Our client, a leading global technology company with a large advertising business, is looking to hire a Strategic Initiatives Project Manager in Culver City, CA.
Pay Rate Range: $70 to $76/hr on W2 (all inclusive)
Project Duration: - 6+ months
Location: - Culver City, CA
Description
This role manages strategic projects, including research, assessments, and follow-through on approved recommendations. The Strategic Initiatives Project Manager clarifies needs, recommends scope and delivery approaches for leadership approval, and manages execution from initial brief through final review and implementation follow-through. Alongside delivery, this person identifies recurring initiative types and builds practical playbooks, a centralized vendor library, and reusable project resources that make future work easier to scope and manage. They use approved AI tools and automation to improve research synthesis, project coordination, documentation, and reporting.
Responsibilities
· Partner with Growth Operations and leaders to clarify requests, define intended outcomes, and recommend scope, ownership, and delivery approaches.
· Turn ambiguous asks into practical project briefs and plans, identifying deliverables, owners, milestones, dependencies, and decisions needed.
· Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping through delivery, coordinating partners, resolving execution issues, and escalating decisions that require leadership direction.
· Translate approved recommendations into actionable workstreams, establish accountable owners, and drive follow-through on agreed commitments.
· Maintain a consolidated view of active and upcoming initiatives, providing visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, and decisions needed.
· Identify recurring initiative types and develop practical playbooks, scoping templates, and review processes that clarify how this work is supported.
· Build and maintain a centralized vendor library capturing capabilities, costs, past engagements, deliverables, outcomes, and lessons learned.
· Use approved AI tools and automation to simplify project execution and capture reusable knowledge; apply lessons from completed projects to anticipate needs and improve future delivery.
Key Qualifications
· Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs or projects in a large organization, including work with evolving requirements and senior stakeholders.
· Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear recommendations, project plans, and delivered outcomes.
· Strong judgment and critical thinking, with the confidence to probe assumptions, clarify ownership, and recommend changes to scope or approach.
· Experience coordinating vendors or consultants, reviewing deliverables, and managing stakeholder feedback and approval processes.
· Strong program management and operational skills, including managing dependencies, risks, budgets, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
· Demonstrated experience using AI tools and automation to improve project execution, reporting, analysis, or operational workflows, with appropriate review for accuracy and confidentiality.
· Experience building reusable processes and configuring project management or operational systems that improve visibility and reduce manual effort.
· Strong written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to summarize progress, frame decisions, and influence follow-through without direct authority.
· Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion.
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience supporting executive-sponsored initiatives, business planning cycles, or leadership operating rhythms.
· Experience building and administering Airtable databases, interfaces, dashboards, and automations.
· Experience improving internal operations or establishing new program management practices.
· Experience partnering with change management teams on organizational or operating model initiatives.
· Experience working at a leading global technology organization.
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