Senior Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to own delivery across multiple concurrent client engagements. You will be the operating backbone of our delivery org keeping projects on track clients confident engineers focused and outcomes measurable.

This is not a status-reporting role. You will run client relationships drive delivery rigor surface risks early and partner with engineering leadership on scope staffing and commercial conversations. You will work directly with senior stakeholders on the client side Directors VPs and CXOs and represent SquareShift in the room.

You should be equally comfortable building a project plan from scratch on day one of a new engagement and rolling up your sleeves to unblock a team mid-sprint. We are a boutique you will have ownership autonomy and impact from week one.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end delivery for 35 concurrent client engagements across data cloud and AI projects
  

• Run client governance weekly status steering committees escalations change requests and stakeholder communication
  

• Build and maintain project plans RAID logs resource forecasts and delivery dashboards that engineering and leadership can actually use
  

• Partner with engineering leads on scoping estimation and SOW reviews; flag scope creep early and manage change orders cleanly
  

• Drive Agile and hybrid delivery models (Scrum Kanban milestone-based) pick the right tool for the engagement not dogma
  

• Track financial health of engagements burn margin utilization and partner with leadership on commercial decisions
  

• Lead pre-sales support on selected opportunities discovery questionnaires effort estimation proposal walk-throughs
  

• Coach and mentor delivery leads and tech leads on PM rigor; raise the bar on documentation communication and predictability
  

• Build and improve internal PMO processes templates playbooks governance models that scale with the firm
  

Requirements

What We Are Looking For

Must-have

• 8 years of project management experience with at least 4 years in client-facing delivery at a consulting firm GSI or product company with services arm
  

• Proven track record managing multiple parallel engagements with senior client stakeholders (Director and above)
  

• Strong command of delivery methodologies Agile/Scrum Kanban and milestone/waterfall and judgment to know when to use which
  

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to write a crisp status update run a steering committee and de-escalate a tense client call
  

• Process-driven mindset balanced with startup pragmatism you build structure where it is missing but you do not let process become the work
  

• Result-oriented and outcome-led you measure success by what shipped and what the client got not by tickets closed
  

• Comfort working with engineering teams on data cloud or AI projects (you do not need to code but you need to follow the conversation)
  

• Experience with project tooling Jira Confluence Asana Notion or equivalent and reporting tools (Looker Sheets Excel)
  

Nice-to-have

• PMP PRINCE2 CSM or SAFe certification
  

• Prior exposure to Google Cloud BigQuery Looker Snowflake Databricks or Elasticsearch ecosystem
  

• Experience managing fixed-price and T&M engagements including commercial governance
  

• Pre-sales or solution-shaping experience
  

• Background in BI/data analytics AI/ML or observability projects
  

Who You Are

• You bring calm to chaos. When a project is on fire you are the person clients and engineers both want in the room.
  

• You write well. Your status updates are read because they are useful not because they are mandatory.
  

• You are direct. You raise risks early push back on scope creep and have hard conversations when needed with respect.
  

• You take ownership. You do not wait for a process to exist before you solve a problem.
  

• You are curious about technology. You want to understand what your team is building not just track it.
  

Benefits