Senior Project Manager
Darktrace
- London, United Kingdom
- Senior Level
- 5+ years
- Posted
Skills
Required
- project management
- Professional Services
- cyber
- cyber security / networking concepts
- project governance
- budgeting
- forecasting
- resource planning
- controls
- managing relevant deployments
Preferred
- lifecycle
- project dashboards
Join our Professional Services team as a Senior Project Manager, where you will lead complex, business-critical projects that drive measurable outcomes. You will be responsible for end-to-end project delivery, managing schedules, resources, budgets, and cross-functional dependencies while ensuring compliance with governance requirements. You will also drive stakeholder engagement, define and measure project success, foster a collaborative environment, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- This is an exciting opportunity to shape project delivery standards and contribute to the ongoing evolution of project management best practices across the organization.
- Lead end-to-end project delivery, developing project plans, managing schedules, resources, budgets and cross-functional dependencies while ensuring compliance with governance requirements and lifecycle gates.
- Manage project risks, issues, scope, financials and change requests, proactively implementing mitigation strategies to maintain successful project outcomes.
- Drive stakeholder engagement through effective communication, executive reporting, project dashboards and regular status updates, ensuring alignment across customer, business and technical teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of project management experience, ideally within Professional Services, SaaS, cyber security or another technology-focused environment
- Strong expertise in project governance, risk management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and project controls
- Proven experience delivering complex customer-facing deployment or installation projects involving cross-functional teams, multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior customer and internal delivery stakeholders, maintaining alignment and accountability throughout delivery
- A sound understanding of cyber security or networking concepts, gained through technical experience or managing relevant deployments, with the ability to understand how customer environments affect installation and delivery
- Strong communication, leadership, organisational and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain technical delivery considerations clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience improving customer project delivery processes and embedding project management best practices
- Confidence discussing technical requirements, dependencies and risks with customer IT, networking or security teams and internal technical specialists
