Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cordance accelerates the growth of vertically focused B2B SaaS companies through acquisition and long-term operational and financial guidance. The Technical Project Manager will lead planning and execution of complex, cross-functional technology initiatives, coordinating teams, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring predictable delivery of measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution for strategic technology projects, including platform consolidation, Secure Retail-to-Solutions migration, database modernization, unified reporting, reliability improvements, integrations, and AI-enabled initiatives
- Translate approved business priorities and product roadmaps into clear project charters, workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, delivery forecasts, and measurable acceptance criteria
- Establish and maintain integrated project plans across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Data, Quality, Infrastructure, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and external partners
- Facilitate project kickoffs, planning sessions, weekly execution reviews, risk and dependency reviews, decision forums, retrospectives, and executive status updates
- Track scope, schedule, capacity, budget, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and changes; drive timely resolution and escalate with context, options, impact, and a recommendation
- Create transparent reporting for planned-versus-delivered work, milestone health, delivery confidence, resource constraints, quality, release readiness, and business outcomes
- Coordinate release and migration readiness across technical and customer-facing teams, including validation, cutover, rollback, communications, training, support preparedness, and post-launch stabilization
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to maintain clear priorities, healthy backlogs, realistic commitments, and alignment between customer needs, architecture requirements, and delivery capacity
- Improve the technology delivery operating model, including standards for project intake, prioritization, status reporting, dependency management, RAID logs, decision records, and lessons learned
- Administer and improve project-management workflows in tools such as Asana, Jira, or similar platforms while keeping reporting useful and avoiding unnecessary process overhead
- Manage vendor and contractor deliverables when assigned, including statements of work, milestones, invoices, risks, performance, and expected return on investment
- Build trusted relationships across teams, resolve ambiguity, and ensure stakeholders understand decisions, owners, next steps, and delivery tradeoffs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of experience managing technology projects or programs, including complex initiatives spanning multiple engineering and business teams
- Demonstrated success delivering SaaS software, platform, data, cloud, integration, infrastructure, or migration projects through the full lifecycle
- Strong working knowledge of Agile and hybrid delivery approaches, software development lifecycles, release management, and production-readiness practices
- Experience building integrated project plans and managing scope, schedule, dependencies, resources, risks, budgets, vendors, and organizational change
- Proficiency with project and work-management tools such as Asana, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar platforms
- Ability to define meaningful delivery metrics and communicate status, risks, decisions, and forecasts to both technical teams and senior executives
- Excellent facilitation, organization, written communication, stakeholder management, and conflict-resolution skills
- Experience managing technology integration or consolidation following acquisitions or across a multi-product SaaS portfolio
- Experience leading customer migrations, cloud modernization, database migrations, data-platform implementations, or enterprise reporting initiatives
- Familiarity with retail, point-of-sale, inventory, e-commerce, donation, or thrift/resale software environments
- Experience coordinating distributed teams, contractors, vendors, and stakeholders across time zones
- Experience using dashboards and engineering metrics for capacity, flow, predictability, quality, reliability, and planned-versus-delivered analysis
- Working knowledge of information security, data privacy, business continuity, and operational readiness
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, SAFe, or comparable project/program-management certification is a plus
- Experience coordinating AI or data-intensive initiatives is a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage begins on the first day of employment.
- 401K Plan (US): 1:1 match for the first 3% of contributions and 0.5:1 match for the next 2%; contribute 5% of your salary and receive a 4% match. Pre-tax and Roth options are available. Eligible the first of the month after 90 days and immediately vested.
- RRSP (CAN): 1:1 match for the first 3% of contributions and 0.5:1 match for the next 2%; contribute 5% of your salary and receive a 4% match. Pre-tax and Roth options are available. Eligible the first of the month after 90 days and immediately vested.
- Flexible PTO: uncapped paid time off.
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for all employees.
- Remote employees receive a monthly stipend of $75 USD / $140 CAD for phone and internet.
- Generous holiday schedule.
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