Leads complex Adobe platform projects across multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, and technical dependencies. Owns scope, schedules, budgets, quality, resources, governance, risks, financials, and delivery recovery. Coordinates integrations, data flows, migrations, and environment promotion across development, QA, staging, and production. Facilitates senior stakeholder decisions, mentors project managers, and improves governance and delivery practices.
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
Key Responsibilities
Complex Project Delivery
Required Skills & Experience
Project Leadership & Delivery
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
Role Expectations
Compensation
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
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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, 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.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $130,000 - $165,000 annually. Actual compensation may vary depending on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors.
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