Founding Technical Project Managers

Full time
· 3 month contract to hire structure
· Remote (US time zones) · $60–$75/hour during contract phase · $120,000–$130,000 base.

Acrivault is an early stage cybersecurity SaaS company headquartered in Houston, Texas. We are building the AI Native Non Human Identity (NHI) Security Platform purpose designed for mid market technology, financial services, healthcare, and defense companies. Our architecture ships AI native from the foundation: agent session replay, an AI Bill of Materials lineage graph, sub millisecond prompt injection detection, and SPIFFE based workload attestation, all enforced within a 4.5 millisecond p99 authorization budget.

We are at the founding stage and hiring the team that will define the company for the next decade.

We are hiring our Founding Technical Project Manager the first dedicated project management hire at Acrivault and the person who will run every cross functional project in the company through its first eighteen months. You will own engineering project coordination across the twenty microservices and five engineering pillars, the SOC 2 audit timeline, hiring operations, vendor selection, compliance roadmap delivery, customer onboarding logistics, marketing launch coordination, and the operating cadence that connects the founder, the engineering team, customers, and external partners.

This is a full time, full scope Technical Project Manager role not a coordinator, not a scrum master, not a junior PM. You will own real outcomes, drive real delivery against real deadlines, and be measured on whether projects ship on time and at quality.

• Engineering project management (30% of time). Run weekly engineering planning across the four delivery waves (Wave 1 Discovery, Wave 2 Governance, Wave 3 Identity Firewall, Wave 4 AI Intelligence), daily standup facilitation, and Linear backlog management. Accept deliverables against the architect’s fourteen written deliverables. Coordinate cross team dependencies. Run blameless postmortems.
• Compliance project management (25%). Own Day 1 NIST CSF 2.0 baseline and HIPAA readiness through the Tier 8 Compliance & Residency primitives. Own the SOC 2 Type 1 audit (Month
  6), SOC 1 Type 1 (Month
  9), SOC 2 Type 2 + ISO 27001 (Month 12), HITRUST i1 + PCI DSS (Months 16 18), and FedRAMP Moderate + CMMC Level 2 (Months 22 24). Manage auditor relationships and customer security questionnaire SLA.
• Hiring operations (15%). Source candidates, conduct phone screens, schedule technical interviews, manage interview scorecards, run reference checks, manage offer logistics, and maintain hiring pipeline metrics.
• Vendor and tooling selection (10%). Run vendor selection for compliance automation, EOR, payroll, legal, accounting, and major SaaS tooling. Build comparison matrices, negotiate pricing, and maintain the SaaS renewal calendar.
• Customer operations and design partner onboarding (10%). From Month 6 onward, coordinate design partner onboarding, weekly check ins, quarterly business reviews, customer support triage, and the agent session replay demo (the v2 architecture’s marquee differentiator).
• Marketing, launch, finance, and founder support (10% combined). Website refresh cadence, public launch coordination (Month 9 12), conference logistics, social media calendar, monthly close with the fractional CFO, equity grant administration, founder calendar, and communications support.

• 5+ years of Technical Project Management experience at a venture backed software company, with at least 2 years in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, identity, or developer tooling.
• Direct experience driving a SOC 2 audit to certification (Type 1 or Type
  2). You have sat across from an auditor…