Techno Functional Project Manager - UiPath​/RPA & Automation

We are seeking an experienced Techno-Functional Project Manager with strong expertise in UiPath Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to lead end-to-end automation initiatives. The role acts as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring successful implementation of automation solutions that drive operational efficiency, governance maturity, business value, and digital transformation outcomes.

Role Focus Areas

• Project and program delivery management
• Business analysis and process discovery
• UiPath technical oversight and solution governance
• Stakeholder, client, and vendor management
• Automation CoE support, reporting, and benefits tracking

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end UiPath automation projects from initiation through production deployment.
• Define project scope, timelines, budget, resource plans, milestones, and governance cadence.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs, change logs, status reports, and executive updates.
• Manage risks, dependencies, issues, change requests, and delivery escalations.
• Ensure delivery within scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations.
• Drive project reviews, sprint ceremonies, steering committee updates, and client-facing status meetings.

Business & Functional Responsibilities

• Conduct process discovery workshops with business stakeholders and operations teams.
• Identify automation opportunities, assess process feasibility, and define automation suitability.
• Analyze existing business processes and recommend optimization opportunities before automation.
• Create and review Process Assessment Documents (PAD), Process Definition Documents (PDD), Business Requirement Documents (BRD), and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
• Translate business requirements into clear solution inputs for architects and developers.
• Define KPIs, projected business benefits, ROI, success criteria, and adoption metrics for automation initiatives.

UiPath Technical Oversight

• Provide delivery governance and oversight for UiPath solution design and implementation.
• Review Solution Design Documents (SDD), architecture approach, exception handling, logging, reusable components, and security compliance.
• Collaborate with UiPath Developers, Solution Architects, Infrastructure Teams, Testing Teams, PMO, and business users.
• Support deployment and production readiness through UiPath Orchestrator governance.
• Monitor automation stability, bot performance, SLA adherence, and post go-live issue resolution.
• Promote UiPath best practices across development, testing, deployment, release, and hypercare.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface between business users, client stakeholders, and technical delivery teams.
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering committee meetings, and executive reviews.
• Create client-ready updates covering progress, risks, issues, decisions required, and next steps.
• Coordinate with Automation CoE teams to maintain pipeline visibility and prioritization.

Agile, PMO & Governance

• Lead Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project execution models as appropriate.
• Manage sprint planning, backlog reviews, demos, retrospectives, and delivery checkpoints.
• Track project health across scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and benefits realization.
• Ensure compliance with PMO standards, security expectations, documentation requirements, and audit readiness.

Automation CoE Support

• Support RPA Center of Excellence setup, governance, standards, and operating model maturity.
• Drive automation intake, prioritization, pipeline management, and value realization tracking.
• Develop reusable templates, checklists, best practices, and project delivery artifacts.
• Mentor delivery teams on UiPath methodology, documentation standards, and stakeholder communication.

Required Technical Skills

Skill Area

Required / Preferred Exposure

UiPath Platform

RPA Concepts

Attended automation, unattended automation, REFramework, exception handling, logging, queues, assets, credentials, triggers, and schedules

Process Mining, Task Mining, Document Understanding, OCR, AI/ML-enabled automation, hyperautomation concepts

Delivery Tools

Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Hybrid delivery, SDLC, UAT, release management, and production support

• Process assessment and process mining interpretation
• Business process reengineering and optimization
• ROI calculation and business case development
• Automation opportunity identification and prioritization
• Risk,…