Job Summary

The Project Manager for the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) initiative is responsible for planning and delivering an enterprise program to define, implement, and embed a consistent lifecycle for technology-enabled products. The role will coordinate Product, PMO, Architecture, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Security, Release Management, Change Enablement, Finance, and business stakeholders to establish clear lifecycle phases, decision rights, governance controls, deliverables, and measurable outcomes from ideation through retirement.

Job Summary

The Project Manager for the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) initiative is responsible for planning and delivering an enterprise program to define, implement, and embed a consistent lifecycle for technology-enabled products. The role will coordinate Product, PMO, Architecture, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Security, Release Management, Change Enablement, Finance, and business stakeholders to establish clear lifecycle phases, decision rights, governance controls, deliverables, and measurable outcomes from ideation through retirement. This role combines project delivery discipline with product operating-model transformation. The Project Manager will manage the integrated plan, facilitate cross-functional design decisions, drive adoption of the future-state lifecycle, and ensure that product work is traceable, governed, and ready to transition into sustained operations.

Responsibilities

Project Scope: Product Development Lifecycle Transformation

- Lead the end-to-end project to design, pilot, implement, and operationalize a standardized Product Development Lifecycle.
- Coordinate current-state assessment, gap analysis, future-state design, pilot execution,



rollout, and transition to ongoing process ownership.
- Align the PDLC with portfolio priorities, PMO delivery standards, product management practices, architecture governance, quality controls, change enablement, and release management.

Lifecycle Design & Governance

- Facilitate definition of lifecycle phases from idea intake and prioritization through business case, discovery, design, build, testing, launch, adoption, value realization, maintenance, and retirement.
- Define required artifacts, accountable owners, decision rights, stage gates, entry and exit criteria, approval paths, and exception processes.
- Ensure the lifecycle distinguishes product leadership, product ownership, project management, engineering, quality, architecture, security, release, change, and operational responsibilities.
- Establish a governance model that is scalable for different product types, delivery methods, risk profiles, and levels of complexity.

Project & Delivery Management

- Own the integrated project plan, milestones, workstreams, dependencies, critical path, and delivery commitments.
- Coordinate cross-functional contributors across U.S., LATAM, EMEA, GDC, and vendor teams as applicable.
- Run working sessions, decision forums, status reviews, and steering updates; document decisions and drive timely follow-through.




- Manage scope, schedule, resources, deliverables, and quality through the full project lifecycle.

Process, Tooling & Traceability

- Translate the future-state lifecycle into practical workflows, templates, checklists, playbooks, role guidance, and governance calendars.
- Partner with Azure DevOps and ServiceNow stakeholders to align intake, work-item hierarchy, required data, approvals, testing evidence, release readiness, and production-change records.
- Promote end-to-end traceability from business objective and product investment through requirements, delivery, testing, release, and realized outcomes.
- Define reporting and data-quality expectations that support portfolio visibility, auditability, and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Alignment & Change Adoption

- Build alignment among product leaders, product managers, product owners, project managers, architects, engineers, test teams, release teams, operations, and business sponsors.
- Identify stakeholder impacts and coordinate communications, training, office hours, pilot support, and adoption activities.
- Anticipate resistance, clarify role changes, and resolve ownership or process conflicts through structured decision-making and escalation.
- Partner with process owners to establish the sustainable operating model, ownership, support model, and continuous-improvement backlog.

Financial & Resource Management

- Manage the project budget, forecast, resource plan, burn rate, and delivery variance in accordance with PMO standards.
- Coordinate resource demand and capacity across workstreams, including internal teams, GDC resources, and third

📌 Project Manager Product Development Lifecycle (Bogotá)
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