Senior Project Manager - Afternoon - 10Pearls

Company Overview

10Pearls is a global, purpose-driven AI-Native digital engineering partner helping businesses re-imagine, ‎digitalize, and accelerate. As an end-to-end digital technology partner, 10Pearls helps businesses create future-proof, ‎transformative ‎digital products that leverage emerging technologies. ‎10Pearls' clients ‎include Global 2000 enterprises, high growth mid-size ‎businesses, and some of the most exciting ‎start-ups from industries like healthcare, fintech, ‎energy, education, ‎real estate, retail, and hi-tech. ‎Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, 10Pearls has product engineering and ‎software development centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. To learn more, visit https://10pearls.com.

Role

10Pearls is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the day-to-day execution of complex software engagements. This role combines strong project delivery expertise, technical fluency, stakeholder management, and AI-enabled delivery practices to ensure predictable, high-quality project outcomes.

The Senior Technical Project Manager will own day-to-day delivery coordination, planning, tracking, reporting, risk management, and operational execution while working under the direction of the Engagement Lead. The ideal candidate will be comfortable engaging in technical discussions with architects and developers, managing multiple workstreams, and using AI-enabled tools to improve delivery efficiency and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Expected to operate using AI-native delivery practices and continuously improve execution through AI-enabled planning, coordination, reporting, analysis, and workflow automation
• Delivers end-to-end solutions for clients across multiple disciplines including development, architecture, test, business analysis, and project management knowledge
• Takes complete ownership of the project(s) requirements, timelines, quality and team; including proactive communication with onshore and offshore POCs
• Carries an attitude of high energy and positivity and ensures the same is dissipated in the project teams
• Creates a conducive working environment in the team, helps people bring the best in them by being a supportive leader, polite and firm at the same time in his leadership attitude.
• Proactively engages in the understanding of project scope, requirements, and team structure
• Manages both large- and small-scale projects; manages multiple work streams in parallel including technical and operational activities
• Understands and validates the details of project deliverables as provided by clients and Project Delivery Managers; Identifies, analyzes and closes gaps
• Engages with various internal departments and managers to ensure the projects get the required resources, team and infrastructure for a quality delivery
• Strong decision-making ability based on his/her judgment of project needs
• Remains on the forefront of emerging industry practices and evaluates existing project management processes and drives continuous improvement practices; develops clear, efficient and repeatable processes
• Acts as a coach and mentor for PM/APM roles
• Lead team with agile mindset by transferring company culture and values to junior resources
• Collaborating with all project delivery teams with one team approach
• Engages in capability building activities at the organizational level by providing training, experience sharing sessions and process improvement suggestions to peers, colleagues and management
• Engages in technical discussions with architects and developers with enough fluency to make informed delivery decisions, review technical approach, and assess feasibility and risk of proposed solutions
• Uses AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to accelerate status reporting, delivery documentation, and risk tracking
• Applies AI-assisted planning and forecasting to improve estimation accuracy and surface delivery risk earlier
• Uses AI coding assistants to read and understand codebases well enough to participate credibly in technical discussions and make informed delivery decisions
• Identifies and champions opportunities to automate repetitive PM work (status reporting, meeting notes, backlog grooming) across the project team

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software delivery, including at least 5 years managing software development projects.
• Using Agile methodology to coordinate the delivery of a defined software product
• Managing Azure DevOps (ADO) boards including user stories, tasks, sprint assignments, burndown tracking and status updates.
• Running Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, capacity and priority management, sprint reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Reporting and dashboard metrics
• Ensuring team compliance with task updates, status and time recording
• Ensuring each team member provides daily updates, in the structure: what was completed yesterday, what is planned today, blockers, and confidence in sprint goal delivery.
• Ensuring fair and balanced workload distribution across the squad; monitoring capacity to prevent overload.
• Identifying, tracking, escalating and removing impediments impacting delivery timelines or sprint goals.
• Blocker resolution
• Understanding delivery priority, sequence and effort of remaining backlog items; ensuring logical and achievable sprint commitments.
• Maintaining alignment and communication with the Delivery Lead and Product Manager regarding risks, blockers or impacts to delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement through retrospective actions, Agile coaching and championing best practice.