Senior Project Manager - Audio Visual Integration

About Diversified:

Diversified is a global leader in audiovisual and media technology. We design and build innovative spaces and experiences for clients across industries such as corporate, entertainment, sports, retail, and government. Our team partners with organizations around the world to create environments that connect people through technology.

What to Expect:

At Diversified, you'll work on exciting and complex projects with opportunities to grow your career. We offer a collaborative and flexible work environment, competitive pay and benefits, and a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and innovation. If you're ready to grow, create, and make an impact, Diversified is the place to do it.

Create the Unforgettable. Deliver It at Scale.

At Diversified, the most complex environments require more than execution. They require leadership that can manage scale, navigate complexity, and consistently deliver results.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager (PM3) who can lead large, high-impact, multidisciplinary projects with confidence and precision. This role is responsible for delivering complex initiatives that require advanced coordination across multiple teams, stakeholders, and workstreams.

You will operate as a senior leader within our Technical Operations delivery model, driving execution across Engineering, Fabrication, Field Services, and Operations. You will ensure that every element of the project is aligned, risks are actively managed, and performance expectations are consistently met.

You will be responsible for establishing structure and discipline across your projects. This includes leading execution cadence, managing interdependencies, maintaining visibility into risks, and ensuring that teams are aligned and moving with purpose. You will also play a key role in mentoring Associate Project Managers and Project Managers, helping to elevate overall team performance.

Financial management is a critical component of this role. You will oversee budgets, forecasts, and margin performance, ensuring that projects are not only delivered successfully but delivered profitably. You will proactively identify risks and take action to protect both schedule and financial outcomes.

You will serve as a trusted leader for both clients and internal teams, operating with confidence, clarity, and accountability in high-pressure environments.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

What sets this role apart

You are trusted with larger, more complex projects where execution discipline, leadership, and decision-making directly impact outcomes. What we're looking for

• Demonstrated success delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects
• Strong financial and operational acumen
• Ability to lead across multiple teams and competing priorities
• Confident decision-making in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
• Leadership mindset with a commitment to developing others

At Diversified, we don't just execute projects. We deliver results that strengthen long-term client partnerships. If you are ready to lead at scale, we want to hear from you.

Complexity:

• Every project is different and every set of project stakeholders is different.
• The PM needs to negotiate a very complex set of variables between system design, site conditions and a widely varying set of expectations with multiple stakeholders. The skill of communicating both verbally and in writing to manage all these variables takes a very high level of awareness, emotional intelligence and people management skills.
• The PM is constantly managing the forces of change in every project environment. Balancing schedules, budgets, scope, quality and client satisfaction are a very complex set of variables.

Decision Making Authority:

• Takes full ownership of project.
• Acts as the single point of responsibility and accountability for the project.
• Ensures schedule performance, quality of solution delivered to client, and client
• satisfaction.
• Manages and reports on the project's financials, including ensuring budget performance and profitability.
• Ensures timely and correct billings to client.
• Demonstrates proactivity, responsiveness, and follow through.
• Communicates decision options to stakeholders and manages those decisions.
• Manages a complex array of decisions at every point of the project but is rarely the sole decision maker.

Physical Working Environment:

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that may be met by an employee.
• The employee may be exposed to construction site conditions on a regular basis.
• Employee will be responsible for their safety while on job sites and to comply with all safety regulations in place by the GC.
• Use of PPE is usually required on job sites.
• The employee can typically spend at least 40% of their time on their feet and be required to mobile around the construction site.
• The employee must have the ability to occasionally climb ladders, use stairs and lift and/or move materials up to 20 pounds in construction areas.
• The individual is regularly required to use keyboards, test equipment and controls required for SI installation projects.
• Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth vision.
• When not on construction sites, the employee will experience normal office conditions and be required to use office equipment such as computers, peripherals, etc.

Travel:

• Frequent travel by car and occasional airplane trips are required. Employee must possess a valid driver's license in their state of residence.
• Employee will be required to use their own vehicle and will be reimbursed for mileage at the current corporate rate. Local travel to job sites (within a 2 hour driving distance each way) will make up 70-90% usually but remote travel can be up to 30% of the job at times. 10% remote travel is required on a regular basis.

What You'll Bring:

Education & Certifications:

• Associates/Bachelors degree required and/or equivalent experience.
• A PMP certification from the Project Management Institute, preferred
• AVIXA CTS certification, preferred
• Other relevant certifications may be required or preferred based on the technology focus of the position.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a project manager in commercial construction trades or AV commercial settings is required.
• Deep knowledge and experience with audio/video systems. Knowledgeable of low voltage electrical projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Supervisory and people skills.
• The Project Manager shall have the ability and skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical, political and people-related problems.
• Great people leadership skills.
• Strong financial background in project cost accounting.

A project manager typically has these base skills.

• Has a high level of both written and verbal communication skills.
• Focused on clients and able to understand how they can use technology from Diversified to meet their business needs.
• Approachable; works well on teams. Is a natural leader.
• Delegates effectively.
• Good at setting and managing people's expectations.
• Personally organized, manages time well, and sets clear priorities. Sets an example for
• preparation, punctuality, and professional appearance.
• Excellent at planning.
• Forecasts and manages risks.
• Problem solver who can remain effective in tense situations.

What We Offer:

We believe great people deserve great benefits. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial wellbeing, and work-life balance:

• Multiple medical plan options to fit you and your family's needs
  
  
  
  • HSA & HRA company contributions
  
  
  
  
• Dental coverage, including orthodontic benefits, and vision plans
  Company-paid benefits
  
  
  
  • Basic Life, AD&D
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  
  
  
  
• Generous paid time off - 3 weeks PTO plus company holidays and floating holidays
• 401k with company match
• Paid maternity leave
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• A wide range of voluntary benefits including Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Pet Insurance, Homeowners and Auto Insurance, Supplemental Life and AD&D coverage, and Legal Services
• Commuter benefits
• And much more