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Salary: USD 129,500 - 160,000 / annual
Algolia is seeking a Project Manager to lead individual workstreams within a broader business transformation program. In this role, you will own the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects spanning process redesign, systems implementation, and organizational change. You'll work closely with the Transformation Lead and business stakeholders across Operations, IT, Finance, and other functions to ensure transformation outcomes stick and drive measurable business impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end project delivery: scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality management
- Translate transformation charters into detailed project plans with clear milestones, owners, and dependencies
- Run regular status reporting (RYG statuses) and escalate risks and blockers proactively
- Facilitate cross-functional working sessions with stakeholders across multiple business units
- Maintain and drive closure on RAID logs (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies)
- Manage resource needs in coordination with capacity planning processes
- Partner with change management resources to ensure adoption of deliverables
- Conduct stage reviews and present go/no-go recommendations to steering committees
- Run post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned
- Oversee implementation and closure of multiple projects to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery
- Define scope, timeline, resources, and risk management plans with stakeholders
- Establish clear roles and responsibilities for participating team members
- Lead multiple project streams with successful turnarounds to achieve timelines
- Identify risks and prepare contingency and recovery plans
- Develop strategies for efficient resource planning aligned with team strategy
- Apply change management processes to manage stakeholder expectations and handle project changes
Success in the first 6 months means being fully onboarded onto active transformation workstreams, establishing reliable status reporting cadences, and building comfort with cross-functional follow-ups.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of project management experience, ideally including business transformation, process improvement, or systems implementation projects
- 6+ years managing multiple end-to-end project life cycles
- Preferred: Business transformation project experience and implementation work with multiple teams focused on driving financial and operational results, including behavioral change strategy, stakeholder impact assessment, and organizational readiness
- Ability to identify project risks and prepare contingency and recovery plans
- Ability to quickly gain trust and respect of senior stakeholders internally and with outside vendors
- Experience in budgeting, scoping, scheduling, and driving projects from initiation to delivery
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and drive alignment
- Strong working knowledge of project management fundamentals: charters, schedules, budgets, risk registers, change control
- Comfort working in both structured (waterfall) and iterative (Agile) delivery environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate technical or operational complexity into clear executive updates
- Experience with project tracking tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence) and standard reporting formats
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Based in US Eastern Time
