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Project Manager

Run the build of a project management tool — inside the tool itself.

4–6 hrs/week, 3-month season, async-first with one weekly sync.
The work

Progense is a PM platform, and you'd manage its own development in Progense: roadmap hygiene, sprint cadence across volunteers in different time zones, unblocking people, and turning founder intent into a plan that ships. You'd also become the loudest product voice in the room — every friction you hit is a product insight.

What you get
  • The most meta case study a PM can have: “I ran the delivery of a PM product, using the product, pre-launch to launch.”
  • Direct influence on the roadmap of the very tool you're using — your workflow complaints become shipped features.
  • Public credit, LinkedIn recommendation from an engineering VP who has sat through a thousand standups, lifetime top-tier access, first claim on the first paid PM/ops role, and a small vested equity grant on the table for sustained ownership.
You’re probably right for this if

You've coordinated delivery before (formally or not), you write clearly, and chasing ambiguity out of a plan gives you genuine satisfaction.

Every role also includes

  • A defined season, not an open tab on your life: 5–8 hours a week for 3 months, then we both re-evaluate honestly.
  • Your name on what ships — public credit on the site and launch material, plus a detailed LinkedIn recommendation from the founder (a VP of Front-End Engineering by day).
  • Lifetime access to Progense's top tier for you or your own projects, from launch day.
  • First right to a paid role: when revenue or funding arrives, the people who built this are hired first, at market rate, with their volunteer months counted.

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Applying for: Project Manager

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