Senior Project Manager, Business Transformation
Project Manager at Algolia who leads individual workstreams inside a broader business transformation program, owning end-to-end delivery of process redesign, systems implementation, and change projects (scope, schedule, budget, risk) with cross-functional stakeholders. Requires 6+ years of PM experience, tools like Smartsheet and Jira, and a US Eastern Time base.
- Compensation
- $129.5K–$160K / yr
- Location
- United States Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years of project management experience, ideally including business transformation, process improvement, or systems implementation projects
- 6+ years of experience managing multiple end-to-end project life cycles
- Ability to identify project risks and prepare contingency and recovery plans
- Ability to quickly gain the trust and respect of senior stakeholders internally and with outside vendors
- Experience in budgeting, scoping, scheduling, and driving projects from initiation to delivery
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and drive alignment across business users and vendors
- Strong working knowledge of project management fundamentals: charters, schedules, budgets, risk registers, change control
- Comfort working in both structured (waterfall) and iterative (Agile) delivery environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication, able to translate technical or operational complexity for executive audiences
- Experience with project tracking tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence) and standard reporting formats
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Based in US Eastern Time
Nice to have
- Experience in Business Transformation projects including design change strategy, stakeholder impact assessment, and organizational readiness
Full description
Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.
We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead individual workstreams within our broader business transformation program. You will help support the implementation, development and iteration of workstreams within a program within the overall business transformation strategy. You'll be responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects that improve how the business operates - spanning process redesign, systems implementation, and organizational change; while working closely with the Transformation Lead and business stakeholders to ensure outcomes stick.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects: scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality
- Translate a transformation charter into a detailed project plan with clear milestones, owners, and dependencies
- Run regular status reporting (RYG statuses) and escalate risks and blockers before they become critical
- Facilitate cross-functional working sessions with stakeholders across Ops, IT, Finance, and other impacted teams
- Maintain project's RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and drive mitigation actions to closure
- Manage resource needs in coordination with the team’s capacity planning process
- Partner with change management resources to ensure adoption, not just technical completion of project deliverables
- Conduct stage reviews and present go/no-go recommendations to the steering committee
- Run post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned for the broader team members
- Oversee implementation, delivery and closure of multiple projects to ensure they are delivered on time, within budget, and on schedule
- Liaise with stakeholders to define the scope, timeline, resources required and define any risk management plans
- Define clear roles and responsibilities of the participating team members within each initiative
- Lead multiple project streams with successful turnarounds to achieve timelines
- Identify risks, prepare contingency and recovery plans in the event of project delays