Technical Project Manager

What You'll Do

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to oversee and execute engineering initiatives within our organization under the direct guidance of engineering leadership (Chief Technology Officer, Chief Engineering Officer). This role is focused on execution, coordination, and process management, ensuring that decisions made by engineering leadership are properly implemented. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background in software development and AI technologies, exceptional organizational skills, and a proven track record in managing complex engineering projects from conception through completion. This role reports directly to engineering leadership and plays a key role in ensuring engineering projects and tasks are properly planned, prioritized, and executed efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Execution: Implement and track the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple concurrent engineering projects, ensuring adherence to technical requirements, architecture guidelines, timelines, budgets, and quality standards as directed by engineering leadership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Support, and other teams to gather and consolidate incoming requirements, ensuring alignment between engineering priorities and business needs.
• Technical Requirement Gathering & Organization: Ingest and organize all incoming engineering tasks from Slack, Customer Success requests, direct input from Engineering Leadership, Sales, and Support teams, ensuring structured prioritization and execution.
• Engineering Task Management: Compile and transform cross-functional requests into well-defined engineering tasks, oversee their assignment, and completion, and track progress to ensure timely execution, following guidance from engineering leadership.
• Project Timelines and Technical Presentations: Develop detailed technical project timelines internally and for customers, track milestones, and create presentations for internal stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Agile Process Management: Lead weekly sprint planning, scrums, standups, and retrospectives, ensuring engineering teams follow best practices and continuously improve efficiency under the direction of engineering leadership.
• Engineering Process Optimization: Support the implementation of software development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and system integration processes to enhance efficiency, scalability, and performance, executing best practices as guided by engineering C-suite.
• Decision Execution & Team Coordination: Execute decisions made by engineering leadership regarding team assignments, capacity planning, workload distribution, and engineering team capabilities, ensuring smooth execution without micromanagement.
• Technical Risk Management: Identify potential risks in architecture, system dependencies, and technical scalability, report them to engineering leadership, and execute mitigation strategies as directed.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate project status, technical challenges, and outcomes to engineering leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment with business and product objectives.
• Engineering Leadership Support: Work closely with the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineering Officer to provide technical insights, project metrics, and roadmaps, ensuring that priorities are executed as determined by leadership.

Qualifications:

• Educational Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years in technical project management, preferably within AI, cloud computing, or healthcare technology sectors.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of AI technologies, cloud platforms, architecture, APIs, and software development life cycles (SDLC).
• Agile & DevOps Knowledge: Deep hands-on experience with Agile methodologies.
• Execution-Oriented Mindset: Ability to follow engineering leadership directives to coordinate and support engineering teams, ensuring priorities are executed efficiently and on time.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, with experience presenting technical roadmaps and project updates to engineering leadership.
• Problem-Solving Aptitude: Strong organizational and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to identify and escalate issues to leadership as needed.
• Certifications: Agile, Scrum, or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications are a plus.

Preferred Attributes:

• Technical Adaptability: Ability to quickly understand complex technical systems, troubleshoot execution roadblocks, and facilitate resolutions, escalating to leadership when necessary.
• Detail-Oriented: Strong ability to track, organize, and report on engineering tasks and deliverables.
• Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with a track record of building effective communication across engineering and interdisciplinary functions i.e. sales, customer success, etc…

This role is pivotal in ensuring the smooth execution of engineering initiatives as determined by engineering leadership. The Technical Project Manager will focus on task organization, execution, and alignment with engineering leadership's vision, ensuring engineering projects are efficiently delivered and engineering teams are well-supported without unnecessary micromanagement.

Tech Stack

Frontend: ReactJS, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, or similar frameworks
Backend: Node.js, Express.js
Databases: NoSQL and SQL
DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, cloud services (GCP, Azure, AWS)
Bonus: Experience with Applied GenAI, LLMOps, and LLM evaluations

Why Join Sully.ai?
🔥 Shape the Future of Healthcare: Build category-defining partnerships that enable doctors to focus on saving lives.
📈 Early-Stage Impact: Join early and play a critical role in shaping our partnership roadmap and overall company growth.
🌎 Remote-First Culture: Work with a talented, mission-driven team in a flexible, remote environment.
💰 Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary, equity, and the opportunity to make a real difference.
🏆 Solve Scalability Challenges: Tackle complex challenges in a rapidly growing company, driving impactful change in healthcare.