Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location:

Remote

Duration:

12-month contract

Role Overview

We are seeking a

highly hands-on Senior Project Manager

to support multiple large-scale annuity initiatives planned for 2026\. This role is ideal for a

doer and executor

—someone who thrives in execution, tool optimization, and cross-functional delivery rather than high-level oversight alone.

This PM will play a critical role in helping support a RILA launch , supporting existing PMs, and driving communication across several projects and teams within Annuities.

Key Responsibilities

Jira Enablement \& Workflow Optimization

• Serve as the primary lead and expert for the Annuity PM organization, taking ownership of workflow configuration and optimization.
• Address current challenges related to

handoffs, visibility, and reporting

across teams.

• Design, build, and maintain

Jira dashboards

that present data in a clear, consumable format for PMs and leadership.

• Manipulate and structure Jira data to improve decision-making, progress tracking, and risk identification.
• Partner with internal IT Jira experts to understand data structures and workflows, while independently owning day-to-day Jira execution.
• Create efficiencies that allow other PMs to focus on organizational readiness and delivery.

PM Support \& Delivery Execution

• Provide execution support to PMs running multiple annuity initiatives, ensuring consistency across project tracking, reporting, and readiness activities.
• Standardize processes where possible to improve execution speed and quality across the portfolio.
• Act as a hands-on contributor rather than an advisory-only PM.

Annuity Go-To-Market \& Organizational Readiness

• Support go-to-market planning for annuity product initiatives, aligning

release timing, readiness, and promotional activities

.

• Partner with

Marketing, Distribution, Product, and Operations

to ensure end-to-end readiness for product launches.

• Assist in coordinating demos, communications, and launch enablement activities as needed.
• Help centralize and align organizational readiness efforts into a

holistic center of excellence

model.

• Ensure consistency across five concurrent, high-value annuity projects, aligning go-to-market activities to release dates.

Required Qualifications

• 7\+ years of project management experience, with senior-level ownership and execution responsibility.
• Expert-level Jira experience

, including workflow configuration, dashboard creation, and data manipulation.

• Proven ability to take over and independently manage Jira ownership in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong experience managing

handoffs, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination

.

• Experience supporting or leading

go-to-market initiatives

, ideally within insurance or financial services.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and learning specialized systems and data models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within

insurance or annuity products

.

• Background supporting multi-million-dollar programs or portfolios.
• Prior experience helping PM organizations mature tools, reporting, or readiness frameworks.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.