Job Information
TEKsystems Project Manager - Internal Operations in Chicago, Illinois
One North is a digital experience agency that combines curiosity, scale, and agility to shape the future. As part of TEKsystems, a leading provider of business and technology services, we offer boutique solutions to solve complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams of strategists, designers, and technologists excel in research and discovery, experience strategy, design, experience management, and technology implementation. Whether clients are establishing a vision for an experience or optimizing an existing one, we help businesses understand their audiences, design experiences, maximize technology, and bring their digital ideas to life. The world’s most successful companies rely on us to forge the future through electrifying work that sparks innovation and drives results.
Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) Talent Acquisition Team requires:
Position Overview
The Project Manager – Internal Operations is responsible for owning, managing, and executing the day-to-day activities for One North & TGS’ internal projects. These activities may include managing the day-to-day aspects of a project, planning and executing future projects, and ensuring internal team satisfaction and forward progress of strategic internal initiatives. This position will work with all levels of the business and will ensure internal projects are managed with the same rigor and drive that our client projects receive.
The Project Manager – Internal Operations partners with the team to ensure that One North’s internal projects meet all requirements, proceed steadily and in accordance with target completion dates, and are of the highest quality, while also being flexible enough to allow practitioners to perform urgent client work. This individual must lead from experience in structuring multiple engagements with parallel work streams spanning digital strategy, brand development, brand strategy, creative, design, user experience, and web development that ladders up to stakeholder satisfaction.
This role will ideally be based in the Chicago area, but we are open to remote locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Responsibilities
• Act as the primary day-to-day project contact for stakeholders and internal teams.
• Conduct scoping and estimating collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team to allow for accurate cost budgeting and timeline expectations for internal projects.
• Independently manage and report weekly on active project costs, resource needs, and progress towards completion.
• Work with resourcing team to ensure assigned resources are used appropriately and that all needed resource allocations are captured in the resource management system and forecasted appropriately.
• Manage cross-functional work streams across multiple projects and stakeholders, from upstream design and strategy work through to build and implementation.
• Ensure the use of best practices and apply lessons learned from previous engagements (both internal and client-facing).
• Help produce project lifecycle documentation, including project schedules, status reports, and all other documentation defining individual project requirements.
• Monitor the quality of all aspects of all projects: scope, risk, schedule, budget, delivery, and all associated stakeholder communication.
• Contribute to and help manage internal process improvement initiatives, especially those involving tools and knowledge management standardization and solutions. Collaborate with the organization to develop guidelines and processes that advance the agency’s Project Management discipline.
• Proactively identify issues and risks; know when to escalate issues and when to work through them on your own.
• Pursue opportunities to both lead by example and foster the talents of high-performing team members.
Skills and Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience required
• 5 or more years of professional project management experience
• Experience creating project schedules, managing project budgets, and project reporting
• Ability to communicate effectively across junior and senior leadership/stakeholders
• Experience in a client services organization or digital agency leading projects across multiple disciplines
• Self-starter, ability to work independently and with confidence
• Solid track record of successfully developing multi-faceted projects from start to finish, on time, and managing to a budget
• Experience resourcing team members across project lifecycle
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to demonstrate client empathy, while balancing the needs of our business and our team
• Detail-oriented with strong planning and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in conjunction with workflow steps, internal processes, and senior -leadership presentations
• Effective negotiation and conflict management/risk mitigation skills
• Experience in project estimation
• Accountability and flexibility, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Experience or exposure to delivery of technology implementation projects
• Experience working with both waterfall and agile methodology
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Chicago, IL.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $105000.00 - $150000.00/yr.
We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan or program terms. Our benefit plans include the following: · Medical, dental & vision · 401(k)/Roth · Insurance (Basic/Supplemental Life & AD&D) · Short and long-term disability · Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA) · Transportation benefits · Employee Assistance Program · Tuition Assistance · Time Off/Leave (PTO, Paid Family Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 23, 2026.
h4>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.