Senior Project Manager

About the role

Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple cross-functional projects or workstreams, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, timelines, scope, budget, and quality expectations.

Apply and tailor delivery methodologies (Agile, hybrid, or traditional) to suit project needs while promoting agility and continuous improvement.

Establish and maintain clear project plans, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics.

Proactively manage project RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), including mitigation planning and timely escalation when required.

Facilitate project governance through structured status reporting, RAG indicators, milestone reviews, and leadership updates.

Partner with business stakeholders, product, engineering, and technology teams to translate objectives into actionable requirements and execution plans.

Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, tooling, and ways of working across the PMO.

Responsibilities

• Scheduling and facilitating necessary meetings at all project stages; managing decisions and tasks; and monitoring and reporting progress
• Working with outside vendors and internal New Balance teams to plan and manage project activities, provide governance and oversight, provide status and other inputs to Business, IT, and Leadership
• Providing mentoring and coaching to other project managers

Requirements

• B.S. with 5+ years’ project management experience in a relevant technical field
• Understanding of/hands-on experience with software development life cycle
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or complex workstreams
• Skilled in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project management methodologies
• Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheets, Ability to work within an Agile lifecycle tool such as ADO (Microsoft DevOps) or JIRA
• Demonstrated influence without authority, self-motivated with the ability to work independently and willing to take a hands-on approach and help the team to drive success

Qualifications

B.S. with 5+ years’ project management experience in a relevant technical field

Understanding of/hands-on experience with software development life cycle

Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or complex workstreams

Skilled in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid project management methodologies

Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheets, Ability to work within an Agile lifecycle tool such as ADO (Microsoft DevOps) or JIRA

Demonstrated influence without authority, self-motivated with the ability to work independently and willing to take a hands-on approach and help the team to drive success

Skills

• Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Collaboration and Communication
• Leadership and Mentoring

Benefits

Comprehensive traditional benefits package including three options for medical insurance as well as dental, vision, life insurance and 401K.

Nontraditional perks – opportunities like online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, $100 monthly student loan support and various mentorship programs.

Yearly $1,000 lifestyle reimbursement, 4 weeks of vacations, 12 holidays and generous parental leave.

Flexible Work Schedule

Equal Opportunity Employer