Koch Industries

Project Manager

Koch Industries • $80K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced project environment.
  • Strong background in project planning, budgeting, and scoping activities.
  • Experience with predictive modeling, custom software development, or data analysis projects.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall.
  • Experience in business transformation and process improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Manage projects to meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations.
  • Lead diverse project teams to ensure effective kickoff and execution.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project execution plans including scope, schedule, and budgets.
  • Identify and manage project dependencies throughout the lifecycle.
  • Conduct regular status meetings and address issues promptly.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to align on deliverables and resources.
  • Proactively communicate project status to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Seek opportunities for innovation and value creation in project management processes.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plans with contributions.
  • Paid vacation and time off.
  • Educational assistance programs.
  • May include paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch is hiring a Project Manager to support Rushmore Labs, a Koch subsidiary. At Rushmore Labs, you will help bring new ideas to life, solve meaningful challenges, and advance ventures with real-world impact. In this role, you will lead cross-functional teams in delivering projects that support key business objectives within and beyond Koch. You will oversee project planning, execution, and control, including schedules, resources, budgets, and scopes of work. We are seeking a proactive leader who can navigate complex projects, remove roadblocks, solve problems, and partner with business leaders to deliver measurable value.

Our Team

This role exists within a Project Management capability that works across the entire business. The team partners closely with leaders throughout the organization to prioritize investments, align resources, and execute projects that improve business performance, scalability, and deliver measurable business results.

The scope and complexity of assigned projects may vary based on experience. Candidates who demonstrate strong organization, communication, learning agility, and the ability to build trust across teams are encouraged to apply.

What You Will Do
  • Manage projects using an approach that ensures the quality and competitive performance expected by stakeholders.
  • Lead project teams consisting of data engineers, software engineers, data analysts, data scientists, business leaders, and 3rd parties to ensure all aspects of the project are kicked off correctly and all details properly considered.
  • Develop and maintain project execution plans appropriate to the size and complexity of the work, including scope, schedule, cost and value tracking, risk and issue management, and implementation.
  • Identify and effectively manage key dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Hold regular status meetings with the project team. Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.
  • Partner with key stakeholders on expected deliverables and timelines and align resources across projects accordingly.
  • Communicate project status proactively to stakeholders across the organization, including leadership.
  • Recognize opportunities for value creation and innovation in the project management work processes.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience leading and coordinating teams cross functionally in a fast-paced environment to meet project deliverables.
  • Experience contributing to or leading project planning, budgeting, or scoping activities
  • Experience working on projects focused on predictive model development, custom software development, or complex data analysis.
  • Experience applying project management methodologies and tools, such as Agile, Waterfall, etc.
  • Experience supporting business transformation and process improvement


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience working in technology, analytics, data, consulting, or another environment involving cross-functional project delivery.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or other relevant industry certifications
  • Experience with Salesforce, Jira, ADO, or other project tracking tools
  • Experience experimenting or implementing artificial intelligence in previous roles or in personal projects


For this role, we anticipate paying $80,000 - $120,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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