Principal Project Manager - Remote Opportunity

Description

Futures start here.

Where first steps, new friendships, and confident learners are born.

At KinderCare Learning Companies, the first and only early childhood education provider recognized with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, we offer a variety of early education and child care options for families.

We pave the way for their lifelong learning journey ahead.

And we want you to join us in shaping a future we can all be proud to share-in neighborhoods, at work, and in schools nationwide.

At KinderCare Learning Companies, you'll use your skills and expertise to support the work (and fun) that happens in our sites and centers every day.

From marketers and strategists to financial analysts and data engineers, and so much more, we're all passionate about crafting a world where children, families, and organizations can thrive.

The Principal Project Manager will lead large-scale, cross-disciplinary projects in a dynamic environment, perfect for those skilled in navigating complex technical challenges while prioritizing customer experience and business objectives.

This high-impact role involves overseeing the successful delivery of critical initiatives on our strategic roadmap, requiring significant personal accountability and autonomy.

The ideal candidate will excel in planning, designing, and executing processes with product and engineering teams, driving decision-making and roadmap development to achieve measurable organizational impact.

They will thrive in a fast-paced, innovative setting, collaborating with diverse teams and effectively managing bottlenecks and escalations while balancing business needs with technical constraints.

Key qualities for success include strong leadership, negotiation skills, analytical abilities, and the capability to break down large projects into manageable tasks for timely delivery.Qualifications



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+ Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional strategic initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects within product teams.
+ Create program governance structures that empower teams to achieve successful outcomes.
+ Manage executive and execution governance, program status reporting and Sr.

Leader escalations & communications.
+ Define multi-org product and operational standards, track & reports program OKRs, dashboards, and processes.
+ Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery, and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers, Scrum leads and engineering leads to develop program plans that include product and execution roadmaps, dependency tracking, and capacity plans.
+ Facilitate Intake, prioritization, Monthly budget reviews, Annual and Quarterly planning, and weekly Scrum-of-Scrum between Product, Engineering, and partner teams across the enterprise.
+ Drive continuous improvement across multi-org program teams enabling pr...