple segments, channels, or lines of business.
• Develops strategy, processes, resource allocation, budget, guidelines and support of project management team.
• Partners with internal project liaisons to acquire resources, assigns tasks, directs activities, and controls project execution.
• Coaches and mentors project team members.
• Tracks and reports progress, analyzes the results based on facts, defines the products of the project, and forecasts future trends in the project.
• Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies potential crises, devises contingency plans and recommends improvements based on results.
• Maintains communications for governing bodies and interested parties.
• Communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service