Senior Technical Project Manager
Allocate · Palo Alto, CA · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteInformation Technology$155k–$170k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Be Doing
- Accelerate delivery
- Drive rapid feedback loops between prototyping, client input, and production — compressing weeks into days
- Keep multiple parallel workstreams moving without creating bottlenecks or bureaucracy
- Identify what's blocking a maker and remove it — same day
- Keep leadership and key stakeholders informed with signal, not noise: what shipped, what's at risk, what needs a decision
- Act as a force multiplier for the team
- Create clarity and momentum in ambiguous environments
- Identify and surface risks and cross-team dependencies before they become problems
- Protect the team’s focus so builders can build
- Help the team prioritize the work that matters most right now
- Eliminate coordination overhead wherever possible
- Treat process as a product — continuously improving it as the team evolves
- Use AI tools (Cursor, v0, Claude, etc.) to prototype, draft specs, generate briefs, and unblock the team
- Contribute directly to delivery rather than only coordinating others
- Continuously experiment with new AI tooling and share what works across the team
- Identify where AI can eliminate manual coordination overhead and implement it
- Help scale the organization
- Evolve tools and workflows as the team grows
- Build lightweight systems that improve alignment without slowing teams down
- Ensure distributed teams communicate effectively across time zones
What You Bring
- Experience shipping real products in fast-moving startup environments; early-stage startup experience strongly preferred
- A maker mindset — you would rather prototype a solution than write a slide deck about it
- Strong familiarity with modern AI tooling and curiosity about how it changes how teams build software
- You are comfortable using AI tools in your daily workflow to improve productivity and coordination
- Strong judgment about when to move fast and when to slow down — and the credibility to call it either way
- The ability to hold context across business, product, design, and engineering without requiring rigid handoff processes
- Excellent communication skills — async-first, direct, and oriented toward decisions rather than status updates
- Comfort operating in ambiguity; you create structure rather than waiting for it
- High ownership and accountability — when something is stuck, you make it move
- Experience working with distributed teams