The Role
The Project Manager oversees project planning and execution, manages resources, communicates expectations, enforces policies, and ensures financial objectives are met while mentoring team members and promoting process improvements.
Summary Generated by Built In
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
The Project Manager concentrates on the planning, execution, and finalization of projects according to client timelines and budget constraints. The Project Manager’s duties include managing resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, both internal and external, to deliver projects according to plan.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Act as engagement lead on customer engagements
- Communicate job expectations to team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job
contributions accordingly. - Enforce policies and procedures for each project
- Achieve operational objectives by:
o Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews
o Preparing and completing action plans
o Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards
o Resolving problems
o Determining system improvements
o Implementing change - Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing
variances, and initiating corrective actions. - Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications,
maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations. - Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and
different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. - Develop budgets and track budget expenses.
- Mentor team members and consistently provide performance management feedback.
- Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.
- Manage team members in a proficient and effective manner
- Promote process improvement.
- Must pursue professional self-development opportunities on a regular basis.
Skill Requirements
- 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
- Possess excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ability to manage client expectations including in areas of scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction.
- Able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
Use of AI:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
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You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience
- Excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage client expectations in scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction
- Capable of working independently and collaboratively
AHEAD Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AHEAD and has not been reviewed or approved by AHEAD.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) contributions are matched dollar-for-dollar on the first $5,000 each year, with matching made each pay period and immediate 100% vesting. This structure signals above-standard employer support for retirement savings.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical options include low employee premiums for PPO and HDHP plans, and the HDHP adds employer HSA funding plus a dollar-for-dollar HSA match up to stated amounts. Dental and vision plans list very low per-paycheck costs, helping keep overall healthcare spend manageable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — No-cost telemedicine (including virtual mental health when enrolled), free Calm access for the employee and dependents, and an EAP with counseling are included. Company-paid life and disability plus voluntary protections (legal/ID, pet insurance) and other extras round out a comprehensive set of supports.
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The Company
What We Do
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
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