Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

We're hiring our first dedicated Technical Project Manager to own cross-team execution of our technical programs. You'll be the connective tissue of delivery: sequencing work across teams, clearing dependencies, owning timelines and risk, and giving leadership a clear picture of status. You're technical enough to reason about architecture, integrations, and infrastructure tradeoffs, but your job is driving programs, not writing code.

Drive cross-team coordination: sequence work and clear dependencies across teams (e.g., a product feature touching frontend, backend, data engineering, ML, and SRE).

Own program delivery end to end: take named initiatives — platform projects, internal tooling, infrastructure work, product launches — from kickoff through ship.

Own plans, timelines, and risk: maintain project plans and milestones, track and mitigate technical and delivery risk, and report clear status to leadership.

Own intake and capacity: run triage and routing in the Jira request portal — clarify, size, dedupe, and route requests to the right boards — and allocate capacity, with clear specs so async work doesn't stall.

Run the cross-team delivery sync: facilitate a Scrum-of-Scrums-style forum that executes against agreed priorities and bring real capacity and dependency data to the portfolio/roadmap sync.

Surface trade-offs: when two products contend for a shared resource, make the tradeoff visible with data so leadership can decide.

Product Owners decide priority; you sequence and deliver against it. You surface cross-product conflicts and aide in the decision-making process with PO's and technical leadership.

The Tech Lead, along with engineering leadership, owns architecture and technical direction; you understand the architecture and flag technical risk, but engineering decisions remain theirs.

The Scrum Master owns team-level process and health; you consume sprint outcomes to keep the cross-team plan accurate.

7 years in technical project/program management delivering cross-team software and infrastructure programs.

Technical literacy: you can reason about system architecture, APIs and integrations, infrastructure, and latency/throughput trade-offs. Programmatic advertising or ad-tech experience is a strong plus.

Dependency and risk management: proven ability to map critical paths, manage dependencies, and keep complex programs on schedule, with hands-on Jira experience.

Distributed-team coordination, including working effectively across time zones.

Excellent written communication: you translate complex technical status into clear, concise updates for executives.

Bonus: ad-tech experience and a track record standing up project/program management where none existed.

Preferred, not required: PMP, PgMP, PSM, or equivalent. We weight demonstrated experience over credentials.

Joining Chalice means being at the forefront of AI for advertising, working in a dynamic environment that encourages creativity, growth, and innovation. We value diversity, collaboration, and dedication to making a meaningful impact in the advertising landscape.

Chalice is a profitable early-stage company with funding from industry insiders including Trade Desk's TD7 Ventures and Aperiam Ventures. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies and the world's largest advertising agencies to up-and-coming brands and independent agencies across the globe.

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We are committed to diversity of thought, background, and experience, and creating psychological safety for all to thrive

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

401(k) options

Unlimited PTO

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