Dice
Posted 3 days agoVerified live 1d ago
Junior Project Manager
Brief overview
Remote
UndergradOr in progress
2+ yrsMinimum
WorkdayEnterprise SaaS ImplementationsCross-Functional Workstream CoordinationPlanning and SchedulingDependency ManagementStatus ReportingRisk and Issue ManagementMonday.comSharePointProject Management CertificationProject Management
About the company
Dicedice.com
Dice is the go-to career marketplace for tech professionals.
Job description
Summary
Dice is seeking a Junior Project Manager to support a large, cross-functional Workday implementation. The role manages day-to-day project planning, coordination, governance, risk tracking, stakeholder communications, and implementation activities across functional, technical, and partner teams.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical-path activities
- Coordinate day-to-day project activities across HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, Security, Data, Change Management, and implementation-partner teams
- Schedule and facilitate project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and decision forums
- Prepare agendas, capture decisions and action items, assign owners, and follow through to completion
- Maintain project governance materials, status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, decision logs, and other project documentation
- Track risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; escalate concerns with clear context and recommended next steps
- Monitor workstream progress and proactively identify conflicts, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies
- Support requirements, design, configuration, data conversion, integration, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization activities
- Coordinate testing schedules, defect-management activities, readiness checkpoints, and deliverable reviews
- Work closely with the Workday implementation partner and internal teams to align responsibilities, timelines, and acceptance criteria
- Help functional and technical teams convert discussions into specific actions, owners, and deadlines
- Support change-control processes and assess the impact of requested scope, schedule, or resource changes
- Develop concise project communications for stakeholders and leadership
- Maintain organized, accessible project records and ensure that teams are working from current information
- Promote consistent project-management practices without creating unnecessary administrative overhead
Skills
- 2+ years of project management or closely related project-delivery experience
- Experience supporting complex, cross-functional technology or enterprise SaaS implementations
- Experience coordinating internal teams, external implementation partners, and software vendors
- Strong command of core project-management mechanics, including planning, scheduling, dependency management, status reporting, risk and issue management, and meeting facilitation
- Experience coordinating multiple functional and technical workstreams
- Ability to synthesize complex project information into practical status updates, decisions, and next steps
- Proficiency with standard project-management and collaboration tools
- Experience supporting one or more Workday implementations, deployments, or major optimization initiatives
- Familiarity with Workday implementation phases and activities, including design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, cutover, and stabilization
- Familiarity with HR, payroll, finance, or other enterprise business processes
- Experience with Monday.com and SharePoint for project management
- PMP, CAPM, Agile, or comparable project-management certification
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 2+ years of project management or closely related project-delivery experience
- Experience supporting complex, cross-functional technology or enterprise SaaS implementations
- Experience coordinating internal teams, external implementation partners, and software vendors
- Strong command of core project-management mechanics, including planning, scheduling, dependency management, status reporting, risk and issue management, and meeting facilitation
- Experience coordinating multiple functional and technical workstreams
- Ability to synthesize complex project information into practical status updates, decisions, and next steps
- Proficiency with standard project-management and collaboration tools
Nice to Haves
- Experience supporting one or more Workday implementations, deployments, or major optimization initiatives
- Familiarity with Workday implementation phases and activities, including design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, cutover, and stabilization
- Familiarity with HR, payroll, finance, or other enterprise business processes
- Experience with Monday.com and SharePoint for project management
- PMP, CAPM, Agile, or comparable project-management certification
