Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer, powering 1.7 trillion queries per year for 18,000+ customers at 99.999% reliability. This Senior Project Manager role leads workstreams in a broader business transformation program.
Your role will consist of
- Own end-to-end delivery: scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality
- Translate the transformation charter into a detailed project plan with milestones, owners, and dependencies
- Provide regular status reporting (RYG); escalate risks and blockers early
- Facilitate cross-functional sessions across Ops, IT, and Finance
- Maintain a RAID log and drive mitigations to closure
- Manage resource needs with capacity planning
- Partner with change management to drive adoption
- Run stage reviews and go/no-go recommendations
- Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned
- Oversee implementation, delivery, and closure of multiple projects on time, on budget, and on schedule
- Liaise with stakeholders on scope, timeline, resources, and risk plans
- Define roles and responsibilities
- Lead multiple project streams, including successful turnarounds
- Identify risks and build contingency and recovery plans
- Plan resources and strategies
- Manage change for scope changes: features, deadlines, and budget
You might be a fit if you have
- 6+ years of project management, including business transformation, process improvement, and systems implementation
- 6+ years managing multiple end-to-end project lifecycles
- Business transformation and multi-team implementation experience driving financial and operational results and behavioral change (change strategy, stakeholder impact, org readiness)
- Risk, contingency, and recovery planning experience
- Trust of senior stakeholders and vendors
- Budgeting, scoping, scheduling, and delivery experience
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities
- Project management fundamentals: charters, schedules, budgets, risk registers, change control
- Waterfall and Agile experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication; translate complexity for executives
- Tracking tools experience (Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence)
- Leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Based in US Eastern Time
What success looks like in the first 6 months
- Onboarded onto active transformation workstreams
- Reliable status reporting cadence established
- Comfortable with follow-ups across workstream members
Flexible workplace strategy
Remote option. Positions listed as Remote are for remote work within the specified country.