Stoneridge Software

Director of Project Management Office

Stoneridge Software

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $189,600 - $288,300 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Establish and mature a consultative PM model where project managers act as trusted advisors to clients and internal stakeholders, proactively manage scope, risk, value realization, and outcomes, and influence decisions, not just track tasks
  • Define PM role expectations, competencies, and career paths aligned to a consulting mindset
  • Coach and develop PMs to operate effectively in complex, multi-workstream engagements
  • Ensure PMs are embedded as strategic partners in client delivery
  • Design and lead a scalable PMO resource model that intentionally blends senior, consultative PMs with more tactical and administrative PM roles - ensuring the right level of leadership is applied to each engagement and all resources are fully utilized within their respective skill sets, strengths, and experiences
  • Respond to client escalation and provide project management where necessary on client facing projects
  • Own PMO contribution to delivery financial performance, including billable utilization, margin protection, forecast accuracy, change management and scope control
  • Partner with practice and delivery leaders to optimize resource allocation across projects, balance utilization targets with quality and sustainability, anticipate capacity needs and delivery risks, build systems, processes and tools to allow for accurate tracking of backlog to anticipate needs and adjustments
  • Ensure PMs actively manage project economics, not just schedules
  • Define and enforce delivery standards, playbooks, and governance models that scale
  • Evolve governance to be rightsized and value-driven, avoiding bureaucracy
  • Ensure consistent application of project initiation and readiness, financial and delivery reporting, risk, issue, and dependency management, and change control and decision escalation
  • Lead the use of technology and AI to reduce administrative overhead and improve insight, including automating status reporting, forecasting, and documentation, leveraging AI for meeting summaries, risk identification, and delivery insights, and reducing manual PM effort that does not directly contribute to client value
  • Partner with internal teams to select, implement, and optimize PMO tools and platforms
  • Champion continuous modernization of delivery operations through smart tooling
  • Serve as a key leader within delivery operations, driving process simplification, reduced delivery friction, and improved cross team collaboration
  • Use data and insights to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities
  • Lead retrospectives and improvement initiatives across projects and portfolios
  • Continuously refine delivery models to support growth, complexity, and scale
  • Partner with executive leadership on delivery strategy, capacity and investment decisions, and risk management and escalation
  • Collaborate closely with practice leaders, client success leadership, and sales and presales teams (as needed) to ensure delivery readiness
  • Represent the PMO as a strategic function, not a compliance layer

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in consulting delivery, project/program management, or delivery operations
  • Proven experience building or transforming a PMO within a consulting organization
  • Strong financial acumen with experience managing utilization, margin, and delivery economics
  • Demonstrated success leading teams through change and operational maturity
  • Experience leveraging technology, automation, and/or AI to improve delivery efficiency
  • Excellent executive communication, influence, and coaching skills
  • Consultative and outcome oriented
  • Comfortable balancing strategy with execution
  • Data driven, pragmatic, and improvement focused
  • Trusted advisor to executives and clients
  • Strong people leader who develops future delivery leaders
  • Ability to communicate effectively in both spoken and written English
Benefits
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) contribution program (US) or RRSP Benefits (Canada)
  • Life insurance
  • Disability Benefits
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid flexible time off
  • Paid sick time (US) or floater days (Canada)
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Mobile/internet reimbursement
  • Employee and family assistance program
  • Learning and development funding
  • Employer charitable contribution
  • Paid business mileage
  • Home office and wellness allowance (US Only)
  • HSA contribution (US Only)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementfinancial managementresource allocationchange managementrisk managementdelivery reportingutilization managementautomationAI integrationprocess improvement
Soft Skills
consultative mindsetcoachinginfluencecommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkingdata-driven decision makingcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solving