CDTO Project Manager

Tergar International is a global nonprofit bringing the benefits of meditation to people in more than 100 countries. As we scale toward our North Star of supporting 100,000 practitioners, our technology, data and AI capabilities have become central to how we reach and serve them — and that work now needs dedicated project management.

We are looking for a Project Manager to own a connected portfolio of four interconnected areas: our data program, our stage 1 instrumentation, our AI implementation roadmap and the cross-functional interface with the rest of the organisation. No one of these is the main focus — they draw on the same engineers, analysts and designers and share the same stakeholders, so they are planned and run as a single portfolio rather than as separate projects.

This is a building role. You will establish the planning function that sits in front of our technology teams: a single intake path for incoming work, scoping and prioritisation before delivery begins, capacity planned by decision rather than by whoever asks loudest, and reporting reliable enough to take straight to our leadership team. If you like creating order where there is currently goodwill and no structure, this is that role.

It is not a reporting or administrative role. Dashboards and status updates are the smallest part of it. The substance is relational and structural — understanding what is blocking each team, negotiating capacity between competing priorities, and holding the discipline that lets ambitious cross-functional work actually land.

Data Program

The full project management cycle across our data and analytics work: partnering with each team, understanding blockers and needs, scoping and prioritising incoming requests, planning against real capacity, and holding a standing cadence of visible boards and written status. Includes coordinating measurement and funnel work with our product and marketing teams against one agreed source of truth.

Stage 1 Instrumentation

Next year's largest cross-functional body of work: data and marketing planned as one against the campaign calendar rather than arriving as emergencies. It carries our north-star conversion experiment programme — A/B tests on free-event and product transitions in three-month cycles, measured on leakage and next-product KPIs — coordinated across engineering, data, marketing and product.

AI Implementation Roadmap

A multi-year roadmap of workflow automations across our functional areas, each delivered for a named internal client. Live work is already underway, scaling through 2027. The discipline is what makes it fast: scoped workflows with a real client, delivering visible value area by area rather than adopting tools that later have to be unwound.

Cross-functional Interface

When initiatives elsewhere in the organisation need capacity from our technology teams, you negotiate it manager-to-manager against a published priority list, with any displaced work recorded. Nothing starts without scope, dates, and a sponsor.

• Run a single intake path. Requests for your teams arrive through one route, are classified within an agreed window, and land on a published priority list.
• Ensure nothing starts without a plan. Every accepted project carries scope, milestones, dependencies, and dates before work begins.
• Hold the priority order. Maintain a published order across the portfolio, with changes going through an agreed process rather than around it.
• Plan capacity as a decision. Cross-functional work draws on a defined, published share of each team's time. When demand exceeds it, the tradeoff is negotiated in writing and recorded.
• Own your stakeholders. Be the person requesters come to for expectations, status, tradeoffs,…