Overview

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.