Project Manager coordinating NewWorld Strategies’ client shows and Creator Command Centers. Managing timelines, teams, vendors, and deliverables for complex client engagements.
About the role
- Senior Project Manager delivering cloud, data, and AI projects for Canadian customers. Coordinating distributed engineering teams and protecting fixed-fee scope from kickoff through production.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery execution across client engagements in Canada
- Manage multiple projects from kickoff to handoff with minimal supervision
- Build project plans covering scope, milestones, resources, and budget aligned to SOW deliverables
- Protect fixed-fee scope by identifying changes early, negotiating discrepancies, and driving prioritization decisions
- Coordinate delivery across time zones between customers and engineering teams in Brazil and Canada
- Own project governance, including status reporting, sprint reviews, and risk and issue management
- Facilitate backlog creation with definitions, acceptance criteria, and estimates; manage work in Jira
- Track milestones and documentation for AWS-funded engagements
- Build customer trust through reliable delivery, consistent communication, and difficult conversations
- Deliver against customer business outcomes and bring follow-on opportunities to the commercial team
- Help build the client’s delivery practice through templates, processes, and AI project-management practices
Requirements
- +5 years of professional experience working with North American customers, including at least 3 years in a client-facing Project Manager role
- +2 years in a consulting or professional services environment
- Experience delivering cloud, data, or AI projects
- AWS experience strongly preferred
- Experience managing distributed teams across time zones
- Forecasting and budget management on fixed-fee or milestone-based projects
- Comfort working across multiple project management methodologies
- Strong organization across several concurrent projects
- Clear communication with both business and technical stakeholders
- Legal authorization to work in Canada; the client cannot sponsor visas or work permits
- Fluent in English
- Portuguese is nice to have
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent is nice to have
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or willingness to obtain it within 90 days
- Familiarity with generative AI, Amazon Bedrock, data engineering, or application modernization
- Experience with AWS partner programs and funded engagements such as MAP
- Experience in an early-stage company
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Contractor arrangement
- Opportunity to build the client’s delivery practice
- Potential to bring follow-on opportunities to the commercial team
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