Technical Project Manager

About

We are seeking two Technical Project Managers (TPM) to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects in a hands-on, high-visibility role that requires technical expertise and cross-functional responsibility.

As a TPM, you must exhibit excellent interpersonal, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills, and foster open communication across project teams. You will organize and oversee projects from inception to completion, coordinating activities across teams to meet both business and technical objectives. Business needs can change rapidly, so you’ll need to stay connected with both internal and external dependencies to ensure high-quality and on-time delivery. In this role, you will work with engineering, operations, corporate, security, and business teams to define project strategy and requirements, manage project metrics, and ensure consistency across the program.

The ideal candidates will develop a deep understanding of our technology, effectively communicate its functionality, and possess the technical depth necessary for success in their role, while also demonstrating a strong commitment to productivity, automation, and innovative thinking for continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple matrix partners
• Defines project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Implements and manages initiatives across various platforms
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, proactively ensuring that teams are "in sync" in terms of communication, schedules, issues, etc.
• Manages mostly high-priority projects in terms of complexity, risk, and/or business criticality while managing multiple projects simultaneously, juggling activities, and prioritizing accordingly
• Identifies, mitigates, prioritizes, manages, and resolves project issues, constraints, dependencies and risks
• Creates and manages the overall plan/roadmap, including all project tasks, dependencies, and critical paths
• Champions and serves as a key contributor to the continuous improvement of PM best practices, using innovative ideas to increase the effectiveness of the organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5-8+ years of project management experience in a technical environment, managing large-scale projects, and program management
• Proven experience in managing infrastructure, platform, and security focused initiatives, including software development lifecycle (SDLC) projects, enterprise upgrades, and cross-functional technology implementations
• Strong understanding of benchmarks, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Outstanding leadership skills and experience leading cross-functional teams and ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills; effectively communicating to business leaders, able to work with business, engineering, infrastructure, operations, Corporate and information Security
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow is a plus, not required
• Possess a deep understanding of technical projects and associated dependencies, able to gauge severity of technical issues
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; motivate teams; resolve conflict; execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Comfortable juggling competing priorities and handling ambiguity. Thrives in an agile and fast-paced environment on highly visible projects and initiatives
• PMP, Agile, or similar certification preferred

Location & Compensation

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range for the Technical Project Manager III role is $108,900 - $147,300. The pay range for

the Technical Project Manager IV role is $135,800 - $183,8300.

The anticipated annual base salary range for these positions is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.