Project Manager

Project Manager
Location: Culver City, CA (Hybrid)
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 6 months
Pay: $72/hr-$76.10/hr DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Project Manager to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-months contract, working a hybrid schedule out of Culver City, CA.
Project Manager | Qualifications:

• Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs or projects in a large organization, including work with evolving requirements and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear recommendations, project plans, and delivered outcomes.
• Strong judgment and critical thinking, with the confidence to probe assumptions, clarify ownership, and recommend changes to scope or approach.
• Experience coordinating vendors or consultants, reviewing deliverables, and managing stakeholder feedback and approval processes.
• Strong program management and operational skills, including managing dependencies, risks, budgets, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and automation to improve project execution, reporting, analysis, or operational workflows, with appropriate review for accuracy and confidentiality.
• Experience building reusable processes and configuring project management or operational systems that improve visibility and reduce manual effort.
• Strong written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to summarize progress, frame decisions, and influence follow-through without direct authority.
• Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting executive-sponsored initiatives, business planning cycles, or leadership operating rhythms.
• Experience building and administering Airtable databases, interfaces, dashboards, and automations.
• Experience improving internal operations or establishing new program management practices.
• Experience partnering with change management teams on organizational or operating model initiatives
• Experience working at Apple or within a global technology organization.

Project Manager | Responsibilities:

• Partner with Growth Operations and leaders to clarify requests, define intended outcomes, and recommend scope, ownership, and delivery approaches.
• Turn ambiguous asks into practical project briefs and plans, identifying deliverables, owners, milestones, dependencies, and decisions needed.
• Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping through delivery, coordinating partners, resolving execution issues, and escalating decisions that require leadership direction.
• Translate approved recommendations into actionable workstreams, establish accountable owners, and drive follow-through on agreed commitments.
• Maintain a consolidated view of active and upcoming initiatives, providing visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, and decisions needed.
• Identify recurring initiative types and develop practical playbooks, scoping templates, and review processes that clarify how this work is supported.
• Build and maintain a centralized vendor library capturing capabilities, costs, past engagements, deliverables, outcomes, and lessons learned.
• Use approved AI tools and automation to simplify project execution and capture reusable knowledge; apply lessons from completed projects to anticipate needs and improve future delivery.