Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values which are Customer-Centric, Accountable, Innovative, Collaborative, and Action-Oriented. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around 1400 Spherions around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Role Overview

This is an exciting time to join Sphera as we scale our product and technology organization, strengthen our operating model, and lead the next phase of engineering productivity and AI-enabled delivery. This role will help shape how Sphera grows: by improving execution clarity, enabling cross-functional leadership, and driving measurable outcomes across a complex and high-impact product portfolio.

The Project Manager will support and lead cross-functional programs across Product, Engineering,

Architecture, QA, DevOps, Security, IT, Customer Success, and Go-To-Market teams. This role will provide day-to-day program coordination, status tracking, risk and dependency management,



and clear communication for initiatives that require cross-team alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Program Leadership

- Plan, execute, and track projects across multiple teams, workstreams, or product areas.
- Build project plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and timelines.
- Coordinate alignment across Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, IT, Customer Success, and GTM.
- Keep projects focused on scope, schedule, budget, and quality commitments.
- Facilitate project meetings, stand-ups, and status reviews to keep teams on track.

Executive Visibility and Governance

- Prepare clear project status updates, RAID logs, and milestone tracking reports.
- Support leadership check-ins, sprint reviews, and project retrospectives.
- Summarize project details into concise updates, risks, and recommended next steps.

Risk, Dependency, and Decision Management

- Identify and track project risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
- Escalate issues in a timely manner with context and suggested options.
- Ensure action items and decisions are documented, assigned, and followed up on.

Operating Model and Process Improvement

- Follow and help refine Sphera's project management standards and best practices.
- Recommend improvements to templates, status reporting, and team workflows.
- Help distinguish between work needing formal tracking versus routine team delivery.

Metrics and Delivery Insights





- Maintain accurate project data in tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Track delivery metrics such as milestone progress, velocity, and task completion.
- Provide input to leadership on staffing needs, timeline risks, and project health.

Change Management

- Support planning and execution of change management activities for project rollouts, including stakeholder communication and training plans.
- Assess change impact on teams and processes, and help develop mitigation and adoption plans.
- Partner with stakeholders to prepare teams for current tools, processes, or ways of working resulting from project delivery.
- Track adoption and gather feedback post-implementation to ensure changes are sustained.

Required Experience

- 3+ years of experience in project management, program coordination, or a related delivery role.
- Experience supporting cross-functional software, SaaS, or technology projects.
- Working understanding of product development, SDLC, and release processes.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across a matrixed organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including status updates and meeting summaries.
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, SharePoint, Confluence, or similar platforms.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and adapting to shifting timelines.

Preferred Experience

- Experience in PE-backed, acquisition-heavy, or transformation-oriented environments.
- Exposure to change management practices and organizational adoption efforts.
- Familiarity with delivery metrics, sprint reporting, and project health dashboards.
- CAPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, or similar certification preferred but not required.

📌 Agile Project Manager (Bengaluru)
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