MongoDB Professional Services acts as the delivery owner for complex customer initiatives, translating strategic goals into measurable outcomes across modernization, migration, and AI-related programs. We drive accountability through strong governance, proactive risk management, and alignment with customer priorities.
About the Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you will serve as the accountable delivery lead for complex, customer-facing Professional Services engagements. You will translate customer objectives into clear delivery strategies, balancing customer outcomes with Professional Services business discipline (efficiency, utilization, and health).
We’re looking for candidates who are comfortable working remotely in the US and are able to support either east or west coast customers and internal stakeholders.
You will partner consultatively with stakeholders to shape priorities, manage tradeoffs, and ensure delivery remains focused on high-value outcomes. This role requires an operator who can navigate technically complex environments, lead executive-level governance, and integrate AI-related discovery into the engagement strategy to drive efficiency and value. What you will do:
End-to-End Delivery: Lead engagements from kickoff through closeout, maintaining continuity and ensuring delivery aligns with customer priorities and business outcomes
Governance & Operations: Establish rigorous delivery governance, including project planning, milestone tracking, RAID management, and status reporting
Consultative Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor, helping customers clarify objectives, make informed tradeoff decisions, and connect technical execution to strategic business value
Stakeholder Management: Drive alignment and influence outcomes across cross-functional teams (Consulting, Sales, Customer Success) and customer stakeholders, even without direct authority
Commercial & Delivery Health: Balance customer outcomes with sound business management, including financial discipline, resource utilization, and engagement risk mitigation
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AI Integration: Identify opportunities where AI consultation adds value, leveraging technical subject matter experts to drive efficiency and unlock outcomes
Continuous Improvement: Contribute to organizational delivery standards and mentor team members to improve consistency and predictability
What you bring:
Experience: 8+ years leading complex, customer-facing projects or programs in SaaS, Consulting, or Professional Services
Execution & Governance: Strong command of project delivery fundamentals (scope, schedule, risk, dependencies) and delivery tools (e.g., Jira, Smartsheet)
Communication & Influence: Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and maintain an executive presence with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Business Acumen: Deep understanding of Professional Services economics, engagement health, and linking delivery to long-term customer growth
AI Fluency: A practical understanding of enterprise AI transformation; ability to identify AI use cases and facilitate relevant expert engagement
Adaptability: Proficiency in both Agile and structured delivery models, with the judgment to operate effectively in ambiguous environments
Preferred qualifications:
Experience leading high-visibility database, cloud, or software modernization initiatives
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Req ID: 2273481019
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$90,000—$176,000 USD
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