Project Manager

This role is responsible for independently leading medium-to-large projects, ensuring delivery excellence, project health, and client satisfaction. It is focused on the full project lifecycle, including planning, execution, risk management, and reporting. The role serves as a primary liaison between clients, internal delivery teams, and external partners, ensuring alignment with strategic goals while fostering collaboration and accountability. 

While this role is 100% remote, we are looking for someone in the NY/NJ metro area (NY, NJ, PA, CT) and will be prioritizing the applicants located in that area.                          

Essential Duties and Responsibilities - The following and other duties may be assigned as necessary:

• Execute project management activities for technical digital initiatives, leading cross-functional teams and coordinating with clients and third-party stakeholders.
• Provide clear direction throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring goals, deliverables, and timelines are well understood.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate comprehensive project plans, including roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and ownership.
• Maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships through consistent direct communication and confidence-building interactions.
• Foster team collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, and resources with discipline, applying best practices in project governance.
• Oversee sprint cycles, backlog management, and agile ceremonies (scrums, standups, retrospectives).
• Ensure documentation, status reports, agendas, and sign-offs are delivered accurately and on time.
• Adapt to occasional non-traditional hours, as needed, to support live sporting events.
• Monitor and report on project performance, financials, and resource utilization.
• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies; manage mitigation plans and escalate appropriately.
• Apply task and change management best practices to ensure clarity, accountability, and quality of delivery.
• Coordinate with development, QA, and release teams to ensure seamless delivery.
• Evaluate outcomes, processes, and feedback to recommend and implement continuous improvements.
• Leverage tools, metrics, and retrospectives to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualification Requirements  - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• 2+ years managing medium to large-scale projects.
• 2+ years of experience managing multiple concurrent projects with demonstrated success.
• Proven experience in consumer-facing digital experiences, with a required background in the sports or sports media industry.
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools and agile methodologies.
• Solid understanding of PMO methodologies, frameworks, and delivery processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to inspire confidence in clients and teams.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Knowledge of Continuous Deployment/Delivery models is preferred.
• PMP or CSM certification strongly encouraged.

Supervisory Responsibilities - This job does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Location - This role is 100% remote.  We are looking for someone in the NY/NJ area (NY, NJ, PA, CT).

Travel Requirements - This position is expected to travel 10% of the time.  

Work Environment - The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.