Lead Project Manager

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Lead Project Manager, a W-2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!

This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C.

Lead Project Manager

Location:

Minneapolis, MN
Type: W2 Contract - 12 months contract

Hybrid-3 days in office

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Lead Project Manager for the Talent Acquisition (TA) Transformation & Innovation Team to support technology modernization across Talent Acquisition work streams. This role will initially focus on implementing Hired Score-an AI driven tool that enhances candidate ranking, rediscovery, and internal mobility-while also providing support to additional work streams as needed. The Lead Project Manager will partner with TA leaders, sponsors, and cross functional teams to drive timely execution of initiatives, ensuring alignment with change management governance and delivery of key business outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Lead project management for Talent Acquisition (TA) technology transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and timelines.
• Serve as the dedicated project lead for the Hired Score implementation workstream, overseeing planning, execution, risk management, and delivery.
• Coordinate across multiple talent acquisition technology work streams, providing project support, issue resolution, and cross functional alignment as needed.
• Partner closely with TA leaders, business sponsors, HR partners, and technology teams to drive effective collaboration and decision-making.
• Manage project governance activities, including status reporting, resource coordination, documentation, and escalation pathways.
• Ensure adherence to established change management processes to support successful adoption and business readiness.
• Monitor progress toward key milestones and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Support end user experience by aligning project outcomes with recruiter, hiring manager, and candidate needs, especially around ranking, rediscovery, and internal mobility features enabled by Hired Score.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, ideally within a large, matrixed organization
• Strong program/project management capabilities with the ability to manage detailed plans, risks, and cross functional dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Talent Acquisition projects or programs, including cross-functional alignment, execution oversight, and measurable impact on recruiting operations and outcomes
• Hands on experience implementing HR or TA technologies (ATS, CRM, AI based sourcing/matching tools, workflow automation tools, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to create clear, compelling presentations and tell the story through visuals and narrative.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; ability to connect concepts across multiple work streams and distill complexity.
• Experience with HR Recruiting tools/technology transformation (Applicant Tracking System, Candidate Relationship Management, automation tools, conversational AI, sourcing technology, workflow modernization).
• Familiarity with AI driven talent platforms such as Hired Score, Eightfold, Hire Vue, or similar machine learning based recruiting technologies.
• Experience in driving change management efforts and stakeholder adoption, with familiarity in established methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma and Agile

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