Senior Project Manager (Product-Lead) Education Applications

As a Senior Project Manager (Product-Lead) specializing in Education Applications at Daskalos, your role involves owning the end-to-end delivery of school and higher education applications across multiple campuses. With a strong focus on product and solutioning, you will be responsible for translating academic and operational needs into scalable processes and configurations. Your key objective within the first 9-12 months includes launching standardized playbooks, ensuring on-time and on-budget go-lives, achieving high adoption rates of core processes, integrating various systems, and establishing post-go-live governance. Key Responsibilities: - Write lean PRDs/BRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria - Define data models, migrations, and cutover strategies - Run project plans, RAID logs, change control, and cross-functional orchestration - Stand up repeatable playbooks for various project phases - Establish KPIs/SLAs and dashboards for monitoring project progress - Drive change management initiatives including communications, training, and stakeholder alignment - Serve as the main contact for international partners and domestic campus leadership - Lead vendor/SI delivery, enforce scope, and resolve escalations - Facilitate steerco/governance forums and provide executive-ready status updates Qualifications Required: - 8-12+ years of project/program management experience in education applications - Demonstrated implementations in higher education or K-12 at multi-site scale - Hands-on expertise with systems like Digii (Campus), Salesforce, and Canvas LMS - Strong understanding of HE processes and regulatory context - Proficiency in integration patterns, data migration, and UAT/hypercare - Familiarity with tools like Jira/Confluence, Miro/Figma, and SQL/ETL - Experience with Agile/Iterative delivery methodologies and Prosci/ADKAR framework - Excellent written and verbal communication skills for stakeholder management As a Senior Project Manager at Daskalos, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of education applications, driving stakeholder engagement, and maintaining a high standard of quality in project execution.,