Senior Project Manager; Automotive Industry

About the Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll lead the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technology initiatives - owning end-to-end execution while partnering with program leadership to ensure projects meet quality standards, timelines, and client expectations. You’ll also play a key role in casting, aligning the right mix of skills and experience to each project and helping teams operate efficiently at scale.

• Lead projects end-to-end across initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
• Define project scope, success criteria, deliverables, dependencies, and resource requirements
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and status reporting cadences
• Manage budgets, forecasting, cost controls, and financial monitoring to support profitability
• Support vendor payment coordination and assist in proposal creation as needed
• Identify, document, and mitigate project risks through a formal risk register
• Facilitate decision-making, change control processes, and stakeholder alignment across functions
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage resource allocation, including casting for optimal team composition
• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients and senior leadership, delivering clear communication and executive-level reporting
• Enforce project governance, documentation standards, and delivery quality practices
• Monitor KPIs and champion continuous improvement practices to strengthen collaboration and execution

• 6+ years of project management experience in tech or software environments, including 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
• Strong command of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall, with the ability to design and apply hybrid delivery models
• Solid understanding of the SDLC, APIs, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and CI/CD pipelines – enough to partner effectively with engineering teams
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, and  for project tracking, scheduling, and team collaboration
• Demonstrated experience with budget management, cost controls, forecasting, and financial monitoring
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including executive-facing communication and reporting
• Comfortable working in AI-augmented environments, with familiarity with AI-powered tools, automation workflows, or intelligent agents as part of day-to-day delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication in both Spanish and English

• Certifications such as PMP, SAFe Agilist, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or PRINCE2
• Experience mentoring junior PMs and leading through influence in distributed/remote teams

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