Aerospace Software Project Manager (Remote‑Friendly)

Urrly; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Urrly in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a project manager who can turn complex customer requirements, contract scope, and cross-functional engineering work into shipped software for aerospace and defense. You will own planning, delivery, and coordination with customers, engineering, QA, and product partners, guiding projects through scope, schedule, budget, and risk in a Scrum/Agile environment.

You will build trusted relationships and provide clear reporting, forecasting, and KPIs, while supporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, communications, or related field.
• 3+ years managing software development, technology implementation, or customer delivery projects.
• Experience with multiple technical projects and cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in project or program management methodologies.
• Hands-on planning, work breakdown structures, risk management, and cost estimating.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer-funded software projects from kickoff through completion, keeping work aligned to contractual scope, schedule, and budget.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, action items, risks, issues, and decision items.
• Translate statements of work, contract modifications, and customer requirements into development activities and measurable outcomes.
• Provide forward-looking project planning with attention to upcoming tasks, due dates, resource availability, and delivery commitments.
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, manage key milestones, and summarize project progress for internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for customers on assigned projects.
• Lead recurring status meetings, technical discussions, demonstrations, training coordination, and project reviews.
• Prepare customer-facing reports, presentations, project plans, meeting materials, and contract deliverables.
• Identify known customer needs and route them to the appropriate team members.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with team members, vendors, customers, and departments contributing to project delivery.
• Coordinate with technical leads, developers, QA personnel, product managers, application engineers, design engineers, and architecture partners to establish priorities and monitor progress.
• Support product and release planning activities, including roadmap reviews, sprint planning, readiness reviews, and deployment coordination.
• Identify risks, issues, roadblocks and resource constraints early; develop mitigation plans and elevate concerns when needed.
• Coordinate interdependent projects by managing resources, dependencies, priorities, and timing across teams.
• Help define and improve processes and standards for software and operations teams.
• Provide and track accurate forecast spending, project financials, milestones, and delivery dates.
• Give employees task assignments with defined objectives, due dates, and estimated hours.
• Support quarterly and annual planning with attention to past performance and future efforts.
• Track, report, and review companywide KPIs, including revenue numbers and progress against priorities.
• Communicate milestone status clearly and consistently so leaders, customers, and delivery teams understand where projects stand.

Skills

Project management

Scrum/Agile

Cross-functional leadership

Customer communication

Risk management

Cost estimating

Schedule development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Urrly in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a project manager who can turn complex customer requirements, contract scope, and cross-functional engineering work into shipped software for aerospace and defense. You will own planning, delivery, and coordination with customers, engineering, QA, and product partners, guiding projects through scope, schedule, budget, and risk in a Scrum/Agile environment.

You will build trusted relationships and provide clear reporting, forecasting, and KPIs, while supporting