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Senior Project Manager

Darktrace

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