Senior Project Manager

Are you a project leader who thrives on orchestrating complex initiatives across teams and platforms?

Join Camplight, where your expertise will ensure large-scale platform and cloud initiatives are delivered efficiently, on time, and aligned with strategic objectives — enabling our engineering and FIT teams to innovate without friction.

What you’ll be working on?

You’ll lead major programs and projects, spanning multiple teams and technologies, including cloud platforms and internal platform services. Your work will enable smooth delivery, high-quality outcomes, and clear communication across stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Running large, complex platform or cloud initiatives end-to-end
• Coordinating delivery across multiple teams, including engineering, operations, and FIT teams
• Driving project planning, execution, and scheduling
• Tracking risks, dependencies, and blockers, ensuring proactive mitigation
• Managing communication and updates to stakeholders, including executive leadership
• Aligning project outcomes with organizational goals and strategic priorities
• Supporting resource planning, budgeting, and capacity management

Your Role

Your role will focus on program leadership, cross-team coordination, and strategic delivery:

• Take ownership of major platform or cloud initiatives from conception to completion
• Facilitate collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring clarity and alignment
• Establish project management standards, documentation, and best practices
• Anticipate and mitigate risks, escalating issues when needed
• Provide clear reporting, updates, and visibility for leadership and stakeholders
• Coach and mentor project managers or team leads supporting your programs

About Camplight

We build self-organizing technical teams, offer software development services, and work with businesses and entrepreneurs to create new products. With over 300 successful software projects, some ongoing for over 8 years, we strive for long-term success for our partners. By following the principles of self-management and organizing as a cooperative, we achieve 95% satisfaction among them. We seek the best talent to join us and value transparency, collaboration, trust, responsibility, and innovation. When joining Camplight, you can become a co-owner of the cooperative, allowing you to steer the business and share in the rewards of our collective success.

What are we looking for?

• Ownership mindset: You take responsibility for delivering projects successfully, even in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Project management expertise: You have proven experience leading large-scale technical initiatives from start to finish.
• Communication skills: You excel at conveying project status, risks, and requirements to technical teams and stakeholders alike.
• Leadership and coordination: You can manage dependencies, facilitate collaboration, and resolve conflicts across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program or project management for technology initiatives, ideally in platform or cloud environments
• Proven experience running large, multi-team, and multi-platform projects end-to-end
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)
• Experience with risk management, resource planning, and stakeholder communication
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing technical teams, including project managers or team leads
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, platform engineering, or software development lifecycle
• Experience in a cooperative or self-organizing team environment

What do we offer?

We focus on health, wealth, and empowering relationships:

• Fully remote work with flexible work hours
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to become a co-owner of the cooperative
• Individual career development plan
• Friendly team and company culture
• Prioritization of mental and physical health in the workplace, with freedom to make decisions about oneself
• Empowering relationships for engineering alongside colleagues who cherish growth mindsets in a unique environment that blends service and product craftsmanship

What does the interview process look like?

Initial Interview: A 45-minute cultural and technical interview with two Camplight team members to assess program management experience, leadership style, and approach to complex project delivery.

Program / Project Deep Dive (choose one):

• Homework Assignment: A scenario-based project planning or risk management exercise (~2 hours) followed by a 1-hour discussion.
• Live Session: A 2-hour workshop simulating program coordination, cross-team facilitation, and stakeholder communication.

Regardless of the outcome, we provide constructive feedback to support your professional growth.