Technical Project Manager

Are you an experienced project manager with a gift for communicating across technical teams?

What you will be doing:

As a Technical Project Manager at PassiveLogic, you will directly support engineering teams through the life cycle of product development—design, roadmap, manufacturing, launch, and customer experience. You will work cross-functionally with multiple teams daily, including product, engineering, design, marketing, sales, and operations. You will drive the execution of product mission, vision, and strategy that aligns to business and technical strategy. Your phenomenal communication and organization skills will be used to ensure the release timeline is managed through development, holding engineering teams accountable. You will track and report on KPIs to ensure that projects get over the finish line in a timely manner by defining, prioritizing, measuring, and delivering outcomes, including inter-team dependencies. 

Responsibilities: 

• Support product design, engineering, and operations through a data-driven, problem-solving process in collaboration with engineering program management
• Facilitate deep technical conversations with the teams that are building solutions
• Act with curiosity and empathy for the teams you support
• Communicate plans, progress, performance, and roadblocks to stakeholders, producing project artifacts that enable sound decision-making
• Excel in holding teams accountable to the "big picture," ensuring they follow a strategic course of action that leads to accomplishing team goals
• Serve as scrum master, helping teams plan and manage sprints to fulfill roadmap milestones
• Assist engineers in writing and tracking user stories, including definition of “done" and behavior-driven test plans

About PassiveLogic

PassiveLogic is disrupting the world of automation with the first generalized platform for autonomy. Our first application for autonomy is buildings—the largest and most complex controlled infrastructure in the economy. Our culture is built on mobilizing the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives—backed by the world’s leading investors—to work together to build the future we envision.

PassiveLogic’s infinitely configurable platform enables users to design their own custom autonomous systems. We've reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to replace legacy control logic with real-time control decisions at the edge, reducing the world’s carbon footprint, while paving the way for the future of smart cities. We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on real-world solutions to some of the toughest problems.

You must have:

• 3+ years of technical project management experience with software teams
• College education
• Experience managing a project using frameworks like Agile, SAFe, or Waterfall, as well as a principled approach for deciding when to apply the right methodology
• Experience and mastery of project management tools like ClickUp, Jira, or similar
• Experience working with Gantt and roadmap tools in an engineering context
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams and communicating on a technical level
• Experience building KPI dashboards for engineering teams and leadership on engineering progress
• Strong communication, leadership, decision-making, and collaboration skills
• A proactive, self-starter attitude

You should have:

• Business analyst experience and the ability to wield a spreadsheet for insights into performance, capacity, etc.
• Ability to present complex topics to diverse audiences (both verbal and documentation-creation presentation skills)
• Ability to influence and motivate teams

It’s helpful to have:

• Ability to ask probing and insightful questions that empower the team to effectively navigate challenges and arrive at optimal solutions
• Experience in bringing products through the development process from inception to launch

Compensation, Perks, & Benefits for the Technical Project Manager role:

• Competitive compensation
• Equity share
• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, FSA, HSA, Disability, and Term Life Insurance
• Flex PTO
• Parental leave
• Well-stocked break room and catered lunch Monday through Friday
• Free ski passes (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
• Free National Park passes
• We push our performance personally as well as professionally, and we do respect flexible hours around well-earned powder days

To apply for this position please send:

• A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic 
• A resume
• Extra mile — include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative

We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we’ve described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven’t considered. If that’s you, please apply.

Diversity and inclusion 

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all — come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.

Unsolicited resumes sent to PassiveLogic, including unsolicited resumes sent to PassiveLogic business mailing address, fax machine, email address, or directly to PassiveLogic employees, will be considered PassiveLogic property. PassiveLogic will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.