Senior Project Manager

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BATaircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. Job Description: The Senior Project Manager, Finance & ERP Transformation is a senior project delivery leader within the PMO responsible for managing complex Oracle Fusion ERP andenterprise transformation initiatives across multiple workstreams. This role drives deliveryfrom initiation through go-live and stabilization, ensuring tight schedule management,strong cross-functional coordination, proactive risk and issue escalation, and disciplinedgovernance throughout the project lifecycle. The role requires someone who can understand technical concepts, dependencies, anddelivery risks well enough to coordinate effectively across functional, technical,integration, data, and testing teams, but who is not expected to serve as the hands-ontechnical lead or provide technical solution ownership. Success is defined by on-timeexecution, stakeholder alignment, effective governance, and sustainable businessadoption of ERP-enabled change. What you'll do: Lead end-to-end project management for Oracle Fusion ERP implementations, enhancements, migrations, and transformation programs from charter throughgo-live and hypercare. Manage multiple concurrent workstreams and maintain an integrated project plancovering business, functional, technical, data, testing, and deployment activities. Build and maintain core project management deliverables including schedules,milestone plans, RAID logs, dependency trackers, RACI matrices, and executivestatus reporting. Coordinate closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, systems integrators, andvendor partners to align scope, timing, deliverables, and decisions. Facilitate planning, requirements, fit-gap, and workstream checkpoint sessions withfunctional leads and business process owners. Drive governance routines, executive updates, decision forums, and escalationpaths, while clearly communicating risks, issues, dependencies, and requiredactions. Actively manage the project schedule, critical path, overdue actions, and cross-workstream blockers to keep delivery on track. Coordinate delivery activities across integrations, reporting, data migration,testing, cutover, and deployment without acting as the technical authority forsolution design. Partner with program leadership and finance stakeholders on budget tracking,forecast updates, variance reporting, and go-live readiness activities. Manage vendor and systems integrator performance against plans, milestones,and contractual commitments. Required qualifications: 6+ years of project management experience, including 5+ years leading ERP programs or large enterprise transformation initiatives in mid-to-large organizations. Demonstrated experience leading Oracle Fusion ERP projects or closely related Oracle ERP transformation programs. Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously while maintaining a tightly controlled integrated schedule and clear accountability across teams. Strong understanding of ERP delivery lifecycles, including planning, design, build, test, data migration, cutover, go-live, and stabilization. Ability to understand technical concepts, integration dependencies, environment readiness, data migration risks, and testing implications sufficiently to coordinate teams and drive delivery, without being the primary technical resource. Strong command of project management fundamentals including scope, schedule, RAID management, dependency tracking, status reporting, and governance. Experience working with executive sponsors, business process owners, IT leaders, vendors, and third-party systems integrators. Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills, with the ability to drive action and elevate issues clearly and promptly. PMP certification or equivalent is preferred. Preferred qualifications: Experience in a PMO or enterprise transformation office supporting large cross-functional programs is preferred. Experience with Oracle Fusion workstreams such as Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Projects, HCM, or Reporting/Analytics is helpful. Additional value comes from cloud ERP transformation experience, enterprise governance exposure, and prior experience as a business analyst, functional lead, or ERP power user. $160,000 - $250,000 a year Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information. Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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