Founding Technical Project Managers.

ACRIVAULT Inc; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

Paid time off 20 days

$3,000 professional development budget

$1,500 home office stipend

Job summary

Acrivault Inc. is seeking a Founding Technical Project Manager to own cross-functional delivery across engineering, compliance, hiring, and partner onboarding. This role drives on-time outcomes, guides audits, and coordinates customers and external vendors.

The successful candidate will manage SOC 2 readiness, HIPAA, ISO, FedRAMP readiness, and build a scalable operating cadence with the founder and engineering teams in a fully remote US-time zone environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Technical Project Management at a software/venture-backed company.
• Direct experience driving SOC 2 audits to certification.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional projects without direct reporting lines.
• Fluency with engineering tooling: Linear or Jira, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Google Workspace.
• Excellent written communication for founder updates, candidate feedback, and customer follow-ups.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and making calls with limited briefing.

Responsibilities

• Engineeering project management across delivery waves, backlog management, and cross-team dependencies.
• Own SOC 2 Type 1/2, HIPAA readiness, audit coordination and auditor relationships.
• Handle hiring operations: screening, interviews, scorecards, offers, metrics.
• Vendor and tooling selection, build comparison matrices, negotiate pricing, calendar management.
• Coordinate customer onboarding, partner onboarding, and quarterly business reviews.
• Support marketing, finance, and founder initiatives including launch coordination.

Skills

Technical PM

SOC 2 coordination

Cross-functional coordination

Engineering tooling

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Linear

Jira

GitHub

Slack

Notion

Google Workspace

Job description

Full time · 3 month contract to hire structure · Remote (US time zones) · $60–$75/hour during contract phase · $120,000–$130,000 base.

About Acrivault

Acrivault is an early stage cybersecurity SaaS company headquartered in Houston, Texas. We are building the AI Native Non Human Identity (NHI) Security Platform purpose designed for mid market technology, financial services, healthcare, and defense companies. Our architecture ships AI native from the foundation: agent session replay, an AI Bill of Materials lineage graph, sub millisecond prompt injection detection, and SPIFFE based workload attestation, all enforced within a 4.5 millisecond p99 authorization budget. We are at the founding stage and hiring the team that will define the company for the next decade.

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 postmortems.
• 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.

Strongly preferred

• Prior chief of staff, BizOps, or founding team experience at a Seed or Series A company.
• Exposure to HITRUST, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, or CMMC compliance frameworks.
• Experience with AI native or AI agent infrastructure (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP servers, Bedrock, Anthropic SDK).
• Familiarity with the NHI security category: machine identities, service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, AI agent identities.

Compensation and structure

• Full time: $120,000-$130,000 base salary, full time W 2 employee.
• Full health, dental, and vision benefits. Unlimited PTO with 20 day minimum. $3,000 annual professional development budget. $1,500 home office stipend.