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Remote only
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a CDTO Project Manager based in the United States.
The CDTO Project Manager will oversee a connected portfolio of technology initiatives spanning data and analytics, digital measurement, AI implementation, and cross-functional project coordination. This role is central to building a structured planning and prioritization function that helps technology teams deliver work efficiently and predictably. The successful candidate will establish clear intake processes, define project scopes, manage dependencies, and coordinate capacity across competing organizational priorities. Working closely with engineering, data, design, product, marketing, and functional leaders, the project manager will ensure stakeholders have reliable information on timelines, trade-offs, and progress. The position combines relationship management, operational discipline, and technical fluency, with an emphasis on creating sustainable processes in an evolving environment. This is a full-time remote opportunity within a global nonprofit, with substantial collaboration aligned to US Central and Eastern time zones.
Portfolio and program management: Manage a connected portfolio covering data and analytics, stage-one instrumentation, AI implementation, and cross-functional technology requests. Coordinate priorities, dependencies, milestones, and delivery plans across teams sharing resources and stakeholders.
Project intake and prioritization: Establish and maintain a single intake process for technology requests, ensuring incoming work is classified, scoped, and prioritized within agreed timelines. Maintain a published portfolio priority list and ensure changes follow a transparent, documented process.
Project planning and governance: Ensure each accepted initiative has a defined scope, milestones, dependencies, dates, and an accountable sponsor before work begins. Maintain project charters, scope and dependency maps, RAID logs, decision logs, change-control documentation, and close-out reviews.
Capacity planning and resource coordination: Work with technology team managers and requesting stakeholders to plan capacity against agreed priorities. Facilitate written negotiations when demand exceeds available capacity, document trade-offs, and make the impact of displaced work visible.
Data program coordination: Manage the project lifecycle for data and analytics initiatives, including request scoping, prioritization, capacity planning, and status reporting. Coordinate measurement and funnel initiatives with product and marketing teams around a shared source of truth.
Stage-one instrumentation: Coordinate cross-functional data and marketing work against the campaign calendar. Support the delivery of conversion experiments, including A/B testing across free-event and product transitions in three-month cycles, measured against leakage and next-product KPIs.
AI implementation roadmap: Coordinate a multi-year roadmap of workflow automations across organizational functions, with each initiative tied to a defined internal client and measurable value. Support ongoing implementation and scaling through 2027, emphasizing clearly scoped workflows and practical outcomes.
Cross-functional stakeholder management: Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders requesting technology capacity. Communicate project status, expectations, dates, risks, and trade-offs clearly, and negotiate priorities with functional managers against the published portfolio plan.
Reporting and communication: Maintain current project boards and deliver written monthly status reports across the portfolio. Provide accurate, leadership-ready reporting without requiring additional follow-up and ensure decisions and changes are visible to relevant stakeholders.
Demand forecasting: Collect quarterly demand plans from requesting teams to support annual capacity and budget planning. Use stated demand and portfolio priorities to improve forward planning and resource allocation.
Process improvement and AI-supported coordination: Help shape and improve the project management system used for documentation, boards, transcripts, and reporting. Contribute to automation that reduces routine coordination and documentation, allowing greater focus on judgment, stakeholder relationships, and delivery.
Performance measurement: Establish a baseline during the first month and review progress after 90 days. Measure improvements in intake discipline, reduction of unplanned work, adherence to portfolio priorities, reporting reliability, and stakeholder visibility into requests.
Scope and decision boundaries: Coordinate planning, negotiation, and reporting while respecting technology team managers’ responsibility for technical priorities, assignments, and capacity allocation within their teams.
Professional experience: At least 5 years of project management experience, including direct responsibility for managing a portfolio of concurrent projects in a technical environment such as data, engineering, platforms, or digital products.
Project management training: Formal project management training from PMI is preferred, including PMP, CAPM, or equivalent PMI coursework. Comparable formal training from another recognized organization will also be considered.
Technical fluency: Ability to work effectively with engineers, analysts, and designers, understand technical work sufficiently to define scope and sequencing, assess estimates, and identify dependencies without needing to perform the technical work personally.
Process development: Demonstrated experience establishing and sustaining intake, prioritization, planning, and reporting processes in environments where formal structures were previously limited or absent.
Prioritization and negotiation: Strong judgment and negotiation skills, including the ability to maintain agreed priorities under pressure, communicate trade-offs, and confidently explain decisions to peers and senior stakeholders.
Project governance: Experience managing project scopes, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, change control, decision logs, and regular reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
Communication skills: Clear, concise, and structured written communication. The ability to produce dependable status reports and communicate project expectations, risks, and decisions is essential.
Project management tools: Advanced experience with Asana and Jira, with the ability to bridge engineering workflows and broader organizational project management needs.
Documentation and AI tools: Working knowledge of Notion and a strong interest in using AI tools to automate routine coordination, documentation, and reporting.
Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to coordinate multiple teams, manage competing demands, build trust with stakeholders, and maintain accountability without relying on excessive administrative processes.
Mission alignment: Commitment to the values of awareness, compassion, and wisdom in professional relationships and collaborative work.
Remote work requirements: Ability to work remotely with a reliable personal workspace and high-speed internet, while maintaining substantial real-time collaboration aligned with US Central and Eastern time zones.
Location flexibility: Candidates based outside the United States may also be considered if they meet the role requirements and can accommodate the expected working hours.
Compensation: $55,000–$65,000 annually, depending on experience.
Work arrangement: Remote, with candidates outside the United States also considered.
Employment type: Full-time.
Paid time off: 200 hours of PTO annually.
Paid retreat time: 40 hours of paid retreat time annually.
Health and insurance benefits: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as short-term and long-term disability coverage and a Health Savings Account (HSA) for US-based employees.
Professional development: Opportunities to develop skills and expertise.
Meditation programs: Complimentary access to all meditation programs.
Retreat discounts: Reduced fees for retreats with Mingyur Rinpoche.
Work schedule: Standard Monday-to-Friday working hours aligned with US Central and Eastern time zones.
Application deadline: October 18, 2026, or until a suitable candidate is selected.