Senior Project Manager - Professional Services
Vancouver · Austin · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Vancouver · Austin
About MongoDB
- MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
- With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
- Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
- To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
- MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
- MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
About the role
- MongoDB is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead complex customer-facing Professional Services engagements and serve as the accountable delivery owner for customer requirements, execution, and business outcomes.
- The role translates customer objectives into a clear delivery strategy, aligns execution to expected outcomes, and drives alignment across scope, schedule, risk, dependencies, stakeholder actions, governance, and success measures.
- The person acts as a consultative partner to the customer’s business, helping shape priorities, tradeoffs, and decisions while keeping delivery focused on value realization.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex Professional Services engagements from kickoff through closeout, maintaining continuity, accountability, and focus on value realization
- Own delivery accountability for customer requirements, execution, and business outcomes, keeping work aligned to customer priorities
- Drive alignment, planning, and execution using industry-standard delivery practices across scope, schedule, milestones, risks, dependencies, governance, and success measures
- Serve as the primary interface to the customer executive sponsor and own financial accountability for overall engagement health
- Shape and structure delivery and scope by clarifying objectives, guiding priorities and tradeoffs, and translating business goals into an executable delivery approach
- Partner closely with customer stakeholders and MongoDB account, services, and technical teams to build alignment, remove blockers, and sustain momentum
- Balance customer outcomes with business objectives, using sound judgment to manage risk, commercial awareness, resource efficiency, and overall engagement health
- Lead governance cadences, including executive reviews and quarterly business reviews, to reassess priorities and keep resources focused on the highest-value work
Requirements
- 8+ years in a project manager or delivery leader role, with a proven track record of leading projects for enterprise-scale clients in a SaaS product company
- Strong executive communication and leadership skills, with credibility across senior customer stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams
- Strong command of delivery fundamentals, including scope management, milestone planning, dependency management, risk management, executive reporting, and escalations
- Comfort operating in technical environments, paired with strong Professional Services business acumen across delivery economics, resource planning, commercial awareness, and engagement health
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability, strong judgment, and comfort navigating ambiguity, tradeoffs, and complex delivery decisions
- Proven leadership delivering outcomes across cross-functional teams and customer stakeholders, with the ability to influence, align, and drive accountability without direct authority
Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading database, cloud, modernization, or software delivery initiatives
- Familiarity with MongoDB products, services, and common customer transformation journeys
- Familiarity with AI and Agentic application architectures, ecosystem services, and emerging customer use cases
- Practical experience leading the delivery of AI-integrated projects
Benefits
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
Workplace
- Hybrid working model based in Vancouver
Skills
- SaaS
- Cloud
- AI
- Agentic Application Architectures