Project Manager

SpringTime Ventures; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearJet is seeking an experienced Project Manager to connect a distributed team and turn ambiguous intent into clearly sequenced work. You will own specs, acceptance criteria, and decision records, coordinating across engineering, product, data, and internal teams.

You’ll communicate progress, blockers, and outcomes before questions arise, using AI tools to accelerate planning and delivery. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, async-enabled environment where clear writing, proactive context sharing,

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software or technical delivery — including startup/small-team experience.
• Track record shipping cross-functional work with engineering.
• Daily use of AI tools in workflow with concrete examples.
• Fluency with modern collaboration tools (Jira, Linear, Slack, docs).
• Excellent written English.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery across engineering, product, data and customer-facing teams.
• Draft specs, summarize threads, triage backlogs, prepare work for AI agents.
• Identify blockers and dependencies; drive decisions to closure.
• Communicate status with minimal ceremony; record decisions for future reference.
• Lead retrospectives and apply learnings to prevent recurrence.

Skills

Project management

Communication

AI fluency

Detail oriented

Async work

Cross-functional

English fluency

Tools

Jira

Linear

Slack

Docs

Job description

About Us

At ClearJet, we're solving logistics problems for the modern company. By introducing technology into antiquated processes and systems, we drive extreme efficiencies that reduce waste and cost while delighting our customers.

As a team, we use GenAI daily to turbo-charge how we work — not as a novelty, but as the default. Our engineers ship with AI-assisted tooling; our analysts query data conversationally; and a growing share of our delivery pipeline is executed by AI agents that pick up well-specified work and run it end to end. Our philosophy is simple: GenAI is a tool that, used correctly, produces outsized results. The teams embracing this wave are positioning themselves for success in the new world.

About the Role

We're looking for a Project Manager to be the connective tissue of a small, fast, distributed company — the person who turns ambiguous intent into clear, sequenced, delivered work.

This is not a status-meeting job. Because so much of our execution is AI-accelerated, the bottleneck has moved: it is no longer typing speed, it's clarity. A vague requirement now produces a confidently wrong result in twenty minutes instead of a clarifying question in two days. Specs, acceptance criteria, and decision records are the highest-leverage artifacts in the company — they're what both engineers and agents build from.

You’ll work across engineering, product, data, and collaborate with all internal teams. You’ll be the person who knows what’s actually happening, what’s actually blocked, and what actually shipped — and who communicates all three before anyone has to ask.

What You’ll Own

• Cross-functional coordination: Run delivery across engineering, ops, data, and customer-facing teams. Surface dependencies early, drive decisions to closure, and elevate with a recommendation rather than a question mark.
• Communication as a product: Keep everyone appropriately informed with the least possible ceremony — crisp async updates, honest status (including bad news, early), decisions recorded where they can be found later. Silence and surprises are both failures.
• Risk and blocker management: Identify what's likely to go wrong before it does, and unblock relentlessly. When something slips, the question is never "why didn't we know?"
• Working the AI-first pipeline: Use AI tools daily to draft specs, summarize threads, triage backlogs, generate first-pass plans and reports, and prepare work for agent execution. You’ll refine and verify output rather than start from a blank page — and you’ll know where the tools shine and where they don’t.
• Process, sized correctly: Introduce the lightest process that solves a real problem, and delete process that’s stopped earning its keep. We want a PM who reduces overhead, not one who adds it.
• Continuous improvement: Run honest retrospectives on what shipped late, broke, or missed the mark, and close the loop so the same class of problem doesn’t recur.
  

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: You know how work flows through the company today, who owns what, and where it stalls. You’ve written and shipped specs for real work.
• First 60 days: Delivery status is legible to anyone who wants it without a meeting. Intake is consistent enough that work no longer arrives underspecified.
• First 90 days: Predictable delivery on committed work, fewer late surprises, and a measurably shorter path from "someone asked for this" to "it's live and verified."
  

Who You Are

• An exceptional communicator. You write clearly and concisely, adapt your register to the audience — engineer, operator, executive, customer — and you'd rather over-communicate a risk than protect a narrative. Strong written communication is the single most important qualification for this role.
• A natural translator. You can sit with an ops lead and an engineer and leave with one shared understanding of the problem. You're comfortable being the least technical person in one room and the most technical in the next.
• Genuinely AI-fluent. You already use LLMs in your daily workflow and can talk specifically about what you've automated, what you've sped up, and where the tools burned you. Enthusiasm without hands‑on usage isn't what we're after.
• Detail-obsessed about the right details. You catch the missing edge case in a spec and let go of the cosmetic inconsistency in a slide.
• Independent and async-native. Comfortable working across time zones without supervision, proactive about pulling context rather than waiting to be briefed, and reliable about the commitments you make.
• Output-oriented. Focused on delivering results within timelines we agree on, and on hitting them without micromanagement.
• Low-ego and hands‑on. In a small company the PM writes the doc, chases the answer, tests the thing, and updates the ticket. Nothing is beneath the role.
• Balanced. You work hard during the day and value your personal time, stepping in outside hours only for genuine urgency.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years managing software or technical delivery — project, program, delivery, or technical product management — including at least one role at a startup or on a small team where you were the whole function.
• A track record of shipping cross-functional work with engineering counterparts, and comfort with the vocabulary of modern software delivery (environments, releases, incidents, dependencies, technical debt).
• Demonstrated daily use of AI tools in your own workflow — with concrete examples.
• Fluency in modern collaboration tooling (issue trackers such as Linear or Jira,, Slack, docs), and the instinct to keep the system of record actually current.
• Excellent written English.

If you meet most of this and are strong on communication and AI fluency, we'd rather see your application than not.

Why Join Us

• Be the operating backbone of a company that's automating an industry that's barely been touched by software.
• Work in an environment where AI tooling is genuinely embraced, not merely tolerated — you'll get better at it fast, alongside people doing the same.
• Real ownership and short decision paths: no PMO, no committee, no theater. If you see a better way, you’ll be the one who implements it.
• A flexible, async-friendly, globally distributed team that respects your personal time and values results over hours clocked.

ClearJet is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.