World Wrestling Entertainment

Senior Project Manager

World Wrestling Entertainment • $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in North Carolina, US
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading enterprise IT programs or migrations
  • Strong executive presence and communication skills
  • Ability to operate calmly and decisively under pressure
  • Experience managing complex, multi-threaded delivery environments

Responsibilities

  • Serve as onsite leader for the migration program
  • Build trust with business stakeholders and leadership
  • Prepare the business for migration through proactive communication
  • Identify and manage sentiment issues during migration events
  • Lead onsite migration activities including cutovers and deployments
  • Coordinate delivery across multiple workstreams
  • Facilitate program governance and escalation management
  • Manage engagement with vendors and internal teams
  • Align Helpdesk and support teams for migration events
  • Provide regular executive reporting and updates
Full Job Description

What You’ll Do-

• Serve as the onsite leader and representative of the migration program during planning and migration events

• Build trust and positive engagement with business stakeholders, leadership teams, and end users

• Prepare the business ahead of migration activities through proactive communications and readiness planning

• Proactively identify and contain sentiment hot spots during migration and cutover events

• Lead onsite migration activities including user cutovers, device deployments, and hypercare coordination

• Coordinate delivery across infrastructure, identity, endpoint, and application migration workstreams

• Maintain ownership of project delivery including project plans, RAID management, timelines, and cross-workstream dependencies

• Facilitate program governance including steering committee meetings, milestone reviews, and escalation management

• Manage engagement with vendors, technical SMEs, and internal engineering teams supporting migration delivery

• Ensure local Helpdesk and support teams are aligned and prepared to support migration events

• Provide regular executive reporting including status updates, risk summaries, and delivery forecasts


What Success Looks Like-

• Strong stakeholder trust and confidence across business leadership and technical teams

• End-user sentiment issues identified early and addressed in real time

• Predictable and on-time delivery across migration workstreams

• Clear and consistent communication to program leadership and executive stakeholders

• Smooth migration events with minimal disruption to business operations


What We’re Looking For-

• Proven experience leading enterprise IT programs or migrations

• Strong executive presence and communication skills

• Ability to operate calmly and decisively under pressure

• Experience managing complex, multi-threaded delivery environments

About World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American integrated media and entertainment company primarily known for professional wrestling. It also produces films, music, video games, and other products related to wrestling. The company was founded in 1952 by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondt and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. WWE's programming reaches 800 million homes worldwide in 28 languages. The company's flagship event, WrestleMania, is the largest professional wrestling event in the world and has been held annually since 1985. WWE has a long history of producing successful wrestlers, including Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, John Cena, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Learn more about World Wrestling Entertainment
Size
870 employees
Market Cap
$5.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$131.7 million
5 Year Trend
+8.5%
Revenue
$974.2 million
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