Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Panopto is hiring a Senior Project Manager to drive product initiatives from commitment through customer release. The role coordinates delivery across Product, Engineering, and Design, while ensuring go-to-market readiness and release communications across commercial teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end plan for assigned initiatives — scope, sequence, dependencies, milestones, and readiness criteria from commitment through release
- Break large, ambiguous initiatives into discrete workstreams with clear owners, and keep the group aligned as things shift
- Work alongside Product Managers and Engineering Leads to track delivery against commitments, surface slippage early, and keep cross-team dependencies visible and resolved
- Facilitate the sessions that move work forward — dependency reviews, cross-team planning, release readiness — and make sure they end in decisions
- Translate engineering blockers and technical trade-offs into clear, honest updates for Product leadership and commercial stakeholders
- Drive go-to-market readiness with Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, Support, and Customer Success so enablement lands with the release, not after it
- Coordinate internal and customer-facing release communications, including release notes
- Build the templates, checklists, and repeatable processes that make the next release easier than the last one — using AI tooling to cut the manual overhead
Skills
- 6+ years of project or program management experience, with at least 4+ years specifically embedded within a B2B SaaS Product or R&D organization
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrated experience running delivery with software engineering teams *and* coordinating the go-to-market side of a product launch
- Proven experience driving delivery for complex SaaS architectures (e.g., API integrations, multi-tenant cloud platforms, feature flags, continuous deployment release models)**.**
- Working understanding of the SaaS product lifecycle and agile delivery practices, with the judgment to adapt the process to the situation rather than apply it by the book
- Enough technical fluency to hold a credible conversation with engineers about dependencies, trade-offs, and blockers — you don't need to write code, but you can't be a passenger in the discussion
- Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for planning, tracking, and documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to push back constructively on scope creep
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Demonstrated track record of designing, implementing, or improving cross-functional delivery and GTM release frameworks, rather than just executing within existing ones
- Experience coordinating GTM launch activities with Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, or Customer Success
- Experience presenting, reporting delivery health, and managing trade-offs directly with VP and C-level stakeholders
- Experience sitting inside a Product or R&D organization rather than a central PMO
- Active PMP, PMI-ACP, or CSM certification
- Hands-on experience leveraging modern PM stacks (Jira, Confluence) and AI productivity tools to streamline status reporting, documentation, and risk analysis
- Prior experience in a Product Operations (ProdOps) function
- Familiarity with API-based products, feature flagging, or cloud service constraints
- Experience in EdTech or with higher education or enterprise customers
- Practical use of AI tooling to accelerate planning, synthesis, and reporting work
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Retirement savings plans
- Life and disability insurance programs
- Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
- Remote work eligibility for U.S.-based hires
- Remote work eligibility for international hires; regular trips to the local international office may be required from time to time, where applicable
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