Technical Project Manager

About Cerebre  

cerebre is on a mission to build the data foundation of the physical world. We offer a live intelligence map of a facilities – built from schematics to power AI. Often called the “brain” of the digital twin, cerebre helps engineers, data scientists, and business teams understand data within the context of the plant.  

We collaborate with the world’s largest companies and most innovative partners who are transforming the industrial sector.  

cerebre is a global team of engineers, scientists, innovators, and explorers united by a mission to help the world’s largest manufacturing facilities build and use intelligence.  

Our development team is made up of world-class engineers who design and deliver novel solutions. This is an opportunity to join a market-leading team that is changing how the industrial world works.  

If you love building and creating value in the “white space,” if you thrive with the freedom and flexibility to think outside the box, if you are passionate about working with critical thinkers who challenge the status quo, and if you aspire to work in a fast-paced environment – we would love to meet you! 

We believe flexibility drives creativity and that our team should live and work where we can be our best selves. We’re 100% remote and offer a competitive time-off package to ensure time for rest and recharge. 

About the Role 

• As a Project Manager at cerebre, you will play a key role in leading software project execution, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and cross-functional collaboration. Your work will be critical in bridging technical teams and business stakeholders, including clients, facilitating seamless execution in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 

• You will coordinate distributed development teams across multiple time zones, manage risks, optimize workflows, and drive key initiatives from planning through release. Your ability to implement structure without adding unnecessary bureaucracy will directly support our mission to build better, faster, and smarter. 

• This is an exciting opportunity to drive impact within a growing, global organization, working on projects that shape the future of industrial digitalization. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead cross-functional development teams through sprint planning, daily standups, and release cycles. 

• Own end-to-end release management including QA checkpoints, release criteria, and standardized documentation processes. 

• Manage Jira administration, optimize workflows, and implement automation to improve ticket quality and team velocity. 

• Track progress against product goals with weekly reporting on risks, key decisions, and estimated time to completion (ETCs). 

• Facilitate technical interviews, onboarding for new developers, and implement knowledge-sharing practices to reduce team dependencies. 

• Collaborate with Product Management to align engineering capacity with roadmap priorities and support quarterly planning efforts. 

• Conduct process assessments and implement estimation methodologies to improve development predictability and team performance. 

• Serve as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders, managing customer support escalations and synthesizing user pain points. 

• Establish quality metrics, tracking mechanisms, and deliver regular project health reports to engineering and company leadership. 

Required Skills 

• 6+ years of experience in project management within IT, engineering, or consulting environments. 

• Proven experience leading agile software development teams through full project lifecycles. 

• Hands-on experience managing and configuring Jira (or similar tools) including workflows, custom fields, automations, and reporting. 

• Strong understanding of release management, QA processes, and documentation standards in a technical environment. 

• Ability to track and report on product goals, ETCs, risks, and dependencies across multiple concurrent initiatives. 

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills—especially across time zones, with both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Experience conducting interviews and onboarding processes for technical team members. 

• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities with a focus on driving execution and continuous improvement. 

• Fluent English (written and verbal). 

Preferred Skills 

• Certified or deeply familiar with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches). 

• Background in software development, engineering, or process optimization. 

• Familiarity with broader project management tools such as Asana, Trello, or Notion. 

• Experience managing customer or user feedback loops in a product development setting. 

• Ability to create lightweight documentation to support alignment, knowledge transfer, and team clarity. 

• Strong leadership skills and a proactive, self-starting mindset. 

More about cerebre 

We are cross-functional collaborators.  

We blend manufacturing process knowledge with software and big data engineering expertise to create value in physical settings 

We are experienced.  

We are armed with industry-leading experts in numerical simulation, combustion, power, computational fluid dynamics, and chemical process modeling 

We are serious builders.  

We develop our platforms using leading practices in IT/OT architecture, OT security, AI architecture, ML Ops, and Platform engineering