Coordinate cross-functional software initiatives through Avetta’s AI-augmented delivery pipeline, managing handoffs, quality gates, dependencies, metrics, and stakeholder updates while ensuring humans retain decision ownership.
Project Manager
📜 Description
- Own projects from planning through completion, maintaining plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.
- Identify and mitigate risks and cross-team dependencies, with clear owners, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
- Coordinate Product, Engineering, and other teams to align deliverables and resolve dependencies.
- Track project health, scope, timelines, decisions, and changes; provide concise updates to leadership.
- Facilitate stakeholder syncs, drive timely decisions, and remove blockers for product and engineering teams.
- Use AI and automation to streamline workflows and reduce administrative overhead.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in technical Project Management within SaaS or technology companies..
- Complex Deliverables: Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional tech and data projects with multiple dependencies
- Technical Fluency: Comfortable working with Engineering and Product teams and understanding technical concepts such as APIs, integrations, data flows, architecture dependencies, and software delivery processes at a project-management level.
- Planning Through Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or loosely defined initiatives and turn them into structured execution plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
- Communication & Collaboration : Ability to synthesize complex project information into concise, actionable updates for Directors and senior leadership, including clearly communicating risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed.
- AI & Automation Mindset: Active user of AI tools and automation strategies to optimize day-to-day project workflows.
- Project Management Tools: Experience using modern project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Google Workspace or equivalent platforms.
- Certifications (Bonus): PMP certification is desired, but not mandatory.
✨ Benefits
- Parental leave
- Diversity and inclusion working groups
- Flexible working practices
- Paid volunteer time off
Full job description
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Product Organization. Reporting to a Product Program Manager, this role will be responsible for driving the successful execution of complex, cross-functional technical initiatives, with a particular focus on data-centric projects spanning multiple product segments, including SCA, Repository, Platform, and Data.
You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to turn complex and sometimes ambiguous initiatives into clear, actionable project plans. You will establish ownership and accountability, proactively identify risks and dependencies, facilitate timely decisions, remove blockers, and ensure stakeholders have consistent visibility into project health and progress.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving SaaS environment, is comfortable navigating technical complexity and ambiguity, and uses AI and automation to make project execution more efficient and scalable.
What You’ll Do
Project Execution & Ownership: Own assigned projects from planning through completion. Build and maintain detailed project plans across multiple concurrent, complex tech/SaaS initiatives, ensuring milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and deliverables remain on track.
Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify, track, and mitigate project risks and cross-team dependencies. Establish clear owners, mitigation plans, and escalation paths to prevent delivery delays.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate across multiple segments and teams—including Engineering Directors, Product Managers, Tech Leads, Marketing, CS, and Support—to align deliverables and resolve cross-segment dependencies.
Project Health & Reporting: Maintain clear visibility into project milestones, status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and changes to scope or timelines. Provide concise and actionable updates to Product and Engineering leadership.
Obstacle Removal & Stakeholder Touchpoints: Host regular syncs, manage ongoing communications, and proactively step in to clear blockers for engineering and product teams.
Decision & Escalation Management: Drive timely resolution of cross-functional decisions by identifying decision owners, documenting outcomes, and escalating unresolved issues when necessary.
Process Automation & Efficiency: Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline workflows, eliminate manual administrative overhead, and optimize operational
What You Bring
Experience: 5+ years of experience in technical Project Management within SaaS or technology companies..
Complex Deliverables: Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional tech and data projects with multiple dependencies
Technical Fluency: Comfortable working with Engineering and Product teams and understanding technical concepts such as APIs, integrations, data flows, architecture dependencies, and software delivery processes at a project-management level.
Planning Through Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or loosely defined initiatives and turn them into structured execution plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
Communication & Collaboration : Ability to synthesize complex project information into concise, actionable updates for Directors and senior leadership, including clearly communicating risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed.
AI & Automation Mindset: Active user of AI tools and automation strategies to optimize day-to-day project workflows.
Project Management Tools: Experience using modern project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Google Workspace or equivalent platforms.
Location: Must be comfortable working effectively in a distributed, remote environment.
Certifications (Bonus): PMP certification is desired, but not mandatory.
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