Technical project manager

About Offensive Security

Founded in 2006 by the creators of Kali Linux, OffSec (formerly known as Offensive Security) is the leading provider of continuous professional and workforce development, training, and education for cybersecurity practitioners. OffSec’s distinct pedagogy and practical, hands-on learning help organizations fill the infosec talent gap by training their teams on today’s most critical skills. Become a part of our global presence and work from anywhere. With team members in over 40 countries, we believe in inspiring people of all backgrounds and communities. The OffSec team is composed of diverse, internationally published authors, conference speakers, and seasoned information technology professionals from both the private sector and governments worldwide. Excited about our mission and what we do? Apply and join us!

About the Job

You'll join a distributed team of project managers, product managers, and developers across North America and Europe supporting and evolving OffSec's Learning Management System, which powers the end-to-end experience for our enterprise customers and individual students. The work spans ongoing feature development, platform improvements, and operational support for a high-traffic, customer-facing system. OffSec is looking for a self-driven, highly motivated Technical Project Manager to join our Project Management Team as a force multiplier, keeping cross-functional work moving with clarity and pace. You'll bring strong organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a proven ability to guide others to deliver outstanding results in a timely manner.

Duties and responsibilities

• Succeeding by outcomes, ensuring the role improves delivery speed, clarity, and reduces friction rather than focusing on activities such as meetings or reporting.
• Managing a portfolio of cross-functional projects across software development, SRE, and DevOps, maintaining momentum and resolving competing priorities without formal authority over delivery teams.
• Maintaining deep working knowledge of assigned projects, with the ability to clearly explain status, context, and rationale without reliance on engineering teams.
• Taking full ownership of project outcomes, making decisions, driving accountability, and avoiding upward delegation when challenges arise.
• Identifying, managing, and escalating risks and issues proactively to prevent delivery delays or impact.
• Running technical and project meetings with a focus on driving clear decisions, actions, and ownership.
• Driving project planning, capacity planning, and roadmap discussions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Delivering clear and structured weekly updates to stakeholders, including progress, risks, blockers, and next steps.
• Owning project communication end-to-end, ensuring alignment across internal teams and wider stakeholders.
• Using AI tools effectively to improve efficiency across planning, communication, documentation, and analysis.
• Documenting key decisions and rationale in Confluence in real time to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Supporting overall project delivery and contributing to additional initiatives as required.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in related field or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education
• 2-3 years previous experience in software development project management.
• Strong analytical, planning and organizational skills, with meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent spoken and written communication as well as receptive listening skills.
• Experience working with global teams in varying time zones and remote locations.
• Ability to accomplish goals by managing and influencing individuals to meet deadlines on time.
• Leverage AI tools to improve project planning, reporting, documentation, and day-to-day execution efficiency.
• Proven experience implementing standard project management and SDLC methodologies and best practices.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks.
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management concepts and techniques required.
• Familiar with technical IT related topics including programming, networking, webservers and VMWare would be beneficial, but not required
• Experience using Slack, Jira, and Confluence
• Strong knowledge in the G Suite of products: Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides
• Comfortability or experience working on a Mac machine.

Working conditions

This role is a fully remote, full-time position. Work hours for this position are flexible with preference to starting around 10:00 AM UTC and will be performed from a home office. A reliable, high-speed internet connection is required.

Direct reports

This position has no direct reports.

EEO

OffSec provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.