Technical Project Manager | FTE | Los Angeles, CA | Hybrid
We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager for a project-based assignment to drive the successful delivery of complex technology projects through rigorous governance and structured execution. The ideal candidate brings 4+ years of hands-on project management experience, focused on formal project management methodologies, cross-functional leadership, and establishing clear accountability. You will establish and maintain the delivery framework for projects, ensuring alignment, transparency, and excellence at every stage.
Key Responsibilities:
Own the project from start to finish. Define scope, success metrics, and the plan with the client. Stay with it through delivery, launch, handoff, and lessons learned.
Understand why the client is building it. Learn their business well enough to challenge the request, suggest a simpler way to get the same outcome, and explain trade-offs in terms of business impact.
Build trust on both sides. Become the person the client’s sponsor relies on, and earn credibility with engineers who don’t report to you.
Get ahead of problems. Spot risks early, bring options and a recommendation, and make sure decisions get made and written down.
Do what the project needs. Write requirements, run user acceptance testing (UAT), clean up a data issue, sit in on a support call. If the project needs it and you can do it, you do it.
Run governance that’s worth attending. Steering committees and status reports that are short, honest, and end in decisions.
Run more than one project at a time without any of them losing focus.
Required Skills:
4+ years managing technology projects, including at least [2] years with external clients (consulting, agency, or a client-facing delivery role)
Owned at least two projects from kickoff to launch, including scope, plan, budget, and the sponsor relationship. You were there at the start and you were there at go-live.
Enough technical fluency to follow an engineering discussion, push back on an estimate, and know when something is harder than it looks
Hands-on Agile delivery experience, plus Jira and Confluence
Experience defining and reporting on KPIs that leadership actually uses to make decisions
Clear, direct communication with executives and engineers alike
Nice to Have:
PMP, CSM, or similar certification
Nice to have:
PMP, CSM or other relevant certifications
Experience working in consulting, digital agency, or fast-moving startup environments
What this role is not:
Running ceremonies and updating boards for a single internal team
Status reporting without accountability for the outcome
Handing off anything that falls outside “PM work”
Compensation
Salary $100k-125k (DOE) + Benefits
Location:
This is an onsite role requiring 3 days per week between Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) and Los Angeles.
*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time