Founding Technical Project Manager at ACRIVAULT
About this role
We are hiring our Founding Technical Project Manager — the first dedicated project-management hire at Acrivault and the person who will run every cross-functional project in the company through its first eighteen months. You will own engineering project coordination across the twenty microservices and five engineering pillars, the SOC 2 audit timeline, hiring operations, vendor selection, compliance roadmap delivery, customer onboarding logistics, marketing launch coordination, and the operating cadence that connects the founder, the engineering team, customers, and external partners.
This is a full-time, full-scope Technical Project Manager role — not a coordinator, not a scrum master, not a junior PM. You will own real outcomes, drive real delivery against real deadlines, and be measured on whether projects ship on time and at quality.
What you'll do
● Engineering project management (30% of time). Run weekly engineering planning across the four delivery waves (Wave 1 Discovery, Wave 2 Governance, Wave 3 Identity Firewall, Wave 4 AI Intelligence), daily standup facilitation, and Linear backlog management. Accept deliverables against the architect's fourteen written deliverables. Coordinate cross-team dependencies. Run blameless post-mortems.
● Compliance project management (25%). Own Day-1 NIST CSF 2.0 baseline and HIPAA-readiness through the Tier 8 Compliance & Residency primitives. Own the SOC 2 Type 1 audit (Month 6), SOC 1 Type 1 (Month 9), SOC 2 Type 2 + ISO 27001 (Month 12), HITRUST i1 + PCI-DSS (Months 16-18), and FedRAMP Moderate + CMMC Level 2 (Months 22-24). Manage auditor relationships and customer security questionnaire SLA.
● Hiring operations (15%). Source candidates, conduct phone screens, schedule technical interviews, manage interview scorecards, run reference checks, manage offer logistics, and maintain hiring pipeline metrics.
● Vendor and tooling selection (10%). Run vendor selection for compliance automation, EOR, payroll, legal, accounting, and major SaaS tooling. Build comparison matrices, negotiate pricing, and maintain the SaaS renewal calendar.
● Customer operations and design-partner onboarding (10%). From Month 6 onward, coordinate design partner onboarding, weekly check-ins, quarterly business reviews, customer support triage, and the agent session replay demo (the v2 architecture's marquee differentiator).
● Marketing, launch, finance, and founder support (10% combined). Website refresh cadence, public launch coordination (Month 9-12), conference logistics, social media calendar, monthly close with the fractional CFO, equity grant administration, founder calendar, and communications support.
Required qualifications
● 5+ years of Technical Project Management experience at a venture-backed software company, with at least 2 years in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, identity, or developer tooling.
● Direct experience driving a SOC 2 audit to certification (Type 1 or Type 2). You have sat across from an auditor and led evidence collection.
● Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional projects across engineering, product, security, sales, and external auditors — without the team reporting to you.
● Fluency with engineering tooling: Linear or Jira, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace. You read pull requests, understand sprint trade-offs, and can intelligently discuss roadmap risks.
● Excellent written communication. You will draft a lot of communication on the founder's behalf — investor updates, candidate rejections, customer follow-ups.
● Comfortable operating in ambiguity. The founder will not always have time to brief you. You will need to read documents, ask sharp questions, and make calls.