[Hiring] Director of Project Management Office @Stoneridge Software

Role Description

Stoneridge is looking for a strategic Director of the Project Management Office (PMO) to build and lead a consultative, outcome-driven project management practice that enables profitable growth, predictable delivery, and exceptional client experiences.

This role goes beyond traditional project governance. The PMO Director is a senior delivery leader, accountable for how work gets delivered, including:

• Project execution standards
• Financial performance
• Resource utilization
• Tooling
• Continuous improvement across the consulting delivery lifecycle

The Director partners closely with delivery VP leadership and client teams to ensure delivery excellence that will scale with the business serving both Enterprise and SMB client bases.

A Day in the Life

• Establish and mature a consultative PM model where project managers act as trusted advisors to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proactively manage scope, risk, value realization, and outcomes, and influence decisions, not just track tasks.
• Define PM role expectations, competencies, and career paths aligned to a consulting mindset.
• Coach and develop PMs to operate effectively in complex, multi-workstream engagements.
• Ensure PMs are embedded as strategic partners in client delivery.
• Design and lead a scalable PMO resource model that blends senior, consultative PMs with tactical and administrative PM roles.
• Respond to client escalation and provide project management where necessary on client-facing projects.
• Own PMO contribution to delivery financial performance, including billable utilization, margin protection, forecast accuracy, change management, and scope control.
• Partner with practice and delivery leaders to optimize resource allocation across projects.
• Balance utilization targets with quality and sustainability.
• Anticipate capacity needs and delivery risks.
• Build systems, processes, and tools for accurate tracking of backlog.
• Ensure PMs actively manage project economics, not just schedules.
• Define and enforce delivery standards, playbooks, and governance models that scale.
• Evolve governance to be rightsized and value-driven, avoiding bureaucracy.
• Ensure consistent application of project initiation and readiness, financial and delivery reporting, risk, issue, and dependency management, and change control and decision escalation.
• Lead the use of technology and AI to reduce administrative overhead and improve insight.
• Partner with internal teams to select, implement, and optimize PMO tools and platforms.
• Champion continuous modernization of delivery operations through smart tooling.
• Serve as a key leader within delivery operations, driving process simplification and improved cross-team collaboration.
• Use data and insights to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead retrospectives and improvement initiatives across projects and portfolios.
• Continuously refine delivery models to support growth, complexity, and scale.
• Partner with executive leadership on delivery strategy, capacity and investment decisions, and risk management and escalation.
• Collaborate closely with practice leaders, client success leadership, and sales and presales teams to ensure delivery readiness.
• Represent the PMO as a strategic function, not a compliance layer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in consulting delivery, project/program management, or delivery operations.
• Proven experience building or transforming a PMO within a consulting organization.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing utilization, margin, and delivery economics.
• Demonstrated success leading teams through change and operational maturity.
• Experience leveraging technology, automation, and/or AI to improve delivery efficiency.
• Excellent executive communication, influence, and coaching skills.
• Consultative and outcome-oriented.
• Comfortable balancing strategy with execution.
• Data-driven, pragmatic, and improvement-focused.
• Trusted advisor to executives and clients.
• Strong people leader who develops future delivery leaders.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both spoken and written English.

Requirements

• This position is available remotely in the United States.
• Incumbent is expected to travel across the United States and Canada for industry events and, as needed, for onsite client, project, delivery, or in-person collaboration at company office locations in Fargo, ND and Minneapolis, MN.
• Travel is expected to be up to 25-50% of the role.
• Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S.

Compensation

Our philosophy is to provide compensation that is Competitive, Equitable, and Driven by Performance. Various factors impact our pay ranges including market conditions and national salary data. To determine competitive salaries within this range we consider candidates' skills, qualifications, and experience. These are national ranges, inclusive of bonus opportunities and could represent multiple role levels.

US (USD): $189,600-$288,300

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) contribution program (US) or RRSP Benefits (Canada)
• Life insurance
• Disability Benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Paid flexible time off
• Paid sick time (US) or floater days (Canada)
• Paid holidays
• Flexible work schedules
• Mobile/internet reimbursement
• Employee and family assistance program
• Learning and development funding
• Employer charitable contribution
• Paid business mileage
• Home office and wellness allowance (US Only)
• HSA contribution (US Only)