Project Manager for Software

PassiveLogic

$95K — $115K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years managing software projects, programs, or product delivery
  • Technical background with a BS/MS in computer science or related field
  • Experience with various project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)
  • Exceptional communication skills for translating technical and business goals
  • Proficiency in organizing project roadmaps and managing deliverables
  • Collaborative mindset to work with multiple cross-functional teams
  • Adaptability in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

  • Clear blockers and resolve dependencies for software teams
  • Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and delivery roadmaps
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize user experience in development
  • Assist in translating designs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Communicate plans, progress, risks, and roadblocks to stakeholders
  • Introduce improvements to enhance software delivery processes
  • Support teams with visibility for informed decision-making

Benefits

  • Generous equity share package
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance options
  • Flex PTO
  • Team-building events
  • Free catered lunch Monday - Friday
  • Free ski pass at local ski resort
  • Free National Park pass
Full Job Description
Do you enjoy turning complex software initiatives into clear, executable plans? Help teams deliver reliable products that advance the world's first autonomous buildings.

About the Role

This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.

As a Software Project Manager at PassiveLogic, you will guide cross-functional teams through the software delivery lifecycle. You will maintain delivery plans, coordinate dependencies, manage risks, and balance long-term platform goals with near-term releases.

What you'll do

Help software teams move forward when complexity slows progress: Use your technical fluency and project leadership to clear blockers, resolve dependencies, and keep teams focused on valuable, reliable releases. Approach problem-solving with a bias for action and data-driven decision-making, even when conditions are imperfect.

Lead software planning and execution: Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and delivery roadmaps. Guide cross-functional teams through structured workstreams, clarify ownership, and keep stakeholders accountable to scope, schedule, quality, and business outcomes.

Drive delivery with a focus on exceptional user experience: Partner with product, design, and engineering to translate customer needs into sequenced work while balancing user experience, technical constraints, quality, and timely delivery.

Support design and validate readiness: Help product, design, engineering, and quality teams turn approved designs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and release plans. Verify that delivered software aligns with the intended experience.

Give teams the visibility they need to make good decisions: Clearly communicate plans, progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and roadblocks. Produce concise reporting that supports timely decisions and keeps stakeholders aligned.

Improve delivery with modern tools and practices: Evaluate software delivery trends and introduce practical improvements that help teams plan and release more effectively.

What you'll bring

If your experience does not meet all our posted requirements below, we'd still love to hear from you. We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. If that's you, please apply!

We value curiosity as much as experience. We look for people who enjoy learning, challenge conventional thinking, and take pride in continuously improving their craft.

You must have
Proven experience:
• 5+ years of experience managing software projects, programs, or product delivery.
• A technical background, including a BS/MS or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field
• Experience using project management methods and understanding when to apply each approach (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or waterfall)
Exceptional Communication Skills: You translate business and technical goals into clear plans, decisions, and next steps. You communicate risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs with precision, adapting the level of detail for engineering teams, partners, and leadership.
Organized and strategic: Skilled in creating project roadmaps, managing timelines, and ensuring deliverables meet both technical and user expectations.
Collaborative mindset: Work closely with UI/UX, front end, back end, sales, and customer success teams to define work streams that align with customer releases. You will work hand in glove with the project managers to ensure the work plan supports the technical road map.
Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate.
Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, rolling-up.

You should have
Experience shipping software: Demonstrated ability to deliver reliable software releases in a complex, cross-functional environment.
Strong software project management skills: Proven expertise aligning scope, schedules, resources, risks, and delivery with business goals.
Documentation and user stories experience: Skilled at creating clear project documentation, actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases that support successful execution.
Leadership abilities and aspirations: You build trust, create accountability, and help teams succeed by sharing context, resolving blockers, and improving how work gets done. You are eager to grow as a software delivery leader and champion.
Commitment to continual self-investment in software delivery: A track record of staying current with emerging practices, tools, and technologies in software development and project management.
Alignment with leadership: Ability to keep leaders aligned on product vision, priorities, risks, and delivery goals throughout the development process.
Passion for software quality and sustainability: Strong interest in building dependable, human-centered software while considering maintainability, efficiency, and long-term impact.

It's helpful to have
Technical knowledge: Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD, quality assurance, release management, and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, or GitHub.
• Ability to explain the strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs of software tools and technical approaches to audiences with varied experience
• Experience with:
• Managing Agile or hybrid software delivery
• Tracking dependencies, risks, budgets, and release readiness
• Using delivery metrics and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.

We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we've described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven't considered. PassiveLogic can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities to the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background. Even if you don't meet all the requirements above, we still want to hear from you.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:
• Competitive compensation
• Generous equity share package
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Disability and life Insurance options
• Flex PTO
• Team-building events
• Free catered lunch in the office Monday - Friday
• Free ski pass (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
• Free National Park pass

When applying, include:
• A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic
• A resume
• Extra mile - include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative

Department Project & Product Management Role Project Management Locations Salt Lake City

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