Senior Technical Project Manager
New
S
SmartLogicCustom software development
Fully remote contract position open to candidates based in the United States, Must be available during core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays.ContractSenior
Salary70 - 85 USD per hour
Apply NowOpens the employer's application page
Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software project management experience
- Required Skills
- JiraClient relationship management
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of professional software project management experience, preferably within a custom software development consultancy or agency.
- Demonstrate success managing six-figure software development projects with varying team sizes, technical complexity, and client requirements.
- Understand agile software development and have managed projects from discovery and planning through development, testing, and launch.
- Have experience managing multiple client engagements while remaining accountable for budgets, schedules, scope, and delivery quality.
- Be proficient with project management and collaboration tools such as ClickUp, Jira, and Harvest.
- Have experience developing roadmaps, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, managing backlogs, tracking budgets, and coordinating quality assurance.
- Demonstrate client-facing communication skills, including translating technical concepts, facilitating difficult conversations, managing expectations, and building trusted relationships.
- Have experience identifying risks, managing scope changes, resolving delivery challenges, and holding project teams accountable.
- Have practical experience using AI tools in productivity, documentation, communication, or project management workflows, and understand their limitations and the need to validate outputs.
- Be available during SmartLogic's core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays.
- Be available for approximately 10–25 hours per week, depending on project needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple client software development projects as the primary point of contact.
- Define project scope, requirements, priorities, deliverables, and timelines with clients, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
- Lead sprint planning, standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Maintain actionable backlogs, write user stories, and establish acceptance criteria with Staff Engineers and developers.
- Manage project budgets, timelines, resource allocations, and scope changes; identify risks and communicate mitigation strategies.
- Maintain project plans, requirements, roadmaps, status reports, and budget forecasts.
- Coordinate quality assurance, testing, and acceptance processes.
- Build client relationships through clear communication, problem-solving, and consistent delivery.
- Use AI tools for requirements documentation, meeting summaries, backlog refinement, reporting, and project analysis, with appropriate quality, accuracy, security, and human oversight.
- Improve project management practices, delivery processes, and operational efficiency.
View Full Description & ApplyYou'll be redirected to the employer's site
