Get the chrome extension Sr. Project Manager
American College of Education
Who is American College of Education
Founded in 2005, American College of Education continues to be a leader in professional development through our online programs. The mission of ACE is to deliver high-quality, affordable, and accessible online programs grounded in evidence-based content, real-world experience and relevant application that places our students’ needs first.
ACE is a mission-driven institution continually recognized for its commitment to social responsibility and positive impact. As an Impact Institution, we believe we have a responsibility to our students, alumni, employees, communities, and society as a whole. Guided by our core values, we strive to create meaningful impact that extends well beyond our bottom line.
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Who You Are
You are a strategic delivery leader who can influence outcomes across the organization and align complex
initiatives to enterprise priorities. You bring a strong balance of execution, excellence, and strategic thinking,
ensuring delivery drives measurable business impact. You are enthusiastic about helping students achieve
their educational goals. You are comfortable operating in both structured and agile environments, applying
the right approach to achieving results. You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and are
effective at leading cross-functional teams toward shared goals. You communicate clearly and confidently
with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership, and bring a strong attention to detail in
managing complex delivery efforts. You are adaptable, pragmatic, and capable of driving accountability while
fostering team effectiveness. You are comfortable working remotely and have experience collaborating with
others in a virtual environment. You possess a strong attention to detail.
As the Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of
cross-functional initiatives through a combination of strong project management discipline and agile
practices. You ensure successful outcomes by integrating people, process, and technology—while also serving
as a Scrum Master where needed to support team execution, remove blockers, and drive continuous
improvement.
Compensation
ACE is committed to paying a competitive wage while staying true to our mission of maintaining high quality,
affordable programs for our students. The starting salary range for this position is $120,000 plus all full-time
employees are eligible for an annual bonus. Offers vary depending on education, prior experience, and
expertise being applied to the role.
What We Look for in the Ideal Candidate
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy and accountability across complex initiatives
- Proven ability to influence prioritization and trade-off decisions at the leadership level
- Strong ability to manage and resolve conflict across cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience driving alignment across competing business priorities.
- Ability to translate strategic goals into executable delivery plans.
- Demonstrated success improving delivery performance through metrics and process optimization.
- Experience driving organizational change and Agile transformation.
- Proven ability to align delivery to business strategy and measurable outcomes.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate at senior leadership levels.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and define structure where none exists.
- Ability to lead delivery in high-pressure environments with competing priorities.
- Drives collaboration and alignment across cross-functional teams and leadership stakeholders.
- Demonstrates self-reliance by meeting/exceeding workflow needs.
- Demonstrates positive attitude and motivation, concern for students, teamwork, and excellent time management skills.
- Follows established processes as outlined by organization and leadership.
- Completes assigned duties based on daily business needs and individual skill set.
- Consistently produces a high volume of quality work.
- Capable, adapts as needed, to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and with other department personnel.
- Must support and embrace the College’s Impact mission to improve the people and communities we serve through our civic engagement initiatives.
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- Must be "self-motivated" as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time critical problems.
- Must be collaborative in driving decisions and a team-player.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Builds and maintains student satisfaction.
- Recognizes and anticipates student needs.
Day to Day Responsibilities
In this role you will wear different hats, but your skills will be especially essential in the following areas:
- Leads the strategic application and evolution of Agile (Scrum and scaled frameworks) across multiple teams to align delivery with business objectives and measurable outcomes.
- Leads and coordinates multiple Agile teams and large, complex cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Defines and enforces project and initiative-level delivery governance, quality standards, and delivery best practices to improve predictability, scalability, and delivery performance.
- Drives proactive risk, dependency, and scope management across large projects and strategic
- initiatives, escalating and influencing executive stakeholders to resolve competing priorities and ensure delivery success.
- Establishes and drives data-driven delivery metrics (velocity, predictability, throughput, outcome based KPIs) to continuously improve team and project delivery performance.
- Leads cross-functional teams and influences stakeholders across all levels of the organization, while maintaining accurate project documentation.
- Leads executive-level communication, translating complex delivery insights into clear, actionable updates for senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Manages project financials, including forecasting, budget tracking, cost management, and ensuring alignment to business outcomes.
- Ensures successful delivery and value realization by aligning outcomes to defined business objectives and driving post-implementation reviews and continuous improvement.
- Champions and supports Agile maturity initiatives, continuously improving team effectiveness, delivery practices, and adoption of Agile principles.
- Mentors Scrum Masters, less-experienced Project Managers, and team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and leadership development.
- Owns delivery decision-making across assigned projects and initiatives, balancing scope, timeline, cost, and quality to achieve optimal business outcomes.
- Aligns project objectives and delivery plans with organizational priorities while managing competing delivery demands.
- Builds strong relationships with executive stakeholders, influencing priorities, resolving conflicts, and driving alignment across initiatives and delivery objectives.
- Proactively seeks and confronts risk and issues openly and quickly, while effectively communicating relevant project/practice information to IT management as needed.
- Determines new, creative ways to employ teams on projects, distribute responsibilities, share lessons learned, and implement industry best practices.
- Identifies opportunities for internal improvement and leads the development and execution of improvement plans.
- Accountable for end-to-end delivery and realization of measurable business outcomes, including improvements in operational efficiency, student experience, and system performance.
- Leads change management activities associated with assigned projects and initiatives, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, tools, and capabilities.
- Partners closely with Product Management and Product Owners to ensure alignment between business priorities, roadmap execution, and delivery capacity.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
- PMP or CSM Certifications or relevant experience.
- 5+ years serving in a Scrum Master or Agile leadership capacity across multiple teams.
- 6-8 years of experience in Project Management or related fields.
- Demonstrated success leading large initiatives through influence in matrixed organizations without direct authority.
- Experience leading large, complex, enterprise-scale projects and strategic initiatives involving multiple cross-functional teams.
- Proven ability to lead multiple teams and programs within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience presenting to and influencing executive leadership.
- Experience with multiple project management techniques, including agile process with SCRUM implementation frameworks.
- Thorough understanding of IT service offerings, technical preferences, and technical direction.
- Deep expertise in Agile tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps) to enable scalable delivery practices, reporting, and workflow optimization.
- Experience managing delivery across highly integrated enterprise ecosystems, including CRM, SIS, and marketing automation platforms.
- Ability to Coach and “lead by example” the breakdown of business needs into EPIC, Features and User Stories.
- Proven ability to drive decision-making and accountability across multiple stakeholders in ambiguous and evolving environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with audience in perspective.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of business principles, processes, and technology.
- Strong knowledge of Teams, Word, Excel, OneNote, Visio, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Excellent collaborator able to work with virtual and global cross functional teams.
- Experience with systems and business processes to support new product introductions.
- Knowledge of multiple existing Scrum Agile frameworks and project management methodology.
- Strong analytical, budgetary, and critical thinking skills.
- Proven ability to lead multiple teams and complex cross-functional initiatives within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience establishing delivery governance, managing project risks and dependencies, and driving
- successful outcomes for large, complex initiatives.
- Experience with a PPM solution.
- Have expert knowledge and ability to identify opportunities for change and the ability to convey the
- need for change to IT management.
- Experience in high growth small-midsize companies, preferably in Higher Education, strongly preferred.
Our Commitment to Employees
Just as we strive to empower our students for success, we also aim to enrich the lives of our employees. For 6
consecutive years, ACE was recognized as one of Indiana’s Best Places to Work, winning the #1 spot for
medium-sized companies in 2020. In addition, ACE has earned national recognition since 2022 for being a
USA Today Top Workplace. As a virtual first organization, we celebrate diversity and are committed to
creating a family-like inclusive work environment. For our full-time employees, we offer the following
benefits:
- Medical, dental, & vision Insurance
- HSA and FSA options
- Paid parental leave
- Paid volunteer time
- Tuition reimbursement & reduction programs
- Generous PTO
- 401k and employer match
- Full-service wellness and EAP program
- Employee recognition and awards programs
- Employer paid life & AD&D insurance
- Short-term disability
- Employer paid long-term disability
- And more…
Physical Demands
The physical demand described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee
is regularly required to communicate with and receive communications from students and ACE employees in
real time using online and other electronic media.
Commitment to Culture
At American College of Education, we’re all about building a one-of-a-kind, supportive community where
everyone—students, faculty, and staff—can thrive. Guided by our mission and values, we focus on everything
from innovative curriculum design to personalized instruction and student support to intentional planning,
inclusive initiatives, and strategic resource allocation. We’re dedicated to creating an environment that
celebrates freedom of expression, diversity of thought, open dialogue, and mutual respect. We believe in
fostering a sense of belonging and wellness so that every member of our ACE family feels empowered,
valued, and ready to reach their full potential. Together, we’re creating a vibrant, resilient, and connected
learning community where everyone matters.
Additional Notes
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or
responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may
change at any time with or without notice.
Employees are increasingly integrating AI into their roles, demonstrating its potential to boost efficiency,
accuracy, and productivity. By utilizing AI technologies, we can streamline processes, gain valuable insights
from data, and automate routine tasks, which allows employees to concentrate on more strategic and
creative aspects of their work. While AI is a beneficial tool in the workplace, if its use—such as ChatGPT,
Grammarly, Copy.ai, etc.—accounts for more than 50% of any work assignments or job responsibilities, it will
need to be reported to a direct leader.
Internet bandwidth speeds from an employee's remote work location must be a minimum of 50Mbps
download speeds and 5Mbps upload speeds. Please note if the bandwidth is shared across multiple devices
(tablets, computer, streaming, phone, etc.) you will need higher overall speeds. You can test the speed of
your connection by visiting speedtest.net Purchase, setup, installation, support, and ongoing maintenance of
reliable internet service is the responsibility of the individual.
American College of Education seeks to attract and retain a diverse staff consistent with its diverse student
body and surrounding communities. At this time we cannot consider candidates residing in Alaska,
Washington D.C., Massachusetts, South Dakota, or Alabama.
ACE is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Salesforce Senior Project Manager
Pierce Washington
Who are we?
Founded in 2005, Pierce Washington helps clients transform their quote-to-cash process. We are creating a next-generation Total Commerce Company and will own the Total Commerce category – a fast growing segment in the tech industry. This is the place to come to if you want to work with the best, get in at the ground floor and help sustain and grow one of the best places to work. We have completed over 100 CPQ projects enabling leading enterprise companies to achieve their most complex Q2C process automation goals and transform how they do business.
Leveraging this expertise, our Salesforce Practice is focused on delivering Salesforce Revenue Cloud solutions to clients in the High Tech and Manufacturing industries. Come join a growing Salesforce Practice and work on fun projects with good people!
Who are you?
You are an experienced Salesforce Project Manager, who has experience managing enterprise level projects. You enjoy being a hands-on business analyst while managing complex projects and delivering excellence for your clients. As the client’s main point of contact, you will establish a comprehensive understanding of project expectations and business processes and manage a plan to meet these goals.
You strive for and deliver excellence for yourself, your team, and your clients. You have a natural curiosity to uncover a client’s pain points, key requirements and implicit needs, provide day-to-day leadership and timely project status updates to our clients, and work closely with Pierce Washington and client technical and non-technical team members to complete projects on-time and within budget. This will be a 100% remote postion.
What you get to do:
- Working closely with the Solution Architect, you will create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- In this capacity, you will lead, or co-lead with the Solution Architect, completion of the following business analyst functions:
- discovery workshops to gather, define, and document current and future state business processes and functional requirements
- document requirements in the form of process flow diagrams and user stories
- develop implementation estimates and plans for phases of the delivery lifecycle, including configuration, development, testing, training, communications, deployment, and post go-live support
- design user story test scripts and participate in end-user acceptance testing
- Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of the project and scope, the overall client relationship and demonstrate respect and responsiveness to client needs
- Cultivate and manage highly functional teams comprised of Solution Architects, Consultants and Developers and client resources through all phases of an Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to define and validate the technical approach, strategy and deliverables for the project
- Manage project deliverables, financials and schedule to ensure the project stays on track and drive implementation of the solution
- Monitor project status and assess risk in process, people and/or technology and adjust project plans to address accordingly
- Perform impact analysis for scope change requests and document changes to requirements
- Serve as an expert in Agile methodology to effectively apply our delivery methodology and enforce project standards
- Ensure successful completion of project deliverables, cost, and timelines
- Maintain a sense of ownership as it pertains to client satisfaction, company profitability and project team resource workload
- Provide clear and effective communication on risks, scope changes and an understanding of change management techniques and processes
What you bring to the role:
- 4+ years of Salesforce industry experience in a consulting capacity as a Business Analyst and/or Project Manager working with the Sales Could and/or Service Cloud --- must have experience managing enterprise level projects
- 2+ years of hands-on experience managing Enterprise Salesforce CPQ projects that were at least 6 months in duration and included data migrations and integrations with ERP systems
- Experience with Salesforce org consolidation/migration projects a bonus
- Proven expert in Agile SDLC project management theories, practices and methods
- Ability to serve as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational needs
- Experienced in executing gap analysis and requirements traceability matrices
- Excellent client-facing written and oral communication skills
- Ability to pivot and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to challenge, innovate, lead and drive projects to close
- Experienced with Visio, Jira, Confluence, Prodly, Copado, or similar tools desirable
- Experience in the High Tech or Manufacturing industries highly desired
- PMP certification is preferred
- Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire within first several months
- Preferred Salesforce certifications: Administrator
- Experience in High Tech or Manufacturing industries highly desired
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or information systems
What we’ll do for you:
- Competitive compensation package
- Health, vision, dental, life & disability insurance
- Flexible, collaborative work environment with a commitment to work life balance
- Work anywhere, with full remote and hybrid options depending on location
- Learn and challenge yourself in a fast-paced, growing tech company
More about us:
Since 2005, Pierce Washington has helped enterprises transform their quote-to-cash process in four ways: we implement CPQ, eCommerce and Billing & Subscription Management solutions and we integrate those solutions to ERP and other enterprise systems. By focusing on these four areas – and doing them well – we have built our reputation as the go-to partner for our clients. Our commitment to each client’s success is the foundation on which Pierce Washington was built. None of this success would have been possible without the synergy we have with our employees. Our commitment to each employee’s personal growth and development yet still highly valuing work/life balance, all within a culture of collaboration and teamwork, is why being a part of our team is an exciting next step in your career!
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Senior Project Manager (Remote, US, Remote)
Computacenter
About the role
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, planning, coordination, implementation, execution and management of one to many medium projects, several large projects, and/or complex projects according to pre-determined scope, schedule and budgets. Senior Project Managers will also provide coaching and mentoring to less experienced Project Managers / Project Coordinators. It is expected that the majority of time (70%) will be in customer facing activities.
What you'll be doing
- Partners with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
- Lead the planning and implementation of project(s) throughout the project lifecycle, initiation through closure.
- Oversee the review of project scope, goals and deliverables both internally and externally.
- Oversee and Develop a project task list (tracker), risk/issue/action, project contacts and a full-scale project plan as required within Computacenter United States Inc’s approved applications and systems.
- Assemble and coordinate project resources both internally, externally and with 3rd parties.
- Manage project budget, resource allocation, project plan, project trackers and project timelines as required.
- Track and advise on project deliverables and tasks using appropriate applications, systems, and/or tools.
- Own and resolve any issues that arise during the project and drive risk mitigation.
- Drive team accountability for project results of staying on-budget, on-schedule, and maintain client satisfaction.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to project scope, tasks, deliverables, goals, resources, schedules and budgets.
- Communicate expectations to stakeholders and team, gaining acceptance and accomplishing customers business objectives.
- Identify resources required to fulfill project delivery, collaborating with other Project Managers, the Resource Management Group and other groups as required to determine which project resources are available in order to schedule project workload and make assignments.
- The Senior PM should work with the Resource Management Group to explore ways to drive efficiencies on third party project delivery.
- Oversee all products and corresponding issues (software licensing, shipment logistics, DOA's, late or changed shipment dates) are coordinated with customer and Computacenter United States Inc Sales and Engineering teams.
- Provide status reporting throughout the project to internal and external stakeholders on progress against project schedule, and any issues and their accompanying mitigations.
- Quickly escalate to next level of management and/or senior management any project related issues/risks that will impact the project negatively.
- Ensure all project team timecards, expense reports, status reports, issue documentation, project tracker(s), project plan(s) and project documentation are entered and/or updated into the Computacenter United States Inc applications & systems in a timely fashion, verifying accuracy and completeness.
- Obtain client sign-off on the Project Completion Form.
- Perform invoicing and project closure functions including sending and following up on Customer Satisfaction Survey’s.
- Senior PM’s will be called upon to mentor those around them in aspects of leadership, methodology, tools, people skills, and navigating difficult customer environments.
- Senior PM’s will be called upon to conduct mid project checks as well, as after action meetings for continual improvement.
- Senior PM’s will be expected to have the ability to turn around any sized project that may not be performing up to Computacenter United States Inc’s high-quality expectations.
- Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.
What you have
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 7-10 years’ experience in Project Management within the IT industry.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Project.
- PMP certification is a plus.
- Experience with Salesforce is a plus.
- Legally eligible to work in the United States.
- Expert knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management.
- Expert knowledge of project management techniques and tools.
- Direct work experience in project management capacity.
- Proven ability to motivate and build strong teams.
- Experience coaching and mentoring.
- Excellent customer interfacing skills.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Proven experience in effective meeting facilitation.
- Proven experience in people management.
- Proven experience in issue & risk management.
- Proven ability to multi-task, stay organized, and work efficiently.
- Proven ability to work independently, as well as with peers.
- Proven ability to problem solve and perform analysis.
- Proficient in project management software.
- Strong knowledge of technical concepts, terms and practices used in the assessment and implementation of IT Infrastructure and Services.
- Supervises, directs and controls the activities of assigned staff.
- Interviews, schedules, trains and assigns work.
- Establishes performance expectations and monitors results.
- Develop and nurture a team to highlight strengths and raise the bar for talent.
- Ensures a trained, motivated and professional staff capable of providing efficient and effective operations and exceptional member service.
- Recommends the discipline and/or discharge of staff, while maintaining required personnel documentation.
- Coaches and counsels staff, as necessary.
What you can expect
There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.
About us
Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta.
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