Project Manager

The Project Manager drives approved Product initiatives through the Product Development Lifecycle by making plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, owners, readiness, and decisions visible. The role organizes execution across functions so contributors can focus on their work and Product leaders can focus on Product decisions. The Project Manager is a systems-minded delivery leader, not a meeting scheduler or task chaser. The role is accountable for momentum, clarity, and escalation while leaving product, technical, academic, design, creative, AI-quality, and business decisions with the appropriate owners. Key Responsibilities 1. Project Planning Turn approved scope and readiness criteria into an integrated plan with functional estimates and commitments. Coordinate discovery contributors and dependencies when assigned. Identify critical path, decision points, cross-functional handoffs, resource assumptions, and risks before they become blockers. Maintain original and current forecasts, record approved changes and coordinate accepted handoff, remaining obligations and project closure. 2. Execution & Coordination Facilitate the minimum operating cadence needed to keep work aligned and moving. Track dependencies, risks, blockers, decisions, actions, and readiness in the shared system of record rather than shadow trackers. Ensure owners understand commitments and escalate when work cannot proceed within agreed parameters. 3. Scope Change & Readiness Make proposed scope cha