Project Manager US

About DEUNA 🧡

DEUNA is a rapidly growing startup revolutionizing global commerce with ATHIA, our AI-powered orchestration and payments platform that helps large enterprises boost approval rates, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue. Built by the team behind DEUNA—the fastest-growing Commerce OS in Latin America—ATHIA combines payment intelligence, checkout optimization, and data orchestration in one powerful solution.

With deep integrations across 300+ PSPs and alternative payment methods, and over 20% of Mexico’s digital economy running through our platform, we simplify global payments through a single integration and centralized reconciliation.

We are a rapidly growing startup expanding into the U.S. to meet the urgent needs of large retailers, marketplaces, airlines, and QSRs. Join us to shape the future of payments! 🚀

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The role is primarily focused on project orchestration, stakeholder alignment, governance, risk management, and executive visibility, rather than owning the technical implementation or day-to-day customer implementation activities. The Strategic Project Manager will bring structure to complex initiatives, proactively identify dependencies and blockers, drive accountability across teams, and ensure timely decision-making and escalation when needed.

Key Responsibilities

-Lead and coordinate strategic, cross-functional projects for DEUNA’s key enterprise accounts in the US.
-Own the overall project plan, milestones, timelines, dependencies, risks, and governance.
-Coordinate across Customer Success, Sales, Product, Operations, Finance, Legal, Risk, and Technology teams to ensure alignment and accountability.
-Establish clear project governance, communication cadences, ownership, and escalation paths.
-Identify and proactively manage risks, blockers, and cross-functional dependencies.
-Drive decision-making and resolution of critical issues to keep projects on track.
-Provide clear and structured project updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
-Coordinate business-critical customer milestones and ensure organizational readiness across internal teams.
-Maintain visibility into project health, progress, risks, and key decisions through structured reporting and dashboards.
-Facilitate project retrospectives and identify opportunities to improve DEUNA’s operating model and project execution.
-Ensure projects remain aligned with customer objectives and DEUNA’s broader business priorities.
-Influence teams and drive accountability without direct reporting authority.

5+ years of experience in Project Management, Strategic Operations, Program Management, Management Consulting, or similar cross-functional roles.