Senior Project Manager

Reposted 16 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Illinois, USA
Remote
96K-144K Annually
Senior level
Legal Tech • Software
Organize data. Discover the truth. Act on it.
The Role
The Senior Project Manager will lead complex initiatives, manage cross-functional projects, ensure audit readiness, and drive strategic development across financial systems.
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Posting Type

Hybrid

Job Overview

Role Overview:
We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact, enterprise-wide initiatives at the intersection of internal technology, financial systems, and ongoing technical project delivery. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, can bring structure to ambiguity, and is energized by driving projects that directly influence company-wide outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
In the near term, this role will play a critical part in leading our IT General Controls (ITGC) program—ensuring audit readiness, managing cross-functional testing cycles, and strengthening operational rigor across the organization. In parallel, you’ll drive strategic technical and business initiatives that span across our financial systems and enable scalability for our growing company.
This role sits within Global Business Operations and reports directly to the Senior Director, offering strong visibility and influence. Over time, this position is expected to transition into the Project Management Office (PMO), making it an excellent opportunity for someone looking to grow into a broader program leadership role.

Job Description and Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive business critical projects to completion, owning discovery to delivery and holding yourself and the project team accountable to meeting timelines Demonstrate exceptional project management skills through building and managing integrated project plans across teams, aligning scope, timelines, dependencies, and resources  

  • Act as a key partner to leaders within IT, Finance, and other operational stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable plans  

  • Proactively identify risks, remove blockers, and keep initiatives on track in fast-moving environments  

  • Deliver clear, concise updates to stakeholders, including senior leadership, and drive alignment on priorities and outcomes  

  • Identify and implement improvements to project delivery, governance, and cross-functional collaboration  

  • Support best practices in project management and help elevate capabilities across teams  

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or programs  

  • Proven ability to lead enterprise-level initiatives from planning through execution  

  • Strong experience managing technical and cross functional projects with IT enterprise and financial stems in scope (e.g. ERP, ITGC) 

  • Exceptional communication skills, including experience working with senior leadership  

  • Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity 

  • Demonstrated success managing multiple stakeholders, priorities, and dependencies simultaneously  

  • Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)   

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with ITGC, audit, or compliance-related programs

  • PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification

  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Asana, Salesforce, and Excel

  • Background in high-growth or scaling organizations

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

$96,000 and $144,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position. 

Required Skills:

Budget Management, Change Management, Leadership, Process Improvements, Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning, Team Leadership, Vendor Management

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or programs
  • Proven ability to lead enterprise-level initiatives from planning through execution
  • Strong experience managing technical and cross functional projects with IT enterprise and financial systems
  • Exceptional communication skills, including experience working with senior leadership
  • Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity
  • Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
  • Experience with ITGC, audit, or compliance-related programs
  • PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification
  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Asana, Salesforce, and Excel

Relativity Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Relativity and has not been reviewed or approved by Relativity.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off options include discretionary time off and two company‑wide breaks each year, providing additional recharge time.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telehealth access, and wellness resources such as a Headspace subscription.
  • Parental & Family Support North America offers up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with comparable regional programs in EMEA and APAC.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,550 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

At Relativity, we build innovative and comprehensive tools for making sense of unstructured data. When more people can find the facts in mountains of documents, emails, and texts, more legal and data-centric matters can be resolved equitably. Join us in our mission to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity does not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind. We do not accept unfair treatment of any person or group of people. We’re committed to advocating for change to make our world a more inclusive, just place.

Why Work With Us

We believe in our team members and we want to help you own your career as part of a community of values-driven people who help customers around the world solve complex data challenges. At Relativity, you’ll take on challenging work, but you’ll also partner with talented colleagues and pursue plenty of learning and development opportunities.

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