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Senior Project Manager (Remote, Contract)

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Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

Senior level

eCommerce • Analytics

The Role

Independently leads complex Adobe platform projects across multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, and dependencies. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, resources, quality, governance, risks, financials, and delivery recovery. Coordinates integrations, data flows, environments, and deployments across development, QA, staging, and production. Facilitates senior stakeholder decisions, mentors project managers, improves delivery standards, and supports continuous improvement. The remote contract role requires travel up to 30%.

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Position Overview
The Senior Project Manager independently leads complex projects and engagements across multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, vendors, and delivery dependencies. This role integrates scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, governance, and change into a coherent delivery approach, using sound judgment to navigate ambiguity, manage tradeoffs, and maintain momentum when plans or assumptions change.
The role anticipates delivery risks, facilitates difficult tradeoff and recovery discussions, and gives senior stakeholders clear, decision-ready recommendations. It also mentors project managers and strengthens governance and delivery discipline while remaining focused on assigned projects rather than assuming ownership of a broader program or account portfolio.
Location: Remote – United States
Please note this is a contract role.

Key Responsibilities

Complex Project Delivery

Independently own delivery of complex projects and engagements with minimal oversight, aligning delivery activities to intended client outcomes.
Build and maintain integrated plans across workstreams, milestones, teams, vendors, and dependencies; coordinate cross-functional contributors through ambiguity and changing priorities.
Apply sound judgment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, resource, commercial, and delivery-recovery tradeoffs as conditions change.
Protect quality, acceptance criteria, operational readiness, team health, and delivery commitments throughout the project lifecycle.

Risk, Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

Anticipate risks and constraints, develop contingency and recovery plans, and escalate material issues with clear analysis and recommendations.
Lead complex governance forums and stakeholder discussions; communicate delivery health, options, impacts, decisions, and required actions clearly.
Manage project financials, forecasts, change requests, resource needs, commitments, and delivery variances with the appropriate business and delivery partners.

Adobe Platform & Cross-Team Coordination

Coordinate technical delivery across relevant Adobe Experience Cloud platforms and integrations, aligning workstreams, data flows, environments, and deployment dependencies.
Work effectively with technical and business teams across platform implementations, integrations, migrations, and environment promotion from development and QA through staging and production.

Team Development & Continuous Improvement

Mentor Associate Project Managers and Project Managers through coaching, plan reviews, and practical delivery guidance.
Strengthen project standards, reusable practices, reporting, and lessons learned within the assigned delivery area

Required Skills & Experience

Project Leadership & Delivery

4–8 years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent practical experience, managing projects or engagements.
Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex projects with multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, dependencies, vendors, or significant delivery risk.
Strong command of integrated project planning, scope and change control, scheduling, budgeting, resource coordination, quality, governance, and delivery reporting.
Sound judgment in resolving competing priorities and recommending scope, schedule, budget, resource, or recovery tradeoffs.
Experience anticipating delivery risks, creating mitigation or recovery plans, and escalating material decisions with actionable recommendations.
Ability to manage project financials, forecasts, commitments, change requests, and delivery variances in partnership with relevant teams.

Stakeholder & Team Collaboration

Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading complex stakeholder forums and presenting decision-ready options to senior audiences.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional client and internal teams through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and changing delivery conditions.
Experience coaching or mentoring less experienced project delivery practitioners and reinforcing consistent project discipline.

Adobe & Technical Delivery Context

Working familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud delivery contexts, such as Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Real-Time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP), Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO), Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Commerce, Workfront, or Marketo Engage, as relevant to the engagement.
Understanding of technical integration dependencies, data flows, multi-environment delivery, and release or deployment coordination across development, QA, staging, and production.
Experience with Agile, scaled Agile, or CI/CD-enabled delivery models and complex cross-team integration efforts.

Preferred Qualifications / Experience

Experience leading Adobe platform implementations, migrations, or integrations involving multiple technical and business workstreams.
Experience improving project governance, reporting, reusable delivery practices, or lessons-learned processes.

Role Expectations

Operate independently on complex work with minimal oversight, using strong judgment to solve problems and improve delivery outcomes.
Mentor junior team members and contribute to the success and delivery discipline of the broader project team.
Travel up to 30% as project and client needs require.
Maintain an 85% utilization target.

Skills Required

4-8 years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent practical experience, managing projects or engagements.
Experience independently leading complex projects with multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, dependencies, vendors, or significant delivery risk.
Strong command of integrated project planning, scope and change control, scheduling, budgeting, resource coordination, quality, governance, and delivery reporting.
Sound judgment resolving competing priorities and recommending scope, schedule, budget, resource, or recovery tradeoffs.
Experience anticipating delivery risks, creating mitigation or recovery plans, and escalating material decisions with actionable recommendations.
Ability to manage project financials, forecasts, commitments, change requests, and delivery variances.
Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading complex stakeholder forums and presenting decision-ready options to senior audiences.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional client and internal teams through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and changing delivery conditions.
Experience coaching or mentoring less experienced project delivery practitioners and reinforcing consistent project discipline.
Working familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud delivery contexts, including relevant Adobe platforms and products.
Understanding of technical integration dependencies, data flows, multi-environment delivery, and release or deployment coordination across development, QA, staging, and production.
Experience with Agile, scaled Agile, or CI/CD-enabled delivery models and complex cross-team integration efforts.
Experience leading Adobe platform implementations, migrations, or integrations involving multiple technical and business workstreams.
Experience improving project governance, reporting, reusable delivery practices, or lessons-learned processes.