{"id":2597416,"url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-project-manager-dallas-tx","title":"Project Manager - Dallas, TX","company":{"id":3186451,"name":"Photon","domain":"photon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/photon-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":46,"open_postings":605,"ghost_share":0.904,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dallas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":38000,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":38000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-02-03T06:31:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-02-03","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T18:32:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":262,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":261},"description":"A Senior Project Manager is responsible for guiding complex, large-scale projects from inception to completion, ensuring they align with strategic business objectives. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, managing significant budgets, and navigating high-stakes initiatives to deliver results that support organizational growth. They provide direction and mentorship to project teams while overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of projects.\nBy serving as the central point of contact for stakeholders, executives, and clients, the Senior Project Manager ensures clear and consistent communication across all levels. Their work directly influences a company’s ability to achieve its goals by successfully managing resources, mitigating risks, and ensuring that project outcomes meet quality standards on schedule. This position is key in translating high-level strategy into tangible, impactful results.\nDuties and ResponsibilitiesDevelop comprehensive project charters and detailed project plans that define scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.\nEstablish and manage the project budget, including cost estimation, variance tracking, and financial reporting to stakeholders.\nDirect the procurement and allocation of project resources, including personnel, vendors, and equipment, to ensure project objectives are met.\nImplement a continuous risk management process to identify, assess, and mitigate potential project risks and issues.\nDefine and enforce quality standards for all project deliverables, conducting regular reviews to ensure outcomes align with requirements.\nServe as the primary escalation point for project teams and stakeholders to resolve conflicts and address critical issues.\nLead the hiring, training, and performance management of project team members, providing coaching and mentorship to junior staff.\nOversee the formal project closure process, including final deliverable acceptance, documentation archiving, and a post-mortem analysis to identify lessons learned. \nQualifications\nEducation: A Senior Project Manager typically possesses a bachelor’s degree, often in fields such as business, finance, marketing, or a related discipline. In some cases, a graduate degree may be preferred. Coursework and degrees in computer science, software engineering, or other technical fields can also be advantageous, depending on the industry.\nExperience: To reach the level of a Senior Project Manager, a candidate generally needs between five and ten years of experience in project management. This includes holding progressively responsible roles and demonstrating a track record of successfully leading large and complex projects. Experience in a supervisory or leadership capacity is also a common requirement, as the role involves mentoring and coaching other project managers and team members.\nSkills\nFinancial Forecasting: A Senior Project Manager uses advanced financial analysis to develop precise budget projections and spending models. This involves analyzing historical data and market trends to anticipate costs, ensuring the project remains financially viable and aligned with long-term business objectives.\nStakeholder Negotiation: This skill involves navigating the complex and often competing interests of executives, clients, and team members. The Senior Project Manager is adept at facilitating compromises and securing buy-in to maintain project momentum and strategic alignment.\nAdvanced Risk Modeling: Beyond simple risk identification, this involves using sophisticated techniques to quantify the potential impact of various risks on project timelines and budgets. This allows for the development of proactive, data-driven contingency plans to protect project outcomes.\nStrategic Planning and Execution: This is the ability to align project objectives with the organization’s broader strategic goals. It requires translating high-level business strategy into actionable project plans and ensuring that project execution delivers tangible value to the company.\nTeam Leadership and Mentoring: A Senior Project Manager actively develops the skills and careers of their team members. This involves creating a supportive environment, providing constructive feedback, and offering guidance to cultivate a high-performing and motivated project team.\nExecutive-Level Communication: This skill focuses on distilling complex project information into clear, concise, and impactful updates for senior leadership. It involves presenting critical data and strategic insights in a way that facilitates executive decision-making and maintains stakeholder confidence.\nCompensation, Benefits and Duration\nMinimum Compensation: USD 38,000\nMaximum Compensation: USD 135,000\nCompensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.\nMedical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.\nThis position is not available for independent contractors\nNo applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post","description_format":"text","description_chars":5191,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":10,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T07:30:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.159,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":261,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":38000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-project-manager-dallas-tx","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-project-manager-dallas-tx.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T19:39:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":721,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3186451},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3186451"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fphoton-project-manager-dallas-tx"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fphoton-project-manager-dallas-tx"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fphoton-project-manager-dallas-tx"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/photon-project-manager-dallas-tx\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fphoton-project-manager-dallas-tx"}]}