Technical Project Manager

• Develop detailed project roadmaps, timelines, Gantt charts, and milestone plans that reflect dependencies and resource availability.
• Continuously assess risk and develop mitigation plans to avoid scope creep and delays.
• Identify gaps that require more formal processes, and current processes that could be improved, and improve both, seeking feedback to optimize as we go.
• Work closely with your Democracy League PM counterpart to ensure project scope and timelines align with current resource availability, and flag anticipated future conflicts and resource needs.
• Facilitate and document collaborative discovery sessions with stakeholders, users, and technical teams to elicit, define, and document requirements.
• Identify gaps and ask the right questions to uncover implicit needs and constraints.
• Work closely with the QA Lead to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and align with quality standards.
• Translate complex concepts into clear deliverables with well-defined scope and rationale.
• Work closely with executive stakeholders, designers, and engineers to capture and coordinate execution of features that align with organizational goals and user needs.
• Lead regular stakeholder meetings and asynchronous conversations to align on goals, scope, timelines, and evolving requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for project communication, actively managing expectations and ensuring clarity within the team.
• Provide consistent and transparent updates through status reports, dashboards, and visual project artifacts (e.g., Gantt charts, progress trackers, demonstrations).
• Drive accountability and momentum by following up with owners, escalating blockers, and adapting plans as needed.
• Ensure all team members understand the definition of success and how it will be measured.