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Professional Services Manager

Chicago, IL💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead planning, execution, and delivery of long-running, grant-funded software solution development projects for external research institutions.

Role type

Senior individual contributor and team leader (Professional Services Manager)

Builds

Custom software solutions and cyberinfrastructure for data-intensive research

Domain

Academic research, non-profit, and federal agency-funded scientific computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Project management, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, budget management, cross-institutional collaboration, technical architecture review, sprint planning, requirement translation

Preferred skills

Managing distributed teams, facilitating technical discussions, enterprise application rollout coordination

Technologies

Globus platform, distributed computation systems, high-volume data management systems

Responsibilities

Define project scope, deliverables, and milestones; develop and maintain project plans, work breakdown structures, and risk mitigation plans; monitor progress and initiate corrective actions; act as primary liaison with partner institutions, principal investigators, and funding agency program officers; facilitate team meetings and working groups; prepare and deliver project updates to technical and non-technical audiences; coordinate complex IT changes and enterprise-level application rollouts; collaborate with software developers to translate research requirements into actionable plans.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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