Job Description
We're hiring an Execution Lead (cross-functional PM) to keep the company executing as a unified system — not a pile of parallel work streams.
Summary
- Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.
- Flexible Time: Full-time, part-time, side-gig (off-hours), or fractional (contract).
- Flexible Commitment: Short-term, long-term, or intermittent.
Why so flexible? We're a funded startup racing to launch in a few months. Jump in to help us ship, then stay or go — a strong launch creates room for permanent roles. We also value long-term side-gig relationships; a few expert hours often beat full-time ramp-up.
About Us
We're a funded, remote-first startup led by a serial technical founder, with a ~30-person team. The product in private alpha launching soon. More at list-lab.org.
About The Role
Cross department operations-minded project manager: you keep work moving, make priority, status, ownership, scope, and delivery dates legible with low friction, and manage expectations so leadership and ICs share one reality.
You report directly to the CEO and partner daily with engineering, marketing, product, and GTM leads on plans, compromises, and delivery. You surface handoffs, dependencies, and escalation paths before they become crises — using milestones, critical-path thinking, RAID, and lightweight change control (scope/date shifts get recorded and communicated, not side-channel whispers).
You are technically literate, a digital native, and hands-on with AI for planning, comms, and synthesis — with judgment on accuracy, confidentiality, and sign-off.
You are not a passive coordinator or process monitor. You are a hands on operator turning vague asks into clear directives, facilitating stuck decisions, and following through. You are a force-multiplier and catalyst for progress.
Scope you don’t own:
- product strategy / roadmap calls
- people management for other functions
- code or design approval
Scope you do own:
- execution clarity
- timelines
- stakeholder communication
- knowledge sharing & alignment
- steer the right information to the right people at the right time, and routing blockers to the right decision-maker
What Success Looks Like in 30 Days
- Teams express clarity and confidence in who is doing what by when
- Top initiatives have honest status in one place, with a lightweight RAID/issues habit and clean escalations
- Kickoffs / decision forums and a few templates (decision log, exec rollup) have cut thrash
What You'll Do
- You help catalog, structure, and assign ownership to new ideas that emerge through RACI/DACI-style clarity.
- Adapt and improve upon existing processes and systems adding lightweight rituals and tools as needed so departments stay organized without drag
- Run cross-functional delivery — explicit handoffs across engineering, marketing, product, GTM, ops; nothing waits on “someone should…”
- Plan and visualize — milestones, dependencies, critical path; Gantt/roadmap-style views when they help alignment
- Clear blockers and risks early — missing inputs, conflicts, externals; escalate with tradeoffs when leadership must decide
- Facilitate planning and decision meetings; keep them outcome-oriented
- Operating rhythm — agendas, async updates, retros/postmortems when useful; documentation that outlasts the meeting
- Vendors/tooling — coordinate outside help and sensible tool onboarding where it speeds the org
- AI + stack — accelerate docs, plans, and comms; protect quality and sensitive info
What We're Looking For
Must have
- Mid-senior experience (5+ years) in PM, program, or ops execution in fast, ambiguous environments
- Startup/high-growth comfort
- Highly organized — you model systems others can actually follow
- Technical literacy — tickets/specs, high-level eng/product discussion, sharp questions
- Remote stack fluency for async collaboration e.g. Slack, Notion, Linear/Jira, ClickUp
Nice to have
- Software developer/engineering experience (you are not here to ship product code)
- Product management experience
- Agencies, vendors, fractional coordination