Senior Project Manager Professional Services

MongoDB Professional Services acts as the delivery owner for complex customer initiatives translating strategic goals into measurable outcomes across modernization migration and AI-related programs. We drive accountability through strong governance proactive risk management and alignment with customer priorities.

As a Senior Project Manager you will serve as the accountable delivery lead for complex customer-facing Professional Services engagements. You will translate customer objectives into clear delivery strategies balancing customer outcomes with Professional Services business discipline (efficiency utilization and health).

We’re looking for candidates who are comfortable working remotely in the US and are able to support either east or west coast customers and internal stakeholders.

You will partner consultatively with stakeholders to shape priorities manage tradeoffs and ensure delivery remains focused on high-value outcomes. This role requires an operator who can navigate technically complex environments lead executive-level governance and integrate AI-related discovery into the engagement strategy to drive efficiency and value. What you will do:

• End-to-End Delivery: Lead engagements from kickoff through closeout maintaining continuity and ensuring delivery aligns with customer priorities and business outcomes
• Governance & Operations: Establish rigorous delivery governance including project planning milestone tracking RAID management and status reporting
• Consultative Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor helping customers clarify objectives make informed tradeoff decisions and connect technical execution to strategic business value
• Stakeholder Management: Drive alignment and influence outcomes across cross-functional teams (Consulting Sales Customer Success) and customer stakeholders even without direct authority
• Commercial & Delivery Health: Balance customer outcomes with sound business management including financial discipline resource utilization and engagement risk mitigation
• AI Integration: Identify opportunities where AI consultation adds value leveraging technical subject matter experts to drive efficiency and unlock outcomes
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to organizational delivery standards and mentor team members to improve consistency and predictability

• Experience: 8+ years leading complex customer-facing projects or programs in SaaS Consulting or Professional Services
• Execution & Governance: Strong command of project delivery fundamentals (scope schedule risk dependencies) and delivery tools (e.g. Jira Smartsheet)
• Communication & Influence: Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and maintain an executive presence with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Business Acumen: Deep understanding of Professional Services economics engagement health and linking delivery to long-term customer growth
• AI Fluency: A practical understanding of enterprise AI transformation; ability to identify AI use cases and facilitate relevant expert engagement
• Adaptability: Proficiency in both Agile and structured delivery models with the judgment to operate effectively in ambiguous environments

• Experience leading high-visibility database cloud or software modernization initiatives
• Familiarity with MongoDB products and services
• Experience facilitating strategic governance cadences (e.g. QBRs)

MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era enabling builders to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform the most widely available globally distributed data platform on the market helps organizations modernize legacy workloads embrace innovation and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform MongoDB Atlas is the only globally distributed multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67000 customers including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups relying on MongoDB for their most important applications we’re powering the next era of software.

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Req ID: 2273481019

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