Lead Project Manager

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day. Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company. For more information visit cultureamp.com . How you can help make a better world of work We’re hiring a Lead Project Manager to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract, to continue to drive a complex, cross-functional project involving the overhaul of our technology stack. This project spans solution design / build, systems re-architecture and configuration, data migration, downstream system / reporting changes, end-to-end testing and enablement. This project involves collaborating closely with various internal teams and external vendors that are in US (San Francisco, Austin). You’ll be accountable for the overall project’s delivery, align stakeholders and steering committees, plan and run delivery, and land change into operations all with clear governance and crisp communication. What you’ll do Own end-to-end project delivery across design, build, test, go-live, and hypercare; execute to the agreed implementation plan and governance cadence. Lead cross-functional execution and governance (SteerCo/working groups), aligning project stakeholders; manage dependencies, scope, resources, and controlled change. Manage external partners and internal contributors to maintain velocity, quality, and structured knowledge transfer into BAU teams. Translate the endorsed design and business requirements into a prioritised delivery plan to protect timelines. Drive critical-path tracks: including configuration of workflows, logic re-architecture, data migration, downstream reporting changes, SIT/UAT, and regression. Proactively manage risks/issues (architecture gaps, capacity/skills constraints, requirement churn, data incompatibilities) with clear mitigations and timely escalations to SteerCo. Ensure test readiness and quality: define entry/exit criteria, execute system testing and UAT with SMEs, and drive defect triage to closure ahead of cutover. Coordinate enablement and go-live planning with stakeholder groups; deliver runbooks, communications, training assets, and a structured hypercare plan. Maintain executive-ready reporting on status, milestones, decisions, and approvals; ensure alignment to the business case and endorsed design. About you Proven track record leading high‑impact technology stack projects end‑to‑end, from inception to handover to BAU teams. Excellent planning, analysis, and with strong attention to detail and documentation. Confident influencing at Director/VP level; skilled in cross‑functional stakeholder management and ability to work flexibility to US time-zones. We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people Monthly ... (truncated, view full listing at source)