Project Manager

This is a remote position.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead strategic business initiatives through the full project lifecycle. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, business analysis, governance, and project delivery expertise. The successful candidate will work across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive successful project outcomes while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead one or more projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes.
  
• Lead discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering activities to establish clear business objectives, scope boundaries, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables.
  
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance discussions to support informed decision-making and project success.
  
• Develop and maintain project management plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, governance processes, and status reporting mechanisms.
  
• Manage project scope by assessing proposed changes, identifying impacts, preparing recommendations, and facilitating appropriate governance decisions.
  
• Coordinate the planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of project deliverables across internal teams, external vendors, consultants, and stakeholders.
  
• Coordinate and support the delivery of communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, or stakeholder-engagement workstreams.
  
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, business leaders, and delivery teams while leading cross-functional teams to ensure effective collaboration and successful delivery outcomes.
  
• Monitor project performance and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
  
• Prepare and present project updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision materials for sponsors, governance bodies, and executive stakeholders.
  
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement activities.
  
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements-gathering approaches, stakeholder engagement practices, and organizational project management maturity.
  

Required Experience

• 5-8 years of business experience, including 3-4 years leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities.
  
• Experience managing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle.
  
• Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes.
  
• Experience leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions.
  
• Experience establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts from scope changes.
  
• Experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across multiple business units and teams.
  
• Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests.
  
• Experience leading Agile, hybrid, and traditional project delivery initiatives.
  
• Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  
• Experience presenting project updates, recommendations, risks, and decisions to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
  
• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  
• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent project management certification.
  

Asset Experience

• Communications and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
  
• Public engagement, advocacy, awareness, or branding activities.
  
• Stakeholder partnership coordination.
  
• Vendor, industry organization, customer, or government stakeholder engagement.
  
• Marketing, digital delivery, content production, campaign management, event coordination, or related initiatives.
  

Required Skills

• Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities.
  
• Strong requirements gathering, business analysis, and scope definition experience.
  
• Workshop facilitation and stakeholder interview expertise.
  
• Advanced stakeholder management and consensus-building abilities.
  
• Risk, issue, dependency, and change management expertise.
  
• Governance and executive reporting experience.
  
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
  
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
  
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  
• Ability to coach stakeholders on project delivery methodologies.
  
• Experience using Microsoft 365 and project management tools.
  
• Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

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