Accela

Technical Project Manager

Accela

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Lead enterprise-wide technology and engineering initiatives from concept to delivery. Manage a portfolio of complex, high-impact programs and ensure they land on time, and within scope.
  • Partner closely with the Director of Product and Engineering Operations and cross-functional stakeholders to define project goals, success metrics, and delivery roadmaps.
  • Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are clear, complete, and actionable before execution. Identify gaps, raise risks, and prevent teams from moving forward with unclear inputs.
  • Drive cross-functional consensus on designs, trade-offs, and key decisions. Ensure stakeholders are heard, decisions are understood, and teams are aligned before moving forward.
  • Build scalable frameworks for project tracking, reporting, and governance. Deliver consistent, data-driven updates to business leaders and executives.
  • Drive planning, prioritization, and execution in agile environments, ensuring adaptability while keeping teams aligned to outcomes.
  • Anticipate cross-team dependencies, facilitate project reviews, and create risk mitigation plans that resolve issues before they derail delivery.
  • Provide transparent, no-spin progress updates to executives and stakeholders. Hold leaders and teams accountable to commitments.
  • Identify and implement improvements in process, tooling, and resource planning to keep teams efficient and programs predictable.
  • Promote data-driven decision-making and agile ways of working across the organization, raising the bar for how we deliver.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of project/program management experience within data, analytics, or technology environments.
  • Proven experience managing large, cross-functional, high-impact projects across multiple teams.
  • Strong grasp of requirements management, readiness assessments, and work breakdown structures.
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, able to bridge technical and business conversations.
  • Adept at using project management tools and reporting frameworks.
  • PMP, Agile, or Scrum certification.
  • Strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to adapt in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
Benefits
  • Accela offers a competitive salary and benefits in line with local standards.
  • remote work options
  • generous paid time off with paid holidays
  • paid annual leave
  • paid “wellness days” offered sporadically throughout the year
  • company “soft-close” during the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
  • encouragement of promoting from within

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
project managementrequirements managementwork breakdown structuresdata analysisagile methodologiesrisk mitigationprogram managementportfolio managementscalable frameworksdata-driven decision-making
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingadaptabilitycross-functional collaborationconsensus buildingaccountabilitytransparencystrategic thinking
Certifications
PMPAgile certificationScrum certification