Location: Remote (United States)
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: $75,000–$85,000 annually
Travel: Approximately 25%
Role Type: Individual Contributor
ELB Learning is seeking a client-focused Project Manager to lead LXT custom development projects from kickoff through final delivery. The Project Manager owns the project plan, client communication, scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and reporting while coordinating cross-functional learning and development teams.
Key ResponsibilitiesLead assigned projects from sales handoff and kickoff through final acceptance and closeout.
Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, budgets, forecasts, and resource assignments.
Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact and lead kickoff meetings, status calls, milestone reviews, and project communications.
Establish and manage the approved baseline for scope, schedule, budget, and resources.
Monitor project health, progress, hours, financial performance, and upcoming deliverables; address variances early.
Maintain accurate status reports, RAID logs, decisions, action items, approvals, and project documentation.
Coordinate instructional design, creative, development, quality assurance, and other project resources.
Manage client inputs, review cycles, consolidated feedback, approvals, and acceptance criteria.
Identify and mitigate risks, resolve blockers, and escalate issues requiring leadership support.
Manage scope changes through documented impact assessment, approval, and change control.
Ensure internal quality reviews and required stage gates are completed before client delivery.
Lead project closeout, including final acceptance, financial reconciliation, documentation, and lessons learned.
Bachelor's degree in business, project management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Three or more years of project management experience, including responsibility for client-facing delivery.
Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing deadlines and priorities.
Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and changes.
Strong client communication, meeting facilitation, organization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams in a fast-paced delivery environment.
Proficiency with project management, collaboration, and document-sharing tools.
Experience managing custom learning and development, eLearning, training-content, or digital-production projects.
CAPM® (Certified Associate in Project Management), PMP® (Project Management Professional), or comparable certification.
Project planning and execution
Client and stakeholder management
Scope, schedule, budget, and resource management
Risk mitigation and issue resolution
Financial and delivery accountability
Cross-functional leadership
Clear communication and professional judgment
Join a collaborative team delivering custom learning solutions for leading organizations. You will manage meaningful client engagements, partner with talented learning professionals, and help strengthen consistent, high-quality project delivery across ELB Learning.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Education, Project Management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Proven experience managing projects or production within the learning and development industry
- Working knowledge of instructional design principles and eLearning production workflows
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Experience using project management software and collaboration tools (Planview experience mentioned)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams (ID, Creative, Development, QA, Learning Strategy)
- Familiarity with Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- 3+ years managing projects under U.S. Government contracts (prime or subcontractor)
- Proficiency using Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar scheduling tools to develop and maintain Gantt charts
- U.S. Citizenship with ability to successfully pass a federal background investigation
- Ability to travel approximately 25% including customer sites and military installations
- Located in Texas, New Mexico, or Oklahoma (preferred but candidates elsewhere in continental U.S. considered)
- Active (or recently active) Secret Security Clearance or higher
- Military service or prior experience as a U.S. Government civilian
- Experience supporting federal learning and development programs
What We Do
ELB Learning is a one-stop shop for creating and delivering better learning experiences. We offer the most comprehensive suite of products and services to help you conquer your training challenges. Our products include tools for building learning games, virtual reality training, eLearning courses, and video-based practice, as well as an LXP and LMS. We also offer learning strategy services, custom learning development and staff augmentation. You can build interactive online learning and immersive VR courses with Lectora authoring tool and CenarioVR virtual reality course builder. Our AssetLibrary offers everything you need build content that is engaging, interactive, and inspiring. Choose from games, interactions, layouts, scenarios, navigation players, characters, and more. We also specialize in custom-designed eLearning that delights our customers with deeply immersive and visually explosive eLearning experiences! We help companies create online learning twice as fast, and we can help you make it twice as effective and more engaging for your learners. We've been able to create custom online learning courses that help our clients save time, headaches and money. Our team has developed eLearning templates and courses for major Fortune 500 companies, and won a number of industry awards, including several Brandon Hall Group awards. Other learning services we offer include learning strategy and staff augmentation. We also offer hundreds of microlearning, off-the-shelf courses on topics like professional development, soft skills, and safety. Don't have a learning platform to deliver your courses? Use the Rockstar Learning Platform to easily deliver and manage your learning programs. For more information, call 801-796-2767.
