Project Manager

About Sentinel Blue: Sentinel Blue is a values-driven Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) committed to safeguarding our clients within the defense industrial base and broader government contracting community. Founded on trust and a relentless pursuit of excellence, our mission is to deliver scalable, comprehensive cybersecurity solutions that empower our partners to achieve long-term sustainability, regulatory compliance, and business success. 

Position Overview: We are seeking a proactive, process-oriented, and client-focused Project Manager / Senior Project Manager to join our collaborative team. This individual will play a critical role in driving successful client onboarding, managing internal and client-facing projects, and improving the systems, processes, and tools that support scalable project delivery across Sentinel Blue. 

This is a growth-oriented role for someone who enjoys identifying inefficiencies, designing practical solutions, and executing improvements that create measurable impact. The ideal candidate has strong project management experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to balance tactical project execution with strategic process improvement. 

A key part of this role will involve building efficiency within Sentinel Blue’s project management platform, including the development of project templates, workflows, forecasting practices, resourcing processes, and capacity planning capabilities. The successful candidate will help Sentinel Blue mature its project management function while ensuring clients experience organized, thoughtful, and effective onboarding and project delivery. 

This is a full-time position that is fully remote. 

This position may require access to technology, technical data, or information that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment in this position is contingent upon either verification of U.S. person status as defined under applicable export control regulations, which includes U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain protected individuals such as refugees and asylees, or the ability to obtain any required export authorization. The company reserves the right not to apply for an export license and to decline to proceed with any applicant on that basis. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to citizenship status, national origin, or immigration status. 

Responsibilities: 

• Serve as a project lead for internal and client-facing initiatives, with a strong emphasis on client onboarding and service implementation. 

• Manage project timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications from kickoff through completion. 

• Act as a client-facing point of contact during onboarding and project delivery, ensuring clients understand expectations, timelines, responsibilities, and next steps. 

• Build, refine, and maintain project templates within our project management platform to support repeatable delivery across common project types. 

• Improve project management workflows, documentation standards, intake processes, and project governance practices. 

• Identify inefficiencies in current project delivery processes and design practical, scalable solutions to address them. 

• Develop and improve processes for resourcing, forecasting, workload visibility, and capacity planning across project teams. 

• Partner with technical and operational leaders to align project schedules with team availability, skill sets, priorities, and business needs. 

• Track project health, risks, blockers, budget considerations, and resource constraints, escalating issues when appropriate. 

• Create clear reporting and visibility for leadership around project status, upcoming demand, team capacity, and delivery risks. 

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure project tasks are assigned, understood, tracked, and completed on time. 

• Support continuous improvement of Sentinel Blue’s project management function, including standards, tools, metrics, and best practices. 

• Help ensure a positive client experience by maintaining organized communication, proactive follow-up, and clear accountability throughout each project. 

• Translate operational feedback into actionable improvements for project delivery, onboarding, and internal processes. 

Requirements: 

• U.S. citizenship. 

• 3-7+ years of project management experience, preferably in an MSP, MSSP, cybersecurity, IT services, professional services, or technology environment. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, stakeholders, and timelines simultaneously. 

• Experience building or improving project management processes, workflows, templates, or operational standards. 

• Strong understanding of project planning, resource coordination, risk management, status reporting, and stakeholder communication. 

• Ability to identify inefficiencies, recommend solutions, and execute process improvements from concept through implementation. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. 

• Comfort working in a fast-paced, remote, collaborative environment. 

• Ability to balance client-facing responsibilities with internal process improvement initiatives. 

• Proactive problem-solving mindset with a focus on accountability, follow-through, and continuous improvement. 

Desired Qualifications: 

• PMP certification strongly preferred. 

• Experience using a project management platform, portfolio management, resource planning, or professional services automation tools. 

• Experience working in an MSP, MSSP, cybersecurity, IT consulting, or managed services environment. 

• Experience with client onboarding, implementation projects, or service transition projects. 

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, cybersecurity operations, compliance frameworks, or government contracting environments. 

• Experience creating project dashboards, executive reporting, capacity planning models, or resource forecasting processes. 

• Experience working with technical teams, engineers, consultants, or security professionals. 

• Comfort translating complex technical or operational requirements into clear project plans and actionable tasks. 

Benefits: 

• Fully paid individual healthcare, vision, and dental insurance for the employee. 

• Paid certification and training opportunities. 

• Three weeks of paid vacation + 10 paid holidays. 

• A supportive environment with a focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance. 

• Retirement benefit, 401(k), with company match. 

• Opportunity to help build and mature the project management function within a growing cybersecurity organization. 

Equal Opportunity Statement: Sentinel Blue is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a collaborative, inclusive, and values-driven team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship status, immigration status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.