Title: Strategic Initiatives Project Manager
Industry: Technology
Location: Culver City, CA
Duration: 6 months
Responsibilities
- Partner with leadership to define objectives, scope, deliverables, ownership, timelines, and execution strategies for strategic initiatives.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into structured project briefs, actionable plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping through implementation, coordinating stakeholders, dependencies, risks, budgets, priorities, and deliverables.
- Develop scalable project playbooks, templates, workflows, vendor databases, and operational best practices.
- Leverage AI tools and automation to improve research, reporting, documentation, project coordination, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or programs within a large organization, including timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and multiple workstreams.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requests into structured plans and outcomes while exercising strong strategic thinking, critical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience coordinating external vendors or consultants, reviewing deliverables, and managing approval processes.
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools and automation, developing scalable processes, or establishing project management systems and operational resources.
- Excellent written communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills; ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, work independently, prioritize competing initiatives, and handle confidential information discreetly.
Skills
- Strategic project management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Program management
- Vendor management
- AI automation
- Process improvement
- Operational efficiency
- Stakeholder management
- Project planning
- Airtable
Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.
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