Technical Project Manager.

About the work

We have one part-time PM and a founder who has been pulling more delivery work than is healthy. This role exists to take 70% of that off the founder's plate and to give the engineers a single, calm point of contact for everything that is not code.

The studio runs about 18 engagements a year. You would carry 2–3 at a time, depending on phase. Game projects, enterprise builds, consulting engagements — all of it.

What you'll actually do

• Run weekly client cadence calls. Take the notes, send the recap, follow up on the open items by Friday.
• Own the timeline and the burn report for each engagement. Catch slippage in week 2, not week 8.
• Keep the engagement docs current — the scope memo, the change log, the open-decisions list — so engineers do not have to.
• Be the first responder when a client emails outside of cadence. Triage, answer the easy ones, hand the hard ones to the right engineer with full context.
• Run our internal weekly sync. Twenty minutes, fifteen people, no slides.
• Maintain the studio's ops backbone: invoicing rhythm, contract renewals, deliverable archive.

What you bring

• Four-plus years running technical projects in a software services context — agency, studio, consultancy, or internal platform team.
• Comfort reading code-adjacent work. You do not have to write code. You do have to know the difference between a bug, a scope change, and a misunderstanding, and you have to be able to triage to the right engineer.
• Writing that lands the first time. Clear status notes, clear emails, clear meeting recaps. We do not have an editor; the doc that goes to the client is the doc you wrote.
• Calendar discipline. You will be the most-meeting'd person at the studio. You should know how to protect the team's deep-work time even while your own calendar is full.
• Eligible to work in Canada.

What we are not looking for

• Pure Scrum/Agile certification careers. We do not run a sprint cadence; we run engagement cadences. JIRA Sprint Marshal is not the role.
• Account managers in PM clothing. We do not sell, upsell, or "expand accounts." The PM serves delivery, not revenue.
• Project managers who want to be one degree removed from the work. You will be in the room when the engineers explain why something is hard.

How we interview

• Conversation (45 min) with the founder.
• Working session (75 min). We give you a real situation we have lived through — usually a project where two things slipped at once — and we work through how you would handle it. No prep required. The conversation is the test.
• Reverse interview (45 min). You meet two engineers, no founder in the room. They tell you what they actually want from a PM. You tell them whether you can do it. We get their read after.
• References and offer within a week.

Benefits, plainly

• Compensation as listed above.
• Hybrid, two days in the Concord office most weeks. Tues / Wed is the default but the PM gets the most say in their own calendar.
• Four weeks paid vacation, plus the holiday closure.
• Health and dental after three months.
• Equipment of your choice.
• $2,500 annual learning budget.

Send a note to careers@startpro.ca with a short paragraph on a project that nearly went sideways on your watch — and what you did about it.