Solutions & Consulting
Engagement / Project Manager
Own scope, schedule, risk, and delivery control for Wilkes & Liberty client engagements. the accountable lead keeping federal, state/local, and commercial delivery on track.
- Location
- United States — remote
- Work schedule
- Full-time
- Engagement
- Contract (1099)
- Appointment term
- Ongoing
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- Solutions & Consulting
- Remote policy
- Remote
- Hiring status
- Open
- Applications close
- October 31, 2026
- Eligible work jurisdictions
- United States
- Work eligibility
- Authorized to work in the U.S.; no sponsorship available
- Clearance requirement
- Must be eligible to obtain
- Clearance level
- No clearance required
- Expected travel
- 0%
- Veteran friendly
- Yes
The role
Keep client engagements moving from agreed scope to accepted delivery. You will coordinate the plan, dependencies and decisions for content, software and platform work within the client's operating constraints. Product management owns the shared product roadmap.
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.