# Director of Project Management

**Company:** [SmithRx](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/smithrx)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Smartsheet, Jira, Atlas, Stage-Gate, Okrs, Lean, Pmo, Continuous Improvement, Project Management Tools, Risk Mitigation
**Posted:** 2026-04-07

> Leads project management office, owns stage-gate processes, portfolio visibility, and executive reporting for 50+ workstreams. Requires 10+ years PMO experience, cross-functional leadership, and tools like Smartsheet/Jira in fast-paced environments.

## Job Description

## What you will do

### 1. Governance & Stage-Gate Leadership
- Own the Lifecycle: Define and enforce a unified Stage-Gate process (e.g., Intake → Discovery → Alignment → Execution → Post-Launch).
- Gatekeeping: Ensure clear entry/exit criteria and decision frameworks at each gate to minimize "scope churn" and rework.
- Strategic Mapping: Ensure every project in the portfolio is accurately mapped to Company OKRs with a robust risk mitigation plan.
- Trade-off Analysis: Surface critical trade-offs regarding cost, timing, and complexity to enable senior leadership to make high-durability decisions.

### 2. Portfolio Visibility & Executive Insights
- Master Portfolio Ownership: Maintain 100% data integrity across all initiatives, providing a "single source of truth."
- Executive Storytelling: Translate data from 50+ concurrent workstreams into bi-weekly, high-intensity ELT reports that facilitate rapid decision-making.
- Automation & ROI: Partner with Finance and Data Analytics to transition manual tracking into real-time, automated visualization tools (e.g., **Smartsheet**, **Jira**, or **Atlas**).

### 3. Leadership & Capability Building
- Team Development: Lead and mentor a team of project managers, establishing a culture of "Extreme Ownership" and execution excellence.
- Cross-Functional Training: Train Product, Engineering, and Operations teams on effective project management discipline and Stage-Gate rigors.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead retrospectives to identify "information dark spots" and delivery bottlenecks, driving lean improvements across the organization.

### 4. Execution Excellence
- Improve predictability, speed, and quality of project delivery
- Drive accountability across teams for timelines, deliverables, and outcomes
- Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts
- Optimize tools (e.g., **Smartsheet**) to support scalable execution

## What you will bring to SmithRx

### Required Qualifications
- **10+ years** of project management experience, with significant experience in Directive or Enterprise PMO (EPMO) environment.
- Demonstrated success leading innovation pipelines and stage gate processes
- Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with shifting priorities
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making without direct authority
- Strong ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights for leadership
- Experience building or scaling PMO functions and improving organizational capability
- Expertise in project management tools
- **Lean** / Continuous Improvement experience (**preferred**)

### Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with async reporting models to reduce meeting overhead.
- Familiarity with healthcare-specific OKRs and operational excellence (OpEx)

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