Hire Remote Technical Project Managers (TPMs)

Hire Technical Project Managers Who Speak Engineering and Business Fluently

Technical programs fail at the seam between engineering and leadership. The architecture decision nobody documented. The inter-service dependency that wasn’t in the project plan. The performance budget that was never agreed. Technical Project Managers exist to close that gap — they understand the engineering deeply enough to catch these problems before they become crises.

We match you with senior TPMs who’ve managed large-scale platform migrations, multi-service API programs, infrastructure modernization efforts, and cross-team engineering initiatives at Fortune 500 companies and high-growth technology companies. Engineers-turned-PMs who can review an architecture diagram, challenge a technical timeline, and translate both directions fluently.

Start in days, not months. Pay 50% less than equivalent US-based TPM talent.

What Our Technical Project Managers Deliver

Large-Scale Technical Programs

Platform migrations, monolith decompositions, API redesigns, infrastructure modernization, and data platform builds — programs with significant technical complexity where a non-technical PM would consistently miss critical dependencies.

Cross-Team Engineering Coordination

Managing engineering work across 5–20+ engineering teams: API contracts, shared service dependencies, data model agreements, release train coordination, and technical RFC review processes.

Technical Risk Management

Identifying and quantifying technical risks: cascading dependency failures, scalability bottlenecks, security implications of architectural decisions, and the technical debt implications of schedule pressure. Bringing engineers and executives to the same table with shared facts.

Architecture Review & Technical Decision Tracking

Running architecture review boards, documenting technical decisions (ADRs), tracking design debt, and ensuring engineering teams have the context to make consistent decisions at pace.

Engineering Metrics & Delivery Analytics

DORA metrics, cycle time analysis, deployment frequency, and change failure rate tracking — the quantitative basis for delivery improvement conversations that go beyond “we need to go faster.”

TPM Methodology & Tools

Engineering Background: Typically 5–10 years as a software engineer before transitioning to TPM

Methodologies: Agile at scale (SAFe, LeSS), technical RFC processes, ADR frameworks, OKRs

Tools: Jira, Linear, Confluence, GitHub Issues, Notion, Lucidchart, Miro, DORA dashboards

Technical Domains: Distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, API design, data engineering, mobile platforms

Certifications: PMP, CSM, AWS/GCP Solutions Architect (varies by engineer)

Client Success Story: Multi-Cloud Migration — $200M Infrastructure Program, On Time

A global enterprise running critical workloads on a single cloud provider needed to achieve multi-cloud redundancy for regulatory compliance and resilience requirements. The program involved 340+ services, 47 engineering teams, and a non-negotiable 18-month deadline. Our TPM designed the migration wave architecture, built the dependency mapping process that identified 2,300 inter-service dependencies (400 of which had not been previously documented), established the go/no-go criteria for each migration wave, and ran the weekly cross-functional migration review. 18 months. 340 services. Zero production incidents during migration cutovers. Budget: 96% of plan.

Client Success Story: API Platform Rebuild — Backward Compatibility for 800 Enterprise Customers

A B2B SaaS company needed to redesign its core public API — breaking changes were necessary for long-term scalability, but 800 enterprise customers with custom integrations couldn’t be disrupted. Our TPM managed the entire transition: API versioning strategy, a customer migration toolkit with automated compatibility testing, a 12-month deprecation communication program, a self-service migration dashboard showing per-customer migration status, and a migration engineering support program for enterprise customers needing hands-on help. 98.7% of enterprise customers migrated before the deprecation deadline. Tier 1 support tickets related to the API transition: zero after migration completion.

Why Companies Choose Our TPMs

• Engineering credibility: They’ve been engineers — they can review a technical design, challenge an estimate, and catch a missed dependency before it becomes a crisis
• Business translation: They communicate technical complexity to executives in business terms — risk, cost, timeline, and trade-offs
• Scale experience: They’ve managed programs with 10+ engineering teams, multi-year timelines, and multi-million-dollar budgets
• 50% cost savings: Senior TPM expertise at a fraction of US market rates
• Fast start: Most engagements begin within 1–2 weeks

Engagement Models

• Individual TPM — One senior TPM driving a specific technical program or managing cross-team coordination for a complex initiative.
• TPM + Technical Program Office — Multiple TPMs with standardized program management processes for organizations running several simultaneous large-scale technical programs.
• Embedded TPM — A TPM embedded in a specific product or platform team, providing ongoing delivery and coordination support.
• Contract-to-Hire — Evaluate a TPM’s program management approach on a real initiative before committing long-term.

How To Vet Technical Project Managers

Our vetting identifies TPMs who have genuine engineering depth — not just PMs who’ve added “Technical” to their title.

1. Engineering background assessment — We verify actual software engineering experience: languages, systems built, scale. TPMs without genuine engineering backgrounds can’t do the job. Over 90% of TPM candidates do not pass our combined technical + program management screening.
2. Technical depth interview — Walk us through an architecture they managed. What were the technical risks? What dependencies were almost missed? What would they do differently? We probe for genuine technical understanding.
3. Program management interview — Given a complex multi-team program scenario, how do they structure it? What artifacts do they create? How do they surface and manage technical risk to executive stakeholders?
4. Communication screening — TPMs must communicate effectively in both directions: with engineers who’ll dismiss them if they’re not credible, and with executives who need clarity without technical weeds.

What to Look for When Hiring Technical Project Managers

Strong TPMs are credible to engineers and translatable to executives simultaneously.

What strong candidates demonstrate:

• They’ve done hands-on engineering work — they can describe specific technical systems they built, design decisions they made, and what they learned from production incidents
• They surface technical risk in quantitative terms: probability of occurrence, timeline impact, cost of mitigation vs. cost of failure
• They produce actionable artifacts — dependency maps, ADRs, RACI matrices — not just status reports and meeting notes
• They push back on engineering teams when estimates are unrealistic and push back on executives when scope or timeline is technically infeasible

Red flags to watch for:

• Can’t describe any hands-on engineering work with specifics — “I worked with engineers” is not an engineering background
• Measures program success only by on-time and on-budget without any engineering quality metrics
• Process-focused without outcomes: can describe every artifact they produce but can’t describe a program they saved or a risk they caught early
• No distributed team experience — essential for modern engineering organizations

Interview questions that reveal real depth:

• “Tell me about a technical risk you identified on a program that the engineering team hadn’t flagged. How did you identify it and what happened?”
• “Walk me through how you’d manage the API contract process for a program with 12 engineering teams building services that depend on each other.”
• “How do you communicate a 3-month schedule slip to a C-suite that has committed publicly to a Q3 launch? Walk me through your approach.”

Related Services

• Project & Program Managers — Full-spectrum project and program management across all roles.
• Project Managers — Delivery-focused PMs for programs that don’t require deep technical engineering background.
• Program Managers — Strategic program managers who coordinate portfolios of related initiatives.
• DevOps & SRE Engineers — The infrastructure engineers whose work TPMs often coordinate on platform and cloud programs.

Want to Hire Remote Technical Project Managers?

We source, vet, and place senior TPMs who’ve managed complex engineering programs — engineers-turned-PMs who understand the technical substance of what they’re managing, not just the schedule. Whether you need one TPM or a full technical program management office, we make it fast, affordable, and low-risk.

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