Project Manager

What you'll do

Own Project Planning & Delivery

• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and milestones for engineering initiatives
• Coordinate execution across multiple teams and working groups
• Track progress, manage dependencies, and identify risks or blockers early
• Drive follow-through to ensure projects stay on track

Partner with Product & Engineering

• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand priorities and objectives
• Work with Engineering Managers and team leads to define execution plans and timelines
• Facilitate alignment when priorities, scope, or timelines shift

Enable Team Execution

• Facilitate planning sessions, check-ins, and retrospectives to support delivery
• Help teams break down work into clear phases and milestones
• Reduce friction, confusion, and unnecessary coordination overhead

Improve Delivery Visibility

• Provide clear, concise updates to stakeholders
• Maintain dashboards, documentation, and project artifacts
• Ensure shared understanding of timelines, tradeoffs, and dependencies

Strengthen Delivery Practices

• Identify recurring delivery challenges and recommend improvements
• Help standardize planning and tracking practices across teams
• Introduce structure that supports teams without slowing them down

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 3–5 years of experience managing or coordinating software delivery in a technical environment
• Proven experience working closely with engineering teams (ideally backend systems, APIs, or platform products)
• Experience owning project plans, timelines, milestones, and dependencies
• Hands-on experience partnering with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to translate priorities into actionable plans
• Experience facilitating planning and delivery conversations (e.g., sprint planning, milestone reviews, retrospectives)
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery clarity, predictability, and team coordination

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive compensation, $100k - $130k
• 100% paid health, dental, and basic life insurance premiums (including family coverage)
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous PTO that increases with tenure
• 401(k) with company matching
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Drinks, snacks, team lunches, and activities
• In-office chiropractic services

To apply:

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• For more information about the company, please visit us at www.smarty.com.

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