Project Manager Location: Culver City, CA (Hybrid) Schedule: 40 hours Duration: 6 months Pay: $72/hr-$76.10/hr DOE The Planet Group is looking for a Project Manager to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-months contract, working a hybrid schedule out of Culver City, CA. Project Manager | Qualifications: • Experience managing complex, cross-functional programs or projects in a large organization, including work with evolving requirements and senior stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear recommendations, project plans, and delivered outcomes. • Strong judgment and critical thinking, with the confidence to probe assumptions, clarify ownership, and recommend changes to scope or approach. • Experience coordinating vendors or consultants, reviewing deliverables, and managing stakeholder feedback and approval processes. • Strong program management and operational skills, including managing dependencies, risks, budgets, and multiple concurrent workstreams. • Demonstrated experience using AI tools and automation to improve project execution, reporting, analysis, or operational workflows, with appropriate review for accuracy and confidentiality. • Experience building reusable processes and configuring project management or operational systems that improve visibility and reduce manual effort. • Strong written communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to summarize progress, frame decisions, and influence follow-through without direct authority. • Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience supporting executive-sponsored initiatives, business planning cycles, or leadership operating rhythms. • Experience building and administering Airtable databases, interfaces, dashboards, and automations. • Experience improving internal operations or establishing new program management practices. • Experience partnering with change management teams on organizational or operating model initiatives • Experience working at Apple or within a global technology organization. Project Manager | Responsibilities: • Partner with Growth Operations and leaders to clarify requests, define intended outcomes, and recommend scope, ownership, and delivery approaches. • Turn ambiguous asks into practical project briefs and plans, identifying deliverables, owners, milestones, dependencies, and decisions needed. • Manage cross-functional initiatives from scoping through delivery, coordinating partners, resolving execution issues, and escalating decisions that require leadership direction. • Translate approved recommendations into actionable workstreams, establish accountable owners, and drive follow-through on agreed commitments. • Maintain a consolidated view of active and upcoming initiatives, providing visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, and decisions needed. • Identify recurring initiative types and develop practical playbooks, scoping templates, and review processes that clarify how this work is supported. • Build and maintain a centralized vendor library capturing capabilities, costs, past engagements, deliverables, outcomes, and lessons learned. • Use approved AI tools and automation to simplify project execution and capture reusable knowledge; apply lessons from completed projects to anticipate needs and improve future delivery.