Senior Project Manager

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Lead complex projects from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with quality standards while fostering team collaboration and strategic insight.

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Senior Project Manager

Location: Colombia (Remote)

.Monks Technology Services, part of Media.Monks and S4 Capital, is a global consulting firm mastering AI-powered transformations for the Fortune 100. We combine long-term strategic thinking, deep enterprise experience, and a human-centered approach to help clients transform business processes and dominate their industries.

 

Role Overview

The Senior Project Manager plays a crucial role as a key figure in project execution and strategic support. Reporting to a Program Manager, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of complex projects, ensuring alignment with quality standards and client expectations. This role also involves casting, where you will align project teams to ensure the optimal mix of skills and experience for each initiative.

We seek a leader who blends project management expertise with strategic insight, operational efficiency, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Delivery: Lead projects from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure.

  • Strategic Planning: Define project scope, success criteria, deliverables, and resource requirements; maintain detailed project plans and dependencies.

  • Financial Stewardship: Manage budgets, forecasts, cost controls, and financial monitoring to ensure profitability; assist in vendor payments and proposal creation.

  • Risk & Change Management: Identify and mitigate risks through a formal risk register; facilitate decision-making and change control processes.

  • Team Leadership & Casting: Coordinate cross-functional teams, lead resource allocation, and ensure the right talent is assigned to each project.

  • Stakeholder Management: Serve as the main point of contact for clients and senior leadership, facilitating real-time communication and executive-level reporting.

  • Governance & Quality: Enforce project governance, reporting cadences, and documentation standards to ensure adherence to organizational and industry standards.

  • Continuous Improvement: Supervise project processes, monitor KPIs, and implement best practices to foster effective teamwork and collaboration.

About You

Qualifications & Skills

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.

  • Experience: 6+ years in project management within tech/software environments, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role.

  • Methodologies: Strong knowledge of Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall, with the ability to tailor hybrid delivery models.

  • Technical Background: Solid understanding of the SDLC, APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and CI/CD; ability to engage technically with engineering teams.

  • Tooling Mastery: Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, MS Project, and other collaboration platforms.

  • Financial Acumen: Proven experience in budget management, cost controls, and revenue recognition practices.

  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication in both Spanish and English, with the ability to present to executive stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Certifications: PMP, SAFe Agilist, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or PRINCE2.

  • Mentorship: Experience coaching junior PMs and leading through influence in a distributed team environment.


.Monks Technology Services does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment.

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

 

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us. 

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