Project Manager | Remote, USA
Company: Optiv
Location: Overland Park, KS (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-08
About this role
The Project Manager leads and directs multiple projects under the guidance of Project Management Office (PMO) leadership. Project Managers aggressively drive projects from inception to completion, identify and document project requirements, support clients on various information security initiatives, keep all stakeholders apprised of project and budget status, and manage issues to resolution. Project Managers are responsible for all aspects of the project over the entire life (initiation, plan, execute, control, close) with focus on the management of project risk and forecasting challenges and devising strategies to overcome and compensate. Project Managers are responsible for driving engagements forward and ensuring projects progress as planned and uninterrupted by comprehensive oversight and control of project activities and timelines.
How you'll make an impact
- The Project Manager is accountable for the execution and delivery of customer-focused security solution projects ensuring uninterrupted progress or delays.
- The Project Manager shall have the skills necessary to drive project progress across multiple stakeholders and levels of oversight with assurance on maintaining progress, timeliness, and effective resource utilization ensuring a minimum of 40 hrs billed per week be each delivery resource.
- The Project Manager shall have the ability to develop strategic project delivery plans, detailed schedules, compensating project controls, cost forecasting, risk management, issues forecast and resolution planning, resource burn-rate analysis, forecasting, and reporting, and daily task management.
- The Project Manager is accountable for the progress of the project; and drives timelines by creating and maintaining schedules (including key deliverables, milestones, and dependencies), understanding the deliverables and the progress toward each milestone, identifying and managing issues, risks, and other potential delays ahead of time, and identifying and drivi...