Software Development Project Manager Jobs in Naperville, IL

About RWS

RWS is a global leader in content, translation, and intellectual property services. With more than 60 years of experience, RWS helps the world’s top brands grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. The company combines proprietary technology with deep human expertise to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across industries such as life sciences, technology, finance, and legal.

About Propylon
 
Propylon is a company within the RWS group, focused on delivering innovative solutions that simplify complex legal workflows and connect people with the law. The Propylon team works to understand business challenges, design practical technical solutions, and solve problems while embracing change. The company has consistently been recognised as one of the “Great Places To Work” in Ireland (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024), reflecting a culture of learning, growth, and employee development.

Working at Propylon allows employees to combine the entrepreneurial, innovation-driven environment of a smaller company with the global scale, resources, and reach of RWS, contributing to RWS’s mission of unlocking understanding across languages and industries.

Job Purpose

Propylon’s Project Managers are responsible for defining, planning, and leading software project activity from initiation through to customer acceptance and successful handover to support operations.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual to work on multi-million-dollar, enterprise-level software implementations in a client-facing role.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, and budget – managing scope definition, changes, and priorities from initiation through to implementation
• Lead and motivate project teams across the full project lifecycle, including both on-site and distributed team members
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure effective execution of project deliverables
• Manage stakeholder communication and alignment across client and internal teams
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocations
• Produce and maintain all required project documentation and reporting artefacts
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues throughout the lifecycle
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders
• Present clear and accurate project status updates to stakeholders at all levels
• Support clients during production phases, including post-implementation activities where required
• Support the implementation of project delivery standards, reporting frameworks, and governance structures

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience in a software development project management role
• Experience delivering projects in a business-critical software or services environment
• Degree in IT, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Proven track record of delivering enterprise IT projects to defined scope, schedule, and budget
• Demonstrated ability to manage evolving project scope, priorities, and dependencies in dynamic environments
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across business and technical functions
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with client and senior stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels in a client-facing role
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and methodologies
• Solid business acumen with the ability to align technical delivery to business objectives
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Availability to travel as required
• Professional project management certification (e.g. PMI, PRINCE2)

Nice to Haves:

• Agile certifications (e.g. Professional Scrum Master, SAFe, or similar)
• Proficiency using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira or similar platforms
• Experience working within structured governance, reporting, and delivery frameworks
• Experience supporting change management initiatives and driving user adoption in enterprise environments

Personal Attributes:

• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Proactive and solution-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Collaborative mindset, with a willingness to share knowledge and contribute to team success
• Curious and continuously learning, with an interest in technology, delivery practices, and improving ways of working

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS. 

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.
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