Technical Project Manager | FTE | Los Angeles, CA | Hybrid

The Role:

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.