Project Manager

Job#: 3034521

Job Description:

We are seeking a Project Manager to support our Data Science team, partnering closely with technical, product, and cross-functional teams to drive delivery of complex initiatives. This role is ideal for a highly organized, adaptable project manager with strong experience in technical project management, Agile delivery, Jira management, and coordination across multiple teams.

Duration: long term open ended contract with the potential to convert to FTE

Location: Greenwood Village, CO

Onsite Requirement: 3 days onsite 2 days remote

The Project Manager will play a key role in facilitating sprint ceremonies, maintaining project visibility, coordinating dependencies, tracking execution, and ensuring leadership has clear, timely status updates. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in fast-moving environments, can pivot quickly as priorities evolve, and excels at building strong working relationships with both technical and product stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Delivery & Sprint Execution

• Facilitate Agile sprint ceremonies, including:
  • Sprint Backlog Refinement
  • Sprint Planning
  • Daily Standups
  • Sprint Retrospectives
• Support teams in maintaining sprint readiness and execution discipline
• Partner with product and technical teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables
• Track sprint progress and identify risks, blockers, and opportunities for adjustment

Jira & Work Tracking

• Own Jira hygiene, reporting, and workflow coordination across initiatives
• Create, organize, and track tickets to support delivery across multiple workstreams
• Maintain visibility into project progress through dashboards, reporting, and status summaries
• Coordinate dependency tracking across teams to ensure work is sequenced appropriately
• Support bug reporting coordination and follow-through with relevant stakeholders
• Create and maintain project structures as needed, including sustainability and change/project tracking artifacts

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Manage complex work across multiple teams, ensuring accountability and alignment
• Build strong relationships with technical teams, product teams, and leadership stakeholders
• Coordinate weekly status updates and leadership-level status reporting
• Lead and organize project-related meetings, including:
• Leadership meetings
• Sprint ceremonies
• Ad hoc working sessions

Quarterly Planning & Leadership Support

• Coordinate quarterly planning activities across initiatives
• Prepare materials and track inputs for quarterly initiative planning
• Support leadership initiative reviews and approval processes
• Help ensure priorities, dependencies, and execution plans are clearly documented and communicated

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in project management, program coordination, or Agile delivery roles
• Strong working knowledge of Jira for ticket creation, tracking, reporting, and workflow management
• Experience supporting technical projects, ideally in data science, platform development, or software/product environments
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex work across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and supporting sprint-based execution
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt quickly and pivot in a fast-changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data science, AI/ML, or internal platform teams
• Familiarity with QA testing coordination and bug triage processes
• Experience preparing leadership-ready project updates and executive summaries
• Strong understanding of dependency management and cross-functional delivery planning

Key Strengths for Success

• Strong technical project management capabilities
• Proficiency in Jira and reporting
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous or evolving work
• Strong relationship-building skills across technical and product organizations
• Ability to keep complex initiatives organized and moving forward
• Comfort with shifting priorities and changing business needs
• Strong follow-through, communication, and attention to detail

Apply here or email a copy of your resume to Emily Pentico at (epentico @ apexsystems.com)

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.