Project Manager

If you like planning and executing projects, managing resources and timelines, and communicating with stakeholders this role is for you.

A Project Manager plans, coordinates, and delivers projects on time and within budget. They manage resources, risks, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful project outcomes.

Skills you’ll need: Milestones (Project Management), Finance, Change Management, Project Planning, Agile Methodology, Subcontracting, Project Scoping, Project Implementation

$96,774 median salary375,439 jobs available¹

Project Manager

If you like planning and executing projects, managing resources and timelines, and communicating with stakeholders this role is for you.

A Project Manager plans, coordinates, and delivers projects on time and within budget. They manage resources, risks, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful project outcomes.

Skills you’ll need: Milestones (Project Management), Finance, Change Management, Project Planning, Agile Methodology, Subcontracting, Project Scoping, Project Implementation

$96,774 median salary375,439 jobs available¹

Recommended credentials

Career resources

  • A project manager is a professional who organizes, plans, and executes projects while working within restraints like budgets and schedules.

  • Many teams use project management software to organize their workflow. Platforms like Airtable, Trello, Asana, and Smartsheet could be a good fit for your team as a way to efficiently track, assign, and schedule various aspects of a project.

  • An information technology (IT) project manager is a professional that helps organizations achieve their IT goals by planning and executing projects. IT project managers might lead projects to introduce new software solutions, scale IT processes, or switch cloud providers for an organization.

  • Project management is a broad field with many niche specializations. Reading books on project management can be a good way to immerse yourself in the tools and processes of the industry.

Success stories

Cassia L.
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
"The course is very complete, detailed and didactic. It has a great amount of additional material which supports project implementation."
Kenefra
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
"Without the Google Career Certificate, I wouldn't be sitting here in my new role as a Project Manager. It gave me confidence in my own ability."
Adrienne
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
"As I worked through my Google Certificate, the possibilities of my future began unfolding in my mind, I begain to dream bigger, which put me on a journey that led me to Dell."
Lauren
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
"This program did what I was hoping for...reentry into the workforce and a new career."

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