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We are seeking a Project Manager I to lead client projects for large school districts, focusing on project planning and execution while ensuring high client satisfaction.

Responsibilities: Manage a portfolio of 20+ clients, ensure timely project delivery, mitigate risks, collaborate with stakeholders, and identify process improvements.

Skills: Superior project management skills, experience with cross-functional teams, strong organizational and problem-solving abilities; proficiency in PM tools like Smartsheet and JIRA.

Qualifications: 1+ years of project management experience in a SaaS environment; bonus for project management certifications such as PMP or Six Sigma/Lean.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Compensation: $65200 - $72500 / Annually

About the Role:

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our growing Client Experience (CX) team and support client projects with best-in-class service. Could this be you? In this highly visible role, as a Project Manager you will be leading project planning, management and execution of Panorama’s client projects for survey delivery and integrations in our Large Districts client segment. Our clients in this segment are large school districts serving between 15,000 to 60,000 students. You’ll put your project management skills to use to manage projects using established project management best practices and standards and ensure stakeholder alignment and engagement in the project life cycle. You’ll need strong organizational skills, thrive in a fast-paced and ever changing environment, manage through influence and critical thinking to be successful. You’ll also need to plan ahead, anticipate issues and communicate well.

Preferred Region: Individuals who are able to work an East Coast or Central Time zone schedule highly preferred (9am-5pm or 10am-6pm EST)

Responsibilities:

You will manage a portfolio of 20 or more clients that sit within the Large Districts client segment.
Your goal is to deliver projects on time, error-free, and in alignment with our client vision. You’ll enable delivery of projects, including, but not limited to, fully managing the complete lifecycle of multiple projects for clients.
Provide the best client experience and ensure projects are on track by collaborating cross-functionally with other stakeholders such as Account Managers, Technical Support, Survey Operations, Implementation Leads and Engineering.
You’ll mitigate risk by communicating project status, identify risks, issues and escalate early and often with all project team members and executive stakeholders as needed.
You’ll put your strategic hat on to identify process inefficiencies and implement strategies for improvement.
You’ll use PM tools such as the Panorama platform, Smartsheet, Salesforce, MS Excel, JIRA, and Asana.
You’ll make sure our clients receive the highest level of service across all communication channels.
You will build your leadership on the team by supporting some functional and cross functional strategic projects aligned with the CX and company wide goals as needed

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

Superior project management and collaboration skills and experience

1+ years of project management experience in a SaaS environment
Proven ability to manage a number of projects on tight deadlines with a high level of organization and accuracy
Experience working independently and problem-solving on time-sensitive timelines
Experience working with high complexity, high touch clients and experience with large clients with multiple layers of decision-making
Experience working on cross functional projects and support teams
Bonus: Project management certifications (e.g., Six Sigma/Lean, PMP, PPM, CSPO, CSM, SAFe).

Tech savvy and a quick learner

Experience with learning new products, platforms, and environments; experience troubleshooting technical issues and using technology to improve processes
Experience using Excel or other technical platforms to modify large data sets

Multi-client experience delivering for a high volume of clients and stakeholders.

Experience building systems to increase efficiency in your work and/or building client delivery systems to make it them consistent and reliable
Experience in high growth organizations or the education industry are a plus

The starting salary range for this role is $65,200 - $72,500. Actual offers will depend on experience and skills.

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Project Manager I, Large Districts