Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Leadership: Manage and lead projects, ensuring timely delivery, quality, and alignment with business objectives.

• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with engineers, architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.

• Technical Planning & Execution: Develop detailed project plans, manage resources, and execute tasks to deliver solutions.

• Risk Management: Proactively identify project risks, issues, and dependencies. Implement mitigation strategies and ensure that teams remain on track to meet deadlines.

• Collaboration & Communication: Facilitate clear communication among team members and stakeholders, ensuring that all parties are informed of progress, roadblocks, and key milestones.

• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement in the development and deployment process, leveraging feedback and retrospectives to refine and optimize workflows.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in project management, ideally within a cloud-native or DevOps-focused environment.

• Project Management Skills:

  • Proven track record of managing complex technical projects, ideally in a cloud or infrastructure environment.

  • Experience with Kanban using project tracking tools

  • Excellent time management skills and ability to handle multiple competing priorities.

• Communication & Leadership:

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

  • Ability to translate technical details to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.

  • Strong leadership and team collaboration skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.

• Technical Expertise:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Understanding of Kubernetes architecture and deployment models (e.g., on-prem, cloud, hybrid).

  • Familiarity with containerization concepts (Docker, Helm, etc.).

  • Understanding of DevOps principles including CI/CD pipelines, automation, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

About vCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+10k GitHub stars). Open source is part of our DNA.

The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue) and our customer base includes some of the biggest companies in the world, including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.

• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).

• Flexible Working Schedule:  You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

• Workplace Flexibility:  We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Culture & Values

At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:

1. Open Source, Open Mind: We are actively contributing to and maintaining open-source projects. Internally, we foster meritocracy — the strongest ideas win, no matter who or where they come from.

2. Build Tomorrow’s Standards, Intentionally: We don't just ship software; we define the state-of-the-art of tomorrow. We are fearless in tearing down old approaches to build something better, but we are disciplined in how we do it because we know our users rely on our technology to run mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

3. Create Wow: We measure success by the experience we generate, both inside and outside the company. For our customers, this means impressive speed and intuitive experiences. For our team, this means going the extra mile to support one another and to continuously drive each other to new heights.

4. Own the Outcome: We understand that our responsibility doesn't end when a task is checked off; it ends when the value is delivered. We connect our daily individual actions to the broader success of the company and our customers.