Technical Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Pakistan.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including ticket preparation, development, QA, release, and post-release validation.

• Transform product priorities into actionable delivery plans, defining milestones, responsible parties, and timelines.

• Decompose epics into manageable phases and oversee dependencies across teams.

• Proactively identify and escalate delivery risks to prevent missed deadlines.

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and delivery evaluations.

• Monitor velocity, throughput, burn-down rates, and various delivery metrics.

• Ensure tickets, boards, ownership, and workflows are well-organized and precise.

• Foster collaboration among Engineering, QA, Design, and Product teams.

• Enhance processes related to definition-of-done, QA handoff, branching, deployment, and release-readiness.

• Manage the release calendar and orchestrate deployment activities.

• Oversee release readiness, making go/no-go decisions, preparing for rollbacks, handling hotfixes, urgent production releases, and conducting post-release verification.

• Ensure the completion of release notes and documentation.

• Coordinate cross-functional handoffs and address dependencies.

• Collaborate with Product Managers on scope, sequencing, trade-offs, estimates, and timelines.

• Provide leadership with updates on delivery status, risks, timelines, blockers, and significant delivery metrics.

• Quickly escalate any off-track work while maintaining visibility on releases and priorities.

• Enhance the development process as the organization grows.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3 to 6 years of experience managing the delivery of SaaS products in an agile setting.

• Solid understanding of the SDLC and the lifecycle of modern web applications—how they are built, tested, deployed, and maintained.

• Practical experience in release management, covering environments, versioning, CI/CD coordination, hotfixes, and production releases.

• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams, including Engineering, QA, Design, and Product.

• Sufficient technical knowledge to engage in architecture discussions, comprehend PR summaries, challenge estimates, and pinpoint delivery risks.

• Strong proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Linear, or comparable platforms.

• Comfortable overseeing workflows, ticket quality, boards, and delivery processes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills—providing clear updates, running focused meetings, and ensuring clarity around ownership.

• Startup mindset: hands-on, decisive, adaptable, and adept at establishing structure where it is lacking.

• Prior experience as a developer or QA engineer.

• Familiarity with AWS-based infrastructure and deployment processes.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and contemporary deployment workflows.

• Certification as a Scrum Master, PMP, SAFe, or similar.

• Experience with SOC 2 or compliance-driven software change management.

• Must reside in Pakistan.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.

• Flexible work schedule.

• Fitness and healthcare allowance.

• Competitive salary package.

• Performance-based bonus structure.

• Opportunities for long-term growth as the Product and Engineering organization expands.

• Direct collaboration with founding and product teams.