Hybrid Project Manager, Retail Strategy – Scaling

at Simbe Robotics

• Job title: Project Manager, Retail Strategy – Scaling
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cincinnati, United States

About the role

• Project Manager supporting deployment and scaling of AI technologies in major retailers. Managing projects, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring cross-functional readiness for product launches.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management support for large-scale retail operational change programs, partnering closely with leadership to keep programs on track and aligned to scope.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, trackers, RAID logs, and status reports; proactively identify risks and dependencies and drive them to resolution.
• Coordinate with project managers and stakeholders on the retailer side (across both business and technology functions) to align on milestones, deliverables, and issue escalation.
• Support the launch of new product capabilities for clients, ensuring cross-functional readiness across strategy, product, engineering, and customer success teams at Simbe.
• Prepare materials for executive steering committees, working sessions, and joint business reviews.
• Provide project management and analytical support for ongoing pilots and engagements across Simbe's broader client portfolio, ensuring continuity and momentum across multiple accounts.
• Track pilot KPIs, synthesize results, and help develop business cases and expansion proposals.
• Serve as a day-to-day point of contact for select client stakeholders, escalating strategic issues as appropriate.
• Partner across Simbe's strategy, product, engineering, operations, and commercial teams to align internal execution with client commitments.
• Translate client needs and feedback into clear internal asks; translate internal updates and constraints into clear client communications.
• Help establish and maintain repeatable processes, templates, and best practices that scale as Simbe's retail programs grow.
• Contribute to the development of joint business plans, capability roadmaps, and value realization frameworks across client accounts.
• Conduct research and analysis on retail industry trends, client priorities, and use case opportunities to inform account strategy.
• Help quantify and communicate the ROI and business impact of Simbe's solutions to client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years’ experience in management consulting, corporate strategy and operations, or a similar rigorous environment.
• Exceptional analytical and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a track record of owning trackers, plans, and follow-ups independently.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex business challenges and contribute to practical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both client stakeholders and internal cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated fluency with modern AI tools and a bias toward using them to work smarter, faster, and at higher quality, including applying them to program management workflows.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities can shift quickly.
• Equally comfortable in the weeds of project execution and at the whiteboard shaping account strategy.
• Ability to travel periodically to client sites, estimated at 20–30% of the time, with the potential to flex higher during key periods.
• Prior experience working with or within retail or grocery organizations.
• Experience supporting senior executives or client-facing engagements.
• Exposure to digital transformation projects, particularly within established retail operations.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Asana) and BI/reporting tools.
• Demonstrated experience designing AI agentic systems, including configuring agents, building prompt chains, or integrating AI tools with everyday work applications to automate meaningful work.

Benefits

• Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.