Technical Project Manager
Full overlap with LATAM time zone
We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join our Product Development Organization. We drive cross-functional alignment, create process efficiencies, and deliver large-scale strategic initiatives in a rapidly growing Legal Technology space.
The ideal candidate will join a team of technical project and program managers who focus on driving business-critical initiatives across the product development organization. You will be a strong self-starter, enabling you to drill into business data and technical trade-offs to identify clear direction and focus for your tasks, projects, and programs. You know how to continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge. You will have experience working with multiple partners across an organization and are skilled at building and maintaining relationships. You’ll demonstrate a successful track record leading medium to large projects using agile methodologies. You’ll be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Drive end-to-end program planning and execution across multi-disciplinary teams
- Support strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely collaborating with product and engineering leads to develop program plans
- Partner with product and engineering to develop project milestones, track progress, handle cross-team dependencies, resource planning, mitigate risks, and run effective communications
- Proactively identify and remove impediments to drive momentum and progress. Identify communication gaps, lead issue resolution, and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities
- Work closely with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that requirements are translated into technology requirements, which subsequently drive the execution of software development from design through successful deployment and adoption.
- Collaborate to define the technical architecture of solutions for services and support technical implementation and integration efforts.
- Document project plans for cross-team initiatives and drive on-schedule delivery of results
- Contribute to the definition, development, and tracking of product and team metrics and operational improvements
- Drive consistent, high-quality project management practices by creating and maintaining a repository of templates and best practices
- Communicate project risks, progress, launches, and retrospectives across all stakeholders and teams – consistently and transparently
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in technical project management working directly with software engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience working at a technology company, preferably within a SaaS model
- 3+ years of experience leading software development projects with schedules and deadlines
- Direct experience using iterative or agile methodologies
- Proven track record of successful program delivery and handling complex initiatives across a variety of cross-functional teams
- Must have experience using project planning, road mapping, and issue tracking tools - JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, Roadmunk
- BS/BA degree required, preferably in computer science or a technical discipline
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scrum Master, Scaled Agilist, or PMP Certification
- Experience working cross-functionally with product management, design, engineering, marketing, customer suppor,t and operations
- Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Skilled at dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly growing and changing environment
- Ability to lead without authority to coordinate cross-functional teams towards value delivery
- Experience in a company that has scale or previous work in a large software development organization
The hiring process: - Introduction call
- Case study
- 2 round of Technical Interviews
- Locations
- South America
- Remote status
- Fully Remote

About Tight Line
Tight Line represents the perfect synergy of expertise and ambition. Born from the merger of Rapid River (est. 2013) and Cactus Code (est. 2016). Our mission is simple yet bold: to attract the brightest minds in software development and empower them with meaningful, cutting-edge projects for clients across the globe.