Sr IT Project Manager
Newfold Digital
PMPSDLC
Senior Systems Project Manager
Smartsheet
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
SDLC
About the role
- Lead concurrent cross-functional projects of varying complexity through all phases of the project management lifecycle, including discovery, planning, execution, and closure
- Facilitate the project discovery process, ensuring projects are aligned with strategic goals and deliver measurable benefits
- Leverage Smartsheet’s project framework, which combines waterfall-based discovery with agile execution
- Define and manage project scope, schedule, resources, milestones and deliverables
- Create structure in ambiguous, evolving, or ad hoc settings
- Align stakeholders across business and technical domains with strong leadership
- Establish stakeholder alignment and actively manage stakeholder engagement
- Create and maintain project documentation including RAID logs, dashboards, delivery plans, and lessons learned
- Proactively escalate risks, drive decision-making, and model ownership of outcomes
- Collaborate with resource managers to manage project team allocations and forecast project needs
- Communicate trade-offs between customer expectations, team capacity, and technical feasibility to business partners and align on prioritization
- Build trust and credibility with technical and business partners through transparency, follow-through and clarity
- Provide technical and analytical guidance to project teams
- Act as a cultural contributor to the IT PMO by sharing best practices, mentoring peers, and supporting the maturity of how projects are delivered
Requirements
- 8+ years of focused project management experience, including large cross-functional systems or integration projects
- 6+ years experience leading IT or enterprise systems-related initiatives
- Flexibility to align to multiple timezones
- Strong understanding of project management standards and best practices (PMI, PMBOK, SDLC)
- Experience managing projects in both waterfall and agile (“wagile”) environments
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership
- Ability to drive accountability without authority; strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills
- Familiarity with risk management, SOX compliance, and IT general controls
- Commitment to continuously improving team performance, tools, and practices
- Demonstrated strong judgement, influence across stakeholders, and ability to lead with structure in evolving and ambiguous environments
