Engagement / Project Manager | Wilkes & Liberty

The role

Wilkes & Liberty delivers Drupal CMS, Next.js frontend, and platform engineering work for federal, state/local government, and commercial clients. You will be accountable for engagement outcomes landing on scope, on schedule, and within the client's operating constraints — not for the multi-client product roadmap, which sits with product management.

What you will own

The engagement plan: scope boundaries, milestones, dependency tracking, and change control.
Acceptance and handoff: trace deliverables to acceptance criteria, capture client decisions as they are made, and close engagements with usable records and transferred ownership.
Coordination of the delivery team, including engineering, QA, technical writing, security, and compliance, against the plan.
Client-facing status reporting and escalation, so the client hears about a risk before they have to ask.
Scope, schedule, and cost consequences surfaced to the accountable Wilkes & Liberty lead before they become commitments. This role does not carry unilateral contract authority.
Discovery and requirements gathering directly on lean engagements, standing in for a separate Assessment Lead when the work does not warrant one.
The engagement decision, risk, dependency, and acceptance record, so engineers and client stakeholders can act without reconstructing context.

What you bring

Experience running client-facing technical engagements from scope through delivery and handoff.
Comfort managing multiple concurrent workstreams and external dependencies.
Clear communication with both technical delivery staff and non-technical client stakeholders.
Judgment to escalate scope or schedule risk early rather than absorb it silently.

Helpful experience

Federal or state/local engagement models, including task orders, subcontract delivery, and prime/sub relationships.
Drupal or Next.js delivery environments, or comparable CMS/web platform engagements.

Equal opportunity and accommodations. Wilkes & Liberty considers qualified candidates without regard to protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.

The role

What you will own

The engagement plan: scope boundaries, milestones, dependency tracking, and change control.
Acceptance and handoff: trace deliverables to acceptance criteria, capture client decisions as they are made, and close engagements with usable records and transferred ownership.
Coordination of the delivery team, including engineering, QA, technical writing, security, and compliance, against the plan.
Client-facing status reporting and escalation, so the client hears about a risk before they have to ask.
Scope, schedule, and cost consequences surfaced to the accountable Wilkes & Liberty lead before they become commitments. This role does not carry unilateral contract authority.
Discovery and requirements gathering directly on lean engagements, standing in for a separate Assessment Lead when the work does not warrant one.
The engagement decision, risk, dependency, and acceptance record, so engineers and client stakeholders can act without reconstructing context.

What you bring

Experience running client-facing technical engagements from scope through delivery and handoff.
Comfort managing multiple concurrent workstreams and external dependencies.
Clear communication with both technical delivery staff and non-technical client stakeholders.
Judgment to escalate scope or schedule risk early rather than absorb it silently.

Helpful experience

Federal or state/local engagement models, including task orders, subcontract delivery, and prime/sub relationships.
Drupal or Next.js delivery environments, or comparable CMS/web platform engagements.