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The Project Director provides high-level guidance and oversight to the Project Managers (PMs) assigned to their programs.\n\nKey Accountabilities & Responsibilities\n\nExecutive Governance & Reporting: Establish and chair the client-side Steering Committee meetings, provide strategic updates, manage high-level risks, and secure executive sign-off on major program milestones and funding.\n\nStrategic Program Ownership: Define the overall program roadmap and business case for multi-year, multi-phase engagements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and the client’s long-term strategic objectives.\n\nComplex Stakeholder Management: Navigate and resolve political or organizational blockers at the C-suite and VP level on both the client and company side.\n\nRisk Mitigation: Conduct strategic reviews of individual project plans managed by PMs, proactively identifying systemic risks, resource conflicts, and commercial threats before they impact delivery.\n\nCommercial & Financial Oversight: Oversee the consolidated program budget, manage the P&L for the entire engagement, and ensure all contract terms, change orders, and invoicing milestones are met to maximize commercial success.\n\nMethodology Adherence: Mentor Project Managers on applying the company’s PMO methodology to extremely large-scale and non-standard project environments while ensuring core compliance standards are maintained.\n\nForecast Review: Review the budget forecast and resource allocation forecast prepared by the PMs to ensure comprehensiveness and accuracy.\n\nKnowledge & Skills Requirements\n\nRequired Technical Mastery: Expert, demonstrable experience leading multi-year, multi-stream software implementation programs. Deep understanding of financial management, revenue recognition, and program control frameworks.\n\nOrganizational Knowledge: Extensive experience successfully executing programs within complex, global enterprise client environments, particularly navigating matrixed organizational structures.\n\nSpecific Certification/Training: Advanced Program Management is strongly preferred.\n\nLeadership & Influence: Proven executive presence and a track record of driving large-scale change, influencing strategies and securing commitments from senior, often resistant, stakeholders.\n\nTop Success Criteria\n\nProgram Success: Achieve executive sign-off on the final Program Completion Certificate and successful realization of the original business value proposition.\n\nProgram Profitability: Maintain the overall contracted program within the initial budgeted parameters.\n\nReferenceability: Secure the customer as a reference for the company.\n\nProcess Compliance: Coach the PM to ensure that the project passes all internal project audits demonstrating adherence to PMO documentation and methodology standards.\n\nBenefits\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is Negotiable. Salary ranges are determined by role, level and location. Individual pay is influenced by work location, skills, experience and education. Compensation may include variable incentives.\n\nCentric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Centric Software","rawCompany":"centric software","city":"Campbell","state":"CA","isRemote":true,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T04:12:06.410Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541611","title":"Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services","slug":"administrative-management-and-general-management-consulting-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Program Director Enterprise Software (Remote)","description":"Job Title\nProject Director\n\nLocation\nAnywhere in US / Remote\n\nExperience Level\n10 Years\n\nCompensation\nNegotiable\n\nJob Description\nThe Project Director is the executive owner and governor for the company’s most complex, high-value, and strategically important software implementation programs. 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