Kslaw
Program Manager
Atlanta, Georgia · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
Project ManagementAgileProcess ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCritical Thinking
About the role
- King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services.
- We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape.
- This role operates at the intersection of delivery discipline and strategic advisory - managing complexity and ambiguity while enforcing accountability and governance across every phase of the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Lead assigned initiatives from formal intake through project closure, ensuring alignment with firm priorities and governance expectations.
- Partner with sponsors and functional leaders to define project goals, success measures, scope boundaries, assumptions, and high-level risks prior to execution.
- Lead cross-functional teams delivering initiatives that may include business process change, software implementations or upgrades, technology deployment, vendor engagement, or organizational transformation.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, risks, budget, and change impacts.
- Maintain accurate, current project data to support portfolio-level visibility and leadership decision-making.
- Identify, monitor, and manage project risks, interdependencies, and constraints across business and technology teams.
- Lead scope, timeline, and budget changes in alignment with PMO governance expectations, ensuring impacts are assessed, documented, approved, and communicated.
- Influence, negotiate, and build alignment across teams and functions to drive decisions and keep initiatives on track.
- Serve as a strategic partner and advisor to the business, ensuring initiatives align with firm growth objectives and governance frameworks.
- Collaborate to ensure requirements, outcomes, and success measures are clearly defined and validated.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, or equivalent business experience required.
- Minimum of 5 years of project management experience delivering cross-functional initiatives in a structured governance environment.
- Experience managing both business-led and technology-enabled projects.
- Comfortable with Agile methodologies with the ability to adapt approach based on the needs of a particular project.
- Experience operating within portfolio review, executive reporting, and decision-making cadences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate across teams, functions, and seniority levels without direct authority.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools
- experience with platforms such as MS Project or equivalent required.
- Proven ability to partner effectively with senior leaders, sponsors, and C-suite stakeholders.
- Strategic, analytical, and systems thinker who connects project execution to business outcomes.
- Thrives in ambiguity - able to bring structure and accountability to complex, fast-moving environments while exercising sound independent judgment.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to craft and deliver executive-level messaging that is clear, concise, and decision-oriented.
- Proactive risk management orientation - surfaces issues early, brings options, and drives toward resolution.
- Intellectually curious, with the critical thinking to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and keep initiatives aligned and on track.
Nice to have
- PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred.
- Background in a law firm, professional services firm, or similarly complex global organization preferred.
Compensation
- The firm offers a generous total compensation package with bonuses and raises awarded in recognition of individual merit-based performance.
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