IT Project Manager, CTO's Operating Partner

Powerdigitalmarketing
Ecuador
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level IT professionals with experience in cross-functional coordination who thrive in distributed teams and prioritize operational clarity.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience managing multi-workstream programs in tech environments
    — “Track record running multi-workstream programs in a work-management tool”
  • Individuals who can act as a strategic enabler for senior leaders in a remote setting
    — “Report directly to the CTO, take operational work off the CTO's plate so leadership time goes to strategy”
  • Professionals accustomed to working across time zones and maintaining proactive communication
    — “Work across multiple time zones with a distributed team”

Things to consider

  • Advanced English proficiency is mandatory, including written and spoken communication
    — “Proficiency in spoken and written English at an advanced level is required for this role”
  • Candidates must be available during US business hours and able to work after-hours on short notice
    — “availability during US business hours, and after-hours availability on short notice”

How to stand out

  • Showcase your ability to maintain a single source of truth for complex initiatives
    — “maintain a single source of truth for all IT, Security and Product initiatives”
  • Demonstrate your experience in reducing leadership operational load through process optimization
    — “Reduce the CTO's recurring operational meetings and tasks by a defined target within 90 days”
  • Highlight your track record of resolving blockers and escalating issues with clear recommendations
    — “surface blockers early, escalate with a recommendation, and close the loop with stakeholders”
  • Emphasize your skill in preparing executive-ready reports and decision memos
    — “able to turn messy updates into an executive-ready status report or decision memo”
  • Demonstrate familiarity with AI-driven tools for optimizing business workflows
    — “Employ AI technologies to enhance and optimize business processes”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • tracks initiatives
  • runs operating cadence
  • takes operational work off CTO's plate
Typical background
project managementtechnology operations

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementOperational CadenceVendor CoordinationAI TechnologiesBusiness Operations

Preferred

Agentic Technologies

Stack & domain

Project ManagementProgram ManagementChief Of StaffTechnology OperationsAI TechnologiesNova EcosystemLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkOwnershipITSecurityProductAI

About the role

Original posting from Powerdigitalmarketing via Greenhouse

Who We Are:

Power Digital is an AI-Native Growth Firm built at the intersection of world-class talent and proprietary technology. We help leading and emerging brands grow by combining deep vertical expertise, strategic thinking, and enterprise intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes.

For more than a decade, we have built our business around one belief: the best technology makes great people better. Our teams of strategists, creatives, analysts, and technologists use Omega, our AI operating system, to surface opportunities faster, investigate what is driving performance, and execute approved work with greater speed and precision. Behind Omega is Iris, our proprietary intelligence layer, built on years of real performance data, strategic frameworks, testing, and learnings from across our client portfolio. AI expands the capacity of our people to think, create, solve harder problems, and make better decisions. Human judgment, creativity, and accountability remain central to how we work. 

As a people-first firm, we value diversity in backgrounds and experiences. We strongly believe our people and culture are key to our success. We partner closely with our clients as an extension of their teams, working across strategy, execution, and measurement to identify what is truly blocking growth and determine what to do next. Our culture is built on people who are curious, ambitious, accountable, and committed to delivering meaningful results for our clients and for one another.

At Power Digital, we believe the future belongs to teams that combine the best talent with the best technology. We are building that future today.

***Proficiency in spoken and written English at an advanced level is required for this role.

A day in the life:

As the IT Project Manager, you are the CTO's operating partner. Reporting directly to the CTO, you own the rhythm of the Technology organization: you track every initiative, commitment and decision across IT, Security and Product, run the operating cadence, and take operational work off the CTO's plate so leadership time goes to strategy. You know the status of everything, you chase what's slipping before it becomes a problem, and you make sure nothing falls through the cracks. You work across multiple time zones with a distributed team.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the Technology portfolio: maintain a single source of truth for all IT, Security and Product initiatives with owners, dates, status, risks and decisions
  • Run the operating cadence: leadership meeting agendas and notes, action-item tracking, vendor and contract renewal calendar, salary-cap and budget tracking, and prep for executive reporting
  • Take operational work off the CTO's plate: vendor coordination, procurement follow-ups, hiring logistics with Talent, cross-department requests and documentation
  • Drive follow-through: chase commitments across teams, surface blockers early, escalate with a recommendation, and close the loop with stakeholders
  • Employ AI technologies to enhance and optimize business processes
  • Other applicable or related duties as assigned
  • Utilize and leverage Power Digital's Nova ecosystem as it relates to your department

Role Requirements:

3+ years in project/program management, chief of staff, or technology operations roles supporting a senior technology leader

Track record running multi-workstream programs in a work-management tool. Nice to have: Fluency running business operations leveraging modern agentic tools (e.g. Grok Bot, Claude Cowork, etc.)

Strong written English: able to turn messy updates into an executive-ready status report or decision memo

Working comfort with budgets, vendor contracts, renewals and procurement workflows

Enough technical literacy to track IT, security and software work credibly and ask the right questions

Relentless, respectful follow-up; comfortable holding senior stakeholders to commitments

Advanced spoken and written English (C1+ or higher) and availability during US business hours, and after-hours availability on short notice

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Portfolio Visibility – 100% of active Technology initiatives tracked in the portfolio with owner, due date, status and risk, updated weekly (audited monthly by the CTO)
  • CTO Operational Footprint – Reduce the CTO's recurring operational meetings and tasks by a defined target within 90 days (e.g., 8+ hours/week reclaimed), measured against a baseline set in the first 30 days
  • Follow-Through – 90%+ of action items closed by their due date; 100% of overdue items escalated with a recommendation within 2 business days
  • Reporting Cadence – Weekly Technology status report delivered every Friday and monthly executive summary delivered by the 3rd business day; zero missed cycles per quarter
  • Vendor & Renewal Management – 100% of contract renewals surfaced to the CTO at least 60 days before term; zero unintended auto-renewals.

Most Important Things (MITs)

  • Nothing falls through the cracks: every commitment has an owner, a date and a status
  • The CTO's time goes to strategy and leadership, not operational follow-up
  • One source of truth for what Technology is working on, why, and where it stands
  • Proactive communication: stakeholders hear from you before they have to ask
  • Judgment on what to handle directly, what to escalate, and when

Power Digital’s people and culture are at the core of our success, which is why diversity in our team’s backgrounds and experiences are paramount. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who strive to make an impact inside and outside of the workplace. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.

Please be aware of fictitious job openings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers from suspicious sources. These engagements may be an attempt to obtain private information, or to induce you to pay a fee for services related to recruitment or training. Power Digital does NOT charge any application, processing, or training fee at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process. All genuine job openings will be posted on our careers page at https://powerdigitalmarketing.com/company/careers/. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any messaging behalf of Power Digital, please send us an email at recruiting@powerdigital.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

Source: Powerdigitalmarketing careers (Greenhouse)

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