Project Management Lead, Science

Role overview

Lead project delivery across important product portfolios or cross-functional initiatives, with accountability for schedules, budgets, resources and delivery health. The role combines hands-on oversight with building practical operating systems for teams, while coordinating work across software development, educational content and physical production.

Responsibilities - Establish delivery practices, planning rhythms and shared standards that help teams maintain momentum and surface process problems. - Oversee schedules, dependencies, resource plans and project status, communicating progress and risks to teams and senior stakeholders. - Coordinate curriculum and content work with software development so digital features and learning materials are ready together. - Manage team capacity, identify workload imbalances and work with functional leads to adjust staffing or scope. - Lead responses to blockers, explain trade-offs and recovery plans, and monitor project spending and budget forecasts. - Coordinate print production hand-offs, set readiness expectations, manage vendors and introduce AI tools that reduce administrative work. - Manage and mentor project managers, and improve shared project management practices across the organization.

Requirements - 5–8 years of experience, including increasing responsibility for people management. - Experience leading project management or operations teams in education technology, publishing or SaaS. - Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum for software and Waterfall approaches for physical production. - Experience managing at least 3–5 direct reports, including hiring, training and developing staff. - Comfort configuring project management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet or Notion and working across technical, creative and operational teams. - Ability to turn detailed project risks into clear, useful status updates for leadership.