IT Project Manager

HireTalent is a staffing and recruiting firm seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to support a critical vendor engagement within the Commercial Underwriting organization. This role will coordinate between external vendors, internal development teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead coordination across external vendors, internal engineering teams, business stakeholders, and leadership teams
• Drive project execution, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple workstreams
• Facilitate project meetings, status reporting, risk reviews, and stakeholder communications
• Manage vendor deliverables to ensure alignment with business, technical, quality, and security expectations
• Track and mitigate project risks, issues, blockers, and escalations
• Maintain project documentation, action items, decisions, and knowledge-sharing processes
• Support Agile delivery activities including sprint coordination, SDLC tracking, and Jira management
• Identify operational gaps across teams and proactively drive resolution to support continuous delivery
• Collaborate effectively in a fully remote, distributed team environment

Requirements:

• 5+ years of IT Project Management experience within enterprise environments
• Proven experience managing vendor or third-party integration projects
• Strong background leading cross-functional and distributed teams
• Experience working within Agile and SDLC environments
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices related to project delivery and integrations
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently while driving collaboration across teams
• PMP or related project management certification
• Experience within insurance, underwriting, or financial services environments
• Familiarity with AI concepts or AI-enabled business/technology initiatives