Best Jobs For Former Senior Project Managers [2023]

It’s tough to be a senior project manager nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a senior project manager isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become senior project managers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many senior project managers no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former senior project managers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Project Manager	8.74%
2	Program Manager	4.79%
3	Information Technology Project Manager	2.94%
4	Consultant	1.74%
5	Senior Manager	1.48%
6	Vice President	1.13%
7	Director	0.85%
8	Senior Consultant	0.83%
9	Principal	0.74%
10	Manager	0.71%
11	Technical Project Manager	0.69%
12	Operations Manager	0.67%
13	Management Consultant	0.63%
14	Construction Manager	0.63%
15	Director Of Project Management	0.6%
16	Product Manager	0.58%
17	Owner	0.56%
18	Senior Product Manager	0.54%
19	Principal Consultant	0.53%
20	Program Director	0.53%
21	Director Program Management	0.5%
22	President	0.49%
23	Operations Director	0.48%
24	Program/project Manager	0.45%
25	Business Developer	0.41%
26	Business Analyst	0.41%
27	Managing Director	0.41%
28	Project Analyst	0.39%
29	Manager And Consultant	0.37%
30	Information Technology Manager	0.37%
31	Project Director	0.37%
32	Account Manager	0.36%
33	Consultant/project Manager	0.35%
34	Senior Technical Program Manager	0.35%
35	Senior Business Analyst	0.34%
36	General Manager	0.33%
37	Project Manager/scrum Master	0.31%
38	Engineering Manager	0.31%
39	Delivery Manager	0.3%
40	Information Technology Consultant	0.29%
41	Program Management Consultant	0.28%
42	Senior Director	0.28%
43	Director Of Information	0.28%
44	Senior Information Technology Manager	0.26%
45	Manager, Project Management	0.26%
46	Senior Management Consultant	0.26%
47	Portfolio Manager	0.25%
48	Scrum Master	0.25%
49	Associate Director	0.25%
50	Marketing Manager	0.25%
51	Project Leader	0.24%
52	Information Technology Director	0.24%
53	President/owner	0.23%
54	Chief Executive Officer	0.23%
55	Business Development Manager	0.23%
56	Chief Operating Officer	0.23%
57	Senior Vice President	0.23%
58	Chief Information Officer	0.21%
59	Director Of Construction	0.21%
60	Solutions Architect	0.2%
61	Project Engineer	0.2%
62	Service Delivery Manager	0.2%
63	Executive Director	0.19%
64	Director Project Management Office	0.19%
65	President Of Operations	0.18%
66	Service Manager	0.18%
67	Manager, Project Management Office	0.18%
68	Team Leader	0.18%
69	Project Consultant	0.18%
70	Engineering Program Manager	0.18%
71	Marketing Director	0.18%
72	Business Analyst-Consultant	0.17%
73	Engineering Director	0.17%
74	Senior Account Manager	0.17%
75	Pmo Manager	0.17%
76	Owner/operator	0.17%
77	Adjunct Professor	0.16%
78	Agile Coach	0.16%
79	President/chief Executive Officer	0.15%
80	Business Consultant	0.15%
81	Development Manager	0.15%
82	Engagement Manager	0.15%
83	Data Analyst	0.15%
84	Global Program Manager	0.15%
85	Senior Engineer	0.15%
86	Quality Assurance	0.15%
87	Project Executive	0.15%
88	Account Director	0.14%
89	Contractor/consultant	0.14%
90	Vice President Of Information Technology	0.14%
91	Chief Technology Officer	0.14%
92	Senior Infrastructure Project Manager	0.14%
93	Senior Systems Engineer	0.14%
94	Managing Partner	0.14%
95	Vice President And Manager	0.14%
96	Senior Software Engineer	0.14%
97	Purchasing Manager	0.14%
98	Technical Manager	0.14%
99	Vice President Of Programming	0.14%
100	Account Executive	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a senior project manager would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former senior project managers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed senior project manager under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a senior project manager, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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