Remote Government Project Manager - Public Tech & Impact

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 114,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Insurance coverage

Time off

Company holidays

Annual bonus

Parental leave

Wellness program

Virtual care

Sabbatical leave

401(k) match

Flexible work

Home office setup

Utility support

Learning opportunities

Development opportunities

Referral bonus

Commuter benefits

Supportive culture

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a mid-large scale product, coordinating with engineers, designers, and government partners.

You will triage incidents, distill them into actionable tickets, and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and vendors. You will navigate highly ambiguous situations, communicate transparently, and drive value by prioritizing work, improving processes, and ensuring delivery aligned with contract objectives.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Manager in a complex software development environment with multiple stakeholders
• Experience with ticketing systems (Jira and Confluence are used on this project) and documenting issues clearly
• Ability to lead projects with milestones, dependencies, and integrations with risk, uncertainty or scale
• Experience working with product, design, and engineering teams as a cohesive unit and maintaining open lines of communication in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Experience using agile frameworks like scrum, kanban, or SAFe and familiarity with CI/CD practices
• Ability to grow and nurture client relationships to drive prioritization across multiple projects
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Clear communication and transparency in situational awareness and conflict resolution
• Adaptive, proactive, empathetic, tenacious, and positive mindset

Responsibilities

• Work directly at the intersection of government and the Nava team to manage our sprint process, estimate our efforts, triage incidents, manage expectations, and track and communicate progress as well as remove blockers when needed
• Proactively build relationships with stakeholders and other contractors
• Understand the team’s objectives, systems, and capabilities in order to make decisions about project priorities and to help resolve issues
• Coordinate multiple contractor teams to bring alignment to large ecosystems and create holistic success for everyone
• Accurately report risks, successes, progress, and failures
• Manage the team’s velocity and continually improve our processes for organizing ourselves and our work
• Demonstrate a passion for learning, embrace change, and ask insightful questions particularly about business needs and IT capabilities

Skills

Project management

Delivery management

Scrum Master

Stakeholder management

Ticketing systems

Agile frameworks

Vendor coordination

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a mid-large scale product, coordinating with engineers, designers, and government partners.

You will triage incidents, distill them into actionable tickets, and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and vendors. You will navigate highly ambiguous situations, communicate transparently, and drive value by prioritizing work, improving processes, and ensuring delivery aligned with contract objectives.