Implementation Project Manager

About Stellic

Remember the days when you were navigating your academic path — the feeling of being lost, unsure of which courses to take, or uncertain about your graduation timeline? At Stellic, we get it because our journey started just like yours. Born out of the challenges faced by international students at Carnegie Mellon, we’ve grown into a movement that’s reshaping the future of education by addressing one of higher education’s biggest challenges: the $200B dropout crisis.

Today, we’ve partnered with 75 universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower students to take control of their academic journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform gives students the tools they need to plan ahead, stay on track, and succeed, from day one through graduation.

At Stellic, we believe in the power of personalized education, and our culture thrives on collaboration, innovation, and the passion to solve meaningful problems. Your ideas will have a real-world impact, as you work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry to reimagine what education can be. Join us; together, we’ll help millions of students worldwide own their educational future.

Don’t take our word for it, see it for yourself!

• "Stellic cut down 2 hours of brainpower before registration to just 30 minutes!" – Rising Senior
• “I noticed that when I was in meetings with my advisor after we got Stellic, we could spend more time talking about career paths, the future, and what made sense for me from a professional standpoint" - Rising Senior
• “One of the key things about Stellic is that I can have it open, my advisor can also have it open and see exactly what I’m looking at. And I don’t have to hope and pray that they remember who I am." – Rising Junior
• "Just had the most AMAZING advising session...a student was changing majors and they built a new plan to show her parents within minutes. She was beaming (and so was I!)...this is incredible to use" - Advisor
• “Stellic has caused us to be more inspired about the work that we do. Having a platform that is agile, responsive, flexible and shows potential for moving forward - and a collaborative team approach - has been remarkable." - Administrator

About The Role

This is an opportunity to work closely with multiple enterprise partners to deliver the implementation of a unified and student-centric degree management platform. As a Project Manager, you will manage and lead implementation projects which involve multiple teams at Stellic, including Implementation consultants, Engineering, Integration, and Product teams. You will be part of the larger Partner Success team, which is entirely focused on delivering value for our college and university partners.

In this role, the Implementation Project Manager will: 

• Partner with Implementation Managers (Consultants) to lead multiple, concurrent projects to deliver onboarding services to partners.
• Engage with the right stakeholders in our Implementation projects to successfully scope and drive the project through successful completion.
• Become knowledgeable about the Stellic product and our partner use cases
• Work collaboratively across groups to secure buy-in and drive issues/risks to resolution.
• Resolve and transform complex concepts into executable plans.
• Develop and execute deadlines and project activities.
• Provide Risk and Resource Management by anticipating bottlenecks, providing management escalation, project prioritization, making tradeoffs, balancing the customer needs versus technical constraints and driving initial objectives.
• Meet or exceed targets for Customer satisfaction and achievement of project goals. 
• Understand that our partners are the reason we come to work every day, and will advocate on their behalf to internal teams including Product Management, Engineering and Partner Success.

We are looking for people who have:

• PMP or CAPM certification strongly preferred
• Experience in B2B customer-facing service delivery project management
• Skilled in managing highly complex projects with large enterprise customers
• Previous experience working in a fast-paced, high-tech, SaaS startup environment
• Proficient with project management tools such as SmartSheet or Monday.com
• Exceptional organizational skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize workload, and concurrently manage multiple projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the proven ability to communicate with all levels across the organization.
• Collaborative, while able to influence and persuade.
• Demonstrable understanding of PMI project management standards and guidelines
• Ability to travel to customer sites when required
• Flexible and adaptable to changes, while showing a positive attitude
• Strong team player with the ability to build and maintain good rapport with both internal and external customers to handle situations with confidence and tact.
• Experience building process documentation to outline current or new processes
• Strong negotiation skills used to resolve conflicts and find win-win scenarios

Why Join

• Be part of a customer-centric team that is addressing the core issues in higher education via an expandable platform that is overwhelming loved by students and valued by administrators
• The opportunity to join at the ground level of a promising and developing organization, and build/lead a team critically responsible for its growth
• Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS
• Be part of a culture where ownership, new ideas, and creativity is celebrated
• Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
• Flexible, outcome-based culture
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns

Salary: $80,000 - $137,000 base salary, plus equity

Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.