Summit K12 is seeking a highly strategic, analytical, and systems-oriented Principal Project Manager to oversee the health, visibility, forecasting, governance, and operational management of the Product Development portfolio. This role serves as the central point of visibility across all active and planned initiatives within Product Development, ensuring leadership has a clear understanding of project health, resource utilization, delivery confidence, costs, dependencies, risks, and organizational capacity. The Principal Project Manager will design and maintain the frameworks, processes, reporting systems, and governance structures that enable effective portfolio management and informed decision-making.

Unlike traditional project management roles, the Principal Project Manager does not own the day-to-day execution of individual projects. Product Managers retain ownership of project planning, prioritization, execution, stakeholder communication, and delivery outcomes. Instead, this role operates at a portfolio level, monitoring organizational commitments, identifying emerging risks and bottlenecks, forecasting resource needs, and providing leadership with actionable insights across the entire Product Development organization.

Reporting directly to the SVP of Product Development, this individual will partner closely with Directors of Product, Product Managers, Engineering, QA, Content, Design, Compliance, and Executive Leadership to ensure strategic initiatives remain aligned, resourced, visible, and achievable. The ideal candidate is a highly organized systems thinker who can build scalable processes, leverage data to drive decision-making, and proactively identify challenges before they impact delivery. Portfolio Governance & Visibility Maintain comprehensive visibility across all active and planned initiatives within the Product Development portfolio.

Establish and manage portfolio governance frameworks from ideation through launch and post-release review. Develop and maintain standardized project intake, prioritization, planning, reporting, and review processes. Ensure project data is accurate, current, and consistently maintained across all portfolio management systems.

Create transparency across the organization regarding priorities, timelines, dependencies, and resource commitments. Monitor portfolio health and proactively identify initiatives requiring intervention, escalation, or executive decision-making. Resource Planning & Capacity Forecasting Develop and maintain resource planning and forecasting models across Product, Engineering, QA, Content, Design, and Compliance teams.

Analyze current and future capacity against planned work to identify potential bottlenecks and resource constraints. Provide recommendations regarding staffing needs, resource allocation, prioritization, and organizational trade-offs. Monitor utilization trends and ensure leadership has visibility into team capacity and workload distribution.

Partner with department leaders to support strategic planning and portfolio balancing decisions. Portfolio Analytics & Financial Oversight Establish frameworks for estimating, tracking, and reporting project and portfolio-level costs. Monitor investment levels across initiatives and provide visibility into resource expenditures.

Analyze portfolio performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize resource utilization. Support annual planning and budgeting efforts with portfolio forecasting and capacity analysis. Provide data-driven recommendations regarding project investments and organizational priorities.

Executive Reporting & Stakeholder Communication Develop executive dashboards and reporting systems that provide meaningful portfolio insights. Deliver monthly portfolio health reports to executive leadership and key stakeholders. Communicate portfolio status, risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, delivery confidence, and investment impacts.