Technical Project Manager
Summary
Technical Project Manager (6-month contract, remote, based in India) supporting PeopleGrove's CORE product team (ELMS and CompMS) behind clinical education workflows for higher ed. Day to day: triaging client requests, grooming the backlog, gathering requirements, and writing release notes and stakeholder communications.
What You’ll Do
- Own the client request intake process end to end: triage incoming requests, categorize them, route them to the correct product or engineering owner, and track them through to resolution.
- Keep the backlog organized and current: ensure tickets are correctly tagged, prioritized in the right queue, and groomed so engineering can pick them up without back-and-forth.
- Communicate work outcomes clearly: write and publish release notes, status updates, and close-the-loop communications for CS, Support, and clients after each release.
- Conduct lightweight discovery and requirements gathering when a request needs clarification: talk directly to CS, Support, or clients, document clear acceptance criteria, and hand off well-scoped requirements to engineering.
- Partner closely with CS and Support: they are your primary signal source. Turn recurring asks and escalations into properly scoped, routed, and trackable work instead of one-off fixes.
- Support release communications and GTM readiness: work with CS and marketing to make sure small, frequent releases are documented and understood by the people who need to know.
- Work closely with Engineering to keep requests moving: make sure tickets are actionable and specific enough to avoid rework, given the team’s fast release cadence.
What We’re Looking For
- 2+ years of experience in business analysis, product operations, or a similar role, ideally within B2B SaaS.
- Demonstrated experience running a structured intake and triage process for a high volume of incoming requests.
- Strong organizational skills, with experience keeping a backlog or board (Jira or similar) clean, accurately tagged, and up to date.
- Excellent written communication skills, specifically translating product and engineering changes into clear release notes and client-facing updates.
- Comfort conducting lightweight requirements gathering: you can take an ambiguous request and turn it into a clear, actionable ticket.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially working directly with CS and Support.
- Comfort working in a distributed, async-first, fast-paced environment with frequent small releases.
- Curiosity, rigor, and a bias toward outcomes over output.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar product ops tooling.
- Experience supporting a legacy platform or product in active maintenance or stabilization mode.
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Experience with clinical education compliance, placement coordination, credentialing, or competency management platforms.
- Experience writing release notes or client-facing documentation.
- Prior experience at a growth-stage edtech or vertical SaaS company.
Why PeopleGrove
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Mission-driven work with real impact on student and faculty outcomes.
- Small, senior team. Your work is visible and matters.
- Fully remote with a collaborative, low-ego culture.
- Competitive contract rate.
Skills
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Short answers (3)
- How many years of experience do you have working in SaaS or equivalent technology?
- How much is your notice period ?
- How much is your total number of years of experience? (please mention only full-time experience, no internships)
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- How many years of experience do you have working in the higher education or non-profit industry?
- This role is based in the US, do you currently reside in the US? optional
- Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship? optional
- From 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest), how much would you rate yourself on communication skills ? optional
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- What is your ideal start date?
- Why are you looking out for a job change ?
- Is your notice period negotiable ? If yes, upto how much ?
- What is your current CTC (mention Total and Fixed)
- What is your expectation in terms of CTC per annum ?
- Do have any offer in hand ? If yes, how much is the offer for ? And what is the date of joining ?