Senior Project Manager - Consultant

About the role

This is a senior project management position for someone who doesn't just manage projects. They own them. You will serve as the driving force behind complex, multi-workstream engagements for Washington State agencies, and you'll be expected to flex beyond traditional PM boundaries when the engagement demands it.

Responsibilities

• Project Delivery & Governance
  • Lead end-to-end project management for complex, multi-workstream engagements including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issue management
  • Develop, maintain, and execute detailed MS Project plans with dependencies, resource loading, and elaborated tasks; apply hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches appropriate to the engagement context
  • Drive clarity and alignment when project conditions are ambiguous, off-track, or politically complex, including developing recovery plans and realignment strategies
  • Facilitate project status reporting, executive briefings, and governance checkpoints
  • Deliver status updates and executive reporting in visually compelling formats that tell the right story for the right audience
  • Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams before they become fire drills
• AI-Enabled Project Leadership
  • Use AI tools to analyze project data across workstreams, identifying schedule risks, resource conflicts, dependency chains, and early-warning patterns that inform proactive decision-making
  • Generate executive-ready deliverables: status reports, risk assessments, decision briefs, and governance presentations at a quality and speed that traditional approaches can't match
  • Apply AI to synthesize information from multiple sources: meeting notes, vendor updates, technical documentation, stakeholder feedback, into clear, consolidated views that drive alignment
  • Automate repetitive PM work: status aggregation, action item tracking, schedule variance analysis, and reporting workflows, freeing capacity for the strategic and political work that determines project outcomes
  • Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools that improve project delivery, and share innovations with the Liberum team to raise the collective capability
• Technical Engagement & Integration
  • Support configuration, testing, and validation activities including UAT planning and execution
  • Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery across all workstreams
  • Engage with system integrators and technical teams as a credible counterpart who understands the substance of what's being built, not just the project mechanics
• Stakeholder & Relationship Management
  • Manage relationships with executive sponsors, steering committees, and cross-functional stakeholders across state agency environments
  • Engage and build foundational relationships with customers, project sponsors, vendors, and external stakeholders
  • Proactively communicate project progress, risks, and value delivered to client stakeholders, ensuring visibility into team contributions throughout the engagement
• Team & Client Development
  • Coach and mentor client-side staff to build internal PM capability that outlasts the engagement
  • Collaborate with OCM, training, and communications teams to ensure project management outputs support adoption and readiness activities
  • Identify opportunities to create additional client value throughout the engagement lifecycle

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of project management experience with demonstrated senior-level performance
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in highly regulated or politically sensitive environments
• Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement, including steering committees and sponsor briefings
• Experience conducting business interviews and leading client workshops at both operational and leadership levels
• Active, daily use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or equivalent) integrated into your project management workflow
• Demonstrated ability to use AI for project analysis, risk identification, status synthesis, deliverable creation, and reporting in a professional consulting context
• Comfort prompting and directing AI tools effectively
• Intellectual curiosity and initiative around emerging AI capabilities
• Strong writing skills: the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise deliverables for both technical audiences and executive stakeholders
• Hybrid methodology fluency: ability to blend Agile and Waterfall approaches pragmatically based on what the project and client actually need
• Professional courage to deliver difficult findings and recommendations with data, grace, and actionable solutions
• PMM certification or equivalent project management credential preferred

What Sets You Apart

• Master's Degree in Business, Public Administration, Information Systems, or related field
• Consulting experience with public sector clients
• Familiarity with Washington State procurement and contracting processes
• Experience working alongside or managing SI (System Integrator) teams on large-scale ERP programs
• Prosci or equivalent OCM certification
• PMI-PBA or CBAP certification
• Track record of rescuing or recovering troubled projects, not just running healthy ones
• Experience building custom AI workflows, prompt libraries, or automated project management pipelines that measurably improved delivery efficiency or quality
• Familiarity with AI-powered project analytics, predictive scheduling, or automated reporting tools
• History of introducing AI tools or practices to a team or client organization and successfully driving adoption

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $140,000-$160,000 annually based on experience
• Comprehensive benefits: full medical, dental, life, and short-term disability coverage, plus 401k with 4% match (no vesting period)
• Generous PTO: 15 days (0-5 years) or 20 days (5+ years), plus 9 paid holidays and WA state sick leave accrual
• Bonus Leave program for employees who go above and beyond
• Liberum is an equal opportunity employer