Junior Project Manager (Keet P2P) (100% remote)

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Holepunch is seeking a Junior Project Manager to help keep the Keet engine team organized, convert priorities into clear plans, and ensure nothing slips between releases.

You’ll collaborate with a globally distributed, fully remote team of engineers and designers, learn technical concepts quickly, and contribute to sprint planning, release notes, and project documentation.

This role offers an entry path into technical PM or product management within a privacy‑focused, open‑source workflow.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in project coordination, project management, or a similar role (internships and open-source involvement count)
• Excellent written English communication; you can explain technical progress clearly and concisely
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Comfortable working with engineers and learning technical concepts quickly
• Experience with issue trackers and project tools (e.g. GitHub Issues/Projects, Jira, Linear)
• Self-starter who thrives in a fully remote, async-first team

Responsibilities

• Track engine work across sprints and releases, keeping issues, milestones, and roadmaps current
• Run or support stand-ups, planning sessions, and retrospectives across time zones (mostly async)
• Coordinate between the engine team, Keet app/UI developers, and QA so dependencies are visible early
• Write clear status updates, release notes, and meeting summaries
• Help triage bug reports and user feedback, and route them to the right engineers
• Spot risks and blockers early and help the team resolve them
• Keep internal documentation and processes tidy and easy to follow

Skills

Organized

Strong written English

Experience with issue trackers

Remote / async collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GitHub Issues/Projects

Jira

Linear

Job description

Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital FinanceAt Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.

Innovate with TetherTether Finance: Our innovative product suite features the world’s most trusted stablecoin, USDT, relied upon by hundreds of millions worldwide, alongside pioneering digital asset tokenization services.But that’s just the beginning:Tether Power: Driving sustainable growth, our energy solutions optimize excess power for Bitcoin mining using eco-friendly practices in state-of-the-art, geo-diverse facilities.Tether Data: Fueling breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology, we reduce infrastructure costs and enhance global communications with cutting-edge solutions like KEET, our flagship app that redefines secure and private data sharing.Tether Education: Democratizing access to top-tier digital learning, we empower individuals to thrive in the digital and gig economies, driving global growth and opportunity.Tether Evolution: At the intersection of technology and human potential, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, crafting a future where innovation and human capabilities merge in powerful, unprecedented ways.

Why Join Us?

Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world. If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space, this is your opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards. We’ve grown fast, stayed lean, and secured our place as a leader in the industry.If you have excellent English communication skills and are ready to contribute to the most innovative platform on the planet, Tether is the place for you.Are you ready to be part of the future?

About Holepunch

At Holepunch, we're building a peer-to-peer platform for apps that don't need servers at all. Users connect directly, which means they keep full control of their data and their conversations stay private by design. We believe the internet should be peer-to-peer by default, and Keet, our P2P video call and chat app, is how we're showing the world what that looks like.Keet runs on Pear Runtime and our open-source stack (Hypercore, Hyperswarm, Hyperdrive), which handles everything from peer discovery and NAT traversal to data replication and end-to-end encryption.

About the job

The Keet engine team works on the core that makes Keet tick: connecting peers, replicating data, syncing rooms, and keeping calls and file transfers fast and reliable across every kind of network. We're looking for an organized, curious Junior Project Manager to help keep that work moving.You'll work closely with a globally distributed team of senior engineers, help turn priorities into clear plans, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks between releases. This is a great role for someone early in their career who wants to grow into technical project or product management in a deeply technical, open-source environment.

Responsibilities

• Track engine work across sprints and releases, keeping issues, milestones, and roadmaps current
• Run or support stand-ups, planning sessions, and retrospectives across time zones (mostly async)
• Coordinate between the engine team, Keet app/UI developers, and QA so dependencies are visible early
• Write clear status updates, release notes, and meeting summaries
• Help triage bug reports and user feedback, and route them to the right engineers
• Spot risks and blockers early and help the team resolve them
• Keep internal documentation and processes tidy and easy to follow

Mandatory:

• 1–2 years of experience in project coordination, project management, or a similar role (internships and open-source involvement count)
• Excellent written English communication; you can explain technical progress clearly and concisely
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Comfortable working with engineers and learning technical concepts quickly
• Experience with issue trackers and project tools (e.g. GitHub Issues/Projects, Jira, Linear)
• Self-starter who thrives in a fully remote, async-first team

Preferred:

• Basic understanding of networking or distributed systems concepts (P2P, DHTs, NAT traversal, replication)
• Familiarity with software development lifecycles, Git, and release processes
• Some exposure to JavaScript/Node.js or experience working alongside a dev team
• Interest in privacy, decentralization, or open-source software
• Agile/Scrum knowledge or a certification (PSM, CAPM, etc.)
• Experience working across many time zones