Job Description

Technical Project Manager

Location: Local Hybrid

Department: Project Management

Reports To: Program or Department Leadership

Overview

We are hiring a Technical Project Manager (Technical PM) with a background in software development who has transitioned into project management. This individual will act as a bridge between clients, project managers, and developers, ensuring requirements are clear, solutions are well-documented, and delivery remains on track. The Technical PM will bring professional maturity and process discipline that helps raise the overall effectiveness of the PM department. They will partner with other PMs to strengthen documentation, improve communication between teams, and build stronger client-facing deliverables such as feature briefs.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business or client needs into clear feature briefs and technical requirements.
• Write or oversee creation of detailed tickets and supporting documentation for development teams.
• Ensure that requirements are fully scoped, technically sound, and aligned with organizational standards.
• Collaborate with PMs to strengthen workflows, backlog management, and sprint readiness.
• Provide cross-team alignment, ensuring engineering, design, and product goals move together.
• Anticipate risks, surface dependencies, and help resolve issues proactively before they escalate.
• Act as a higher-level accountability partner ensuring client expectations and technical execution stay connected.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Project Manager or Software Engineer turned PM.
• Strong grasp of software development lifecycles and ability to write or review technical tickets.
• Skilled in converting client needs into structured deliverables (feature briefs, requirement docs).
• Strong organizational and documentation skills, with high attention to detail.
• Familiarity with tools such as Google Docs, GitHub, Figma, Task Management.
• Excellent communication skills able to bridge business language and engineering detail.
• Have built or overseen several projects from concept to completion.

What Makes a Strong Technical PM

• Systems Thinker: Sees how requirements, code, and business goals connect, and plans accordingly.
• Process Driver: Elevates the PM function through better documentation, structure, and workflows.
• Translator Role: Ensures developers get precise tickets and clients get clear communication.
• Proactive Problem Solver: Spots risks and inefficiencies early, prevents bottlenecks.
• High Accountability: Brings reliability to project delivery without needing constant oversight.
• Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects.

Nice to Have

• Background in solution engineering, QA, or technical consulting.
• Knowledge of cloud, modern frameworks, or enterprise platforms.

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