Project Manager - Product Initiatives

Armstrong

• $80K — $95K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, IT, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of project or program management experience, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Experience in writing and managing business requirements (BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria).
  • Proven track record of cross-functional launches involving IT, operations, and vendors.
  • Strong proficiency in Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in status reporting to executives.
  • Ability to present complex concepts clearly to large audiences and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the product initiatives roadmap as the single source of truth for all initiatives.
  • Build and manage detailed project plans with clear scope and milestones.
  • Map and manage dependencies across various projects to ensure alignment.
  • Plan around company moratoriums and flag potential conflicts early.
  • Secure and schedule shared resources, escalating capacity issues as needed.
  • Coordinate with vendors and third-party partners on deliverables and timelines.
  • Oversee launch readiness, including training and post-launch support.

Benefits

  • Play a key role in launching new products across various services.
  • Gain broad exposure by working with multiple departments within the organization.
  • Collaborate with product owners and leadership to drive results from business requirements.
  • Contribute to improving project management processes and tools as the company evolves.
  • Enjoy a competitive compensation package in a culture built on trust.
Full Job Description

The Project Manager, Product Initiatives position owns delivery of Armstrong's product roadmap, from signed-off business requirements to launch. This role sits between Marketing & Strategy, Product, IT, Engineering, Field Operations and outside vendors. Product owners set the what and why; the Project Manager makes sure it gets done: plans are realistic, dependencies are visible, requirements stay current and launches land on the dates we commit to. You will run multiple initiatives at once across video, broadband, Wi-Fi, mobile and voice, many sharing the same constrained IT, vendor and field resources.


What You'll Be Doing:

Portfolio and project delivery

  • Keep the product initiatives roadmap as the single source of truth: owner, dependencies, constraints, milestones and status for every initiative.
  • Build and maintain project plans for each initiative, with clear scope, milestones, owners and go/no-go criteria.
  • Map and manage dependencies across projects, e.g. pricing alignment before a new product introduction.
  • Plan around company moratoriums (holiday and Super Bowl change freezes) and flag conflicts early.
  • Secure and schedule shared resources (IT, provisioning, billing, network engineering, field technicians) and escalate when capacity puts dates at risk.
  • Coordinate vendors and any third-party partners on deliverables, contracts, inventory and release timelines.
  • Run launch readiness: training, care and sales scripts, marketing handoffs, pilots and employee trials, and post-launch hypercare.

Business requirements stewardship

  • Facilitate discovery with product owners and stakeholders; draft and refine Business Requirements Documents (BRDs).
  • Maintain requirements through the lifecycle: version control, change requests, sign-offs and traceability from requirement to test to launch.
  • Turn business requirements into work IT, engineering and vendors can act on, with acceptance criteria.
  • Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and confirm launched features match approved requirements.

Governance and communication

  • Run a weekly initiative review with owners; publish a concise status report for leadership (on track / at risk / blocked).
  • Keep RAID logs (risks, assumptions, issues, decisions) and drive issues to closure.
  • Run post-launch retrospectives and improve PM templates and processes over time.

What You'll Need:

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of project or program management, including multiple projects with shared resources at once.
  • Experience writing and managing business requirements (BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria) and running change control.
  • Proven record of cross-functional launches involving IT, operations and outside vendors.
  • Strong skills in Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira or similar tools, plus Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Clear written and spoken communication, including concise status reporting to executives.
  • Ability to present complex concepts clearly and confidently to large audiences and senior leadership.
  • Comfort holding peers and vendors accountable without direct authority.

Preferred

  • Experience in cable, broadband, telecom or another subscription service business.
  • Familiarity with video platforms, DOCSIS/fiber, Wi-Fi hardware, billing/provisioning systems, or MVNO operations.
  • PMP, PgMP, CAPM, CSM or similar certification.
  • Experience with pricing, packaging or product launches in consumer markets.

What is in it For You:

  • Play a key role in bringing new Armstrong products and initiatives from plan to launch across broadband, video, Wi-Fi, mobile and voice
  • Work across Marketing & Strategy, Product, IT Engineering and Field Operations, gaining broad exposure throughout the organization
  • Partner with product owners, leadership and outside vendors to solve challenges and turn business requirements into results
  • Help shape and improve project management processes and tools as Armstrong continues to grow and evolve its product portfolio
  • Competitive compensation and benefits, in a collaborative culture built on trust


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