Program Manager

Job#: 3020855

Job Description:

Apex Systems is currently hiring a Project/Program Manager to join a growing client in Greenwood Village, CO.

Term: Contract through 2026, potential to extend and convert to FTE in the future

Location: Greenwood Village, CO

Onsite Requirement: 4 days onsite, 1 day remote per week

Pay range: $65-75/hr

Are you a seasoned Program or Project Manager who excels in complex, multiteam environments and love bringing clarity to ambiguity? We're looking for a strong facilitator, relationship-builder, and strategic driver to support a major multi-phase web portal convergence initiative impacting millions of users.

This is a highly visible, enterprise-level role where you'll partner across Product, Delivery, and Leadership teams to ensure alignment, drive execution, and keep a large program moving forward.

What You'll Do

As the Program Manager, you'll serve as the connective tissue across Product Managers, Product Owners, and Project Managers. Your focus is on facilitation, orchestration, and delivery clarity - not technical solutioning.

You will:

• Drive alignment across multiple product and delivery teams to meet roadmap milestones.
• Track features through the SDLC and ensure dependencies, risks, and timelines are clearly understood.
• Facilitate discussions to resolve blockers, clarify requirements, and bring differing viewpoints together.
• Maintain program-level artifacts: RAID logs, dependency trackers, roadmap alignment, Lucid/Confluence documentation.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, ensuring priorities are clear and action items are followed through.
• Summarize complex conversations into crisp updates for leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Identify gaps, escalate appropriately, and ensure teams are talking at the right time.
• Keep the program on track by asking the right questions, surfacing risks early, and driving structure in ambiguous situations.
• This role is not responsible for technical decision-making - instead, you guide the right people into the right conversations to reach the right outcomes.

What You Bring

We're looking for someone who thrives in enterprise-scale, politically nuanced environments and can manage multiple moving parts with confidence.

Experience

• 5-10+ years in Program or Project Management for software development initiatives.
• Proven success managing complex, multi-lane project/programs
• Strong understanding of SDLC and product development lifecycles.
• Experience navigating cross-departmental dynamics and high-visibility programs
• Bigger picture thinker AND very detail oriented

Core Strengths

• Program leadership: Able to track dependencies, drive alignment, and manage across multiple teams.
• Business-oriented mindset: Focused on user impact, delivery outcomes, and big-picture clarity.
• Curiosity & proactive questioning: You ask "What don't I know?" and seek clarity early.
• Relationship-building: Skilled at partnering with teams that may be reluctant or politically sensitive.
• Communication excellence: Able to cut through confusion and summarize next steps clearly.
• Organization & detail orientation: You track moving parts meticulously and keep teams accountable.
• Courage to escalate: You raise risks early and appropriately.
• Self-starter: You don't wait for answers - you drive clarity and structure.
• Tools: Confluence, Jira, Lucid (or similar), RAID logs, milestone tracking, dependency mapping.

Apply here or email an updated copy of your resume to Emily Pentico at epentico @ apexsystems.com

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join 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. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: 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. 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, 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. 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 Apex team member can provide.