Senior Project Manager - Consultant

About this role

Who We Are
Liberum exists to deliver in the environments where most firms struggle. Our clients are public sector agencies navigating enterprise-scale transformations in politically complex, high-stakes environments where the margin for error is thin, and the consequences of failure are public.  We believe clients deserve real ownership, not warm bodies and hope.
We’re a team first. We are not a loose collection of consultants sharing a logo, but a genuine team that pushes each other’s thinking, pressure-tests each other’s work, and shows up when engagements get hard. The people we hire make the entire team better, not just their own deliverables.
We’re also building an AI-forward consulting practice. Our project managers don’t manage projects the way they did five years ago. They use AI to see around corners, move faster, and deliver sharper analysis than consultants who are still doing everything manually. If your toolkit hasn’t evolved to include AI as a core capability, you’re already behind the standard at Liberum.
If you’re looking for a comfortable seat and a steady paycheck, this isn’t the role. If you want to be part of a team that does hard things extraordinarily well, staying on the leading edge of how that work gets done, keep reading.

The Role
This is a senior project management position for someone who doesn’t just manage projects. They own them. You will serve as the driving force behind complex, multi-workstream engagements for Washington State agencies, and you’ll be expected to flex beyond traditional PM boundaries when the engagement demands it. The right candidate isn’t precious about their role definition; they do what needs doing to ensure delivery.
You bring deep public sector experience, ERP implementation knowledge, and a technical background that lets you go toe-to-toe with system integrators and technical teams, not just manage the schedule while others make the real decisions. Your planning rigor is genuine: resource-loaded schedules, dependency mapping, and the discipline to keep plans current and actionable. You know the difference between a project plan that drives execution and one that exists to satisfy a governance checkbox.
You are an AI-enabled project manager. You use AI tools to analyze project data and surface risks before they escalate. You generate executive-ready status reports and briefings in a fraction of the time it takes traditional PMs. You use AI to synthesize complex information from multiple workstreams into clear decision frameworks. You automate the repetitive reporting and documentation work that consumes most PMs’ time, freeing yourself to focus on the strategic and political work that actually determines whether a project succeeds or fails. AI isn’t a nice-to-have in your toolkit. It’s how you operate at a level that would otherwise be impossible.
You operate with an ownership mentality. You drive work forward, take responsibility for outcomes beyond your immediate scope, and build clarity when things are ambiguous or off-track, without waiting for direction. You’re comfortable delivering hard truths to executive stakeholders with data and a solution already in hand. When a project starts going sideways, you’re the person who names it, frames it, and leads the recovery, not the person who waits for someone else to notice.
As a Liberum team member, you collaborate fully, communicate proactively, and never operate in isolation. You see the big picture while owning your piece of it. You make the people and engagements around you better.

What You’ll Do
Project Delivery & Governance
Lead end-to-end project management for complex, multi-workstream engagements including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issue management
Develop, maintain, and execute detailed MS Project plans with dependencies, resource loading, and elaborated tasks; apply hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches appropriate to the engagement context
Drive clarity and alignment when project conditions are ambiguous, off-track, or politically complex, including developing recovery plans and realignment strategies
Facilitate project status reporting, executive briefings, and governance checkpoints
Deliver status updates and executive reporting in visually compelling formats that tell the right story for the right audience
Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams before they become fire drills
AI-Enabled Project Leadership
Use AI tools to analyze project data across workstreams, identifying schedule risks, resource conflicts, dependency chains, and early-warning patterns that inform proactive decision-making
Use AI to rapidly produce executive-ready deliverables: status reports, risk assessments, decision briefs, and governance presentations at a quality and speed that traditional approaches can’t match
Apply AI to synthesize information from multiple sources: meeting notes, vendor updates, technical documentation, stakeholder feedback, into clear, consolidated views that drive alignment
Use AI to automate repetitive PM work: status aggregation, action item tracking, schedule variance analysis, and reporting workflows, freeing capacity for the strategic and political work that determines project outcomes
Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools that improve project delivery, and share innovations with the Liberum team to raise the collective capability
Technical Engagement & Integration
Support configuration, testing, and validation activities including UAT planning and execution. You understand the technical work well enough to spot problems, not just track timelines
Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery across all workstreams
Engage with system integrators and technical teams as a credible counterpart who understands the substance of what’s being built, not just the project mechanics
Stakeholder & Relationship Management
Manage relationships with…