Project Manager, Data

Setpoint•Austin, TX

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Setpoint is seeking a highly organized, execution-focused operator to join their team as a Project Manager, Data. This role is crucial for managing project boards, coordinating priorities and deadlines, supporting contractors, facilitating key operating meetings, and improving processes that connect teams and workstreams. The Project Manager will act as a central point of coordination, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, assigned, and supported by realistic timelines. They will also be responsible for identifying risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and recurring process issues. Success in this role means maintaining an accurate and trusted project board, ensuring clear priorities and ownership, early surfacing of delivery risks, productive meetings leading to decisions, enabling implementers to succeed, and fostering consistent processes and shared accountability among teams.

Requirements

Experience managing projects, programs, operations, or delivery across multiple teams and concurrent workstreams.
Strong working knowledge of project management practices and tools such as Linear, Asana, Jira, or similar platforms.
A track record of creating clear project plans, tickets, workflows, ownership structures, and documentation standards.
Experience monitoring deadlines, dependencies, risks, and team capacity in a fast-paced environment.
The ability to facilitate meetings that produce decisions, accountability, and measurable follow-through.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document decisions, requirements, risks, and action items.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and improving handoffs between different functions or areas of expertise.
Sound judgment when balancing urgency, scope, available resources, and competing priorities.
A continuous-improvement mindset and the ability to introduce operating discipline without creating unnecessary processes.
High attention to detail, strong follow-through, and a sense of ownership for keeping teams aligned and work moving forward.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain project and ticket management across teams and workstreams using Linear, Asana, and related communication tools.
Ensure work is captured in clear, actionable tickets with sufficient context, appropriate owners, cross-initiative priorities, dependencies, and realistic deadlines.
Monitor project progress, capacity, dependencies, and delivery risks, surfacing trade-offs when commitments, timelines, and available resources are not aligned.
Escalate bottlenecks and recommend ways to improve efficiency, throughput, team coordination, and quality of life.
Run project board reviews and other key operating meetings, ensuring the right stakeholders participate and discussions result in clear decisions.
Improve cross-functional coordination and handoffs so that work does not get lost, duplicated, or passed between teams without adequate context.
Monitor team capacity, identify staffing or coverage gaps, and recommend adjustments to scope, sequencing, timelines, or resources.
Identify recurring operational issues and continuously improve processes as the team and business needs evolve.