Project Manager (Contract)
Project Manager (Contract)
About Gauge
Gauge is rolling out a new human-first, AI-powered research capability. We are in early commercialization, with pilots running across major brands. The product is live, the engineering team is small and building fast, and we need someone to own execution across product, engineering coordination, and go-to-market readiness
What You'll Own
Development Management
Translate strategic priorities into clearly scoped development tasks with acceptance criteria and timelines.
Run sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives (or whatever lightweight process fits a small team).
Maintain a living product roadmap and ensure the team is working on the highest-impact items.
Track and unblock dependencies. Be the person who notices when something is stalled before it becomes a problem.
Serve as the primary point of coordination between the Managing Director and the engineering team (in-house developer, plus external agency)
Security, Compliance, and Data Governance
Own the operational side of client-facing compliance work: data protection impact assessments, security questionnaires, governance documentation, and responsible AI assessments.
Coordinate with the engineering team to ensure technical claims in compliance documents are accurate and current.
Maintain a single source of truth for security and data handling documentation — ensuring consistency across all client-facing materials.
Track compliance roadmap items (e.g., SOC 2 Type I certification) and keep them moving.
Stay current on GDPR, data protection, and AI governance requirements relevant to the product.
Quality Assurance and Testing
Define and maintain a QA process for new features and releases. This doesn't mean you're the sole tester — it means you own the process and ensure nothing ships without appropriate validation.
Build and maintain test plans for core platform workflows: survey creation, consent flows, data ingestion, profile interactions, and client-facing conversational interface.
Coordinate user acceptance testing with internal stakeholders before client-facing releases.
Own the bug triage process — prioritize, assign, and track resolution.
Demo and Client Readiness
Prepare and maintain demo environments for client presentations and sales conversations.
Build demo scripts and talk tracks that showcase the product's capabilities for different audiences (marketing teams, insights teams, procurement/compliance).
Ensure the demo environment reflects current product capabilities and is free of bugs or stale data.
Support the Managing Director in client-facing meetings by preparing materials, anticipating technical questions, and providing backup on product details.
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Maintain internal product documentation: feature specs, architecture decisions, data flow diagrams, and API documentation.
Keep client-facing materials (security docs, data handling summaries, platform overviews) updated as the product evolves.
Create and maintain onboarding materials for new team members or stakeholders.
Product Operations (The "Everything Else")
Monitor platform health and usage patterns. Flag issues before clients notice them.
Manage the feedback loop: capture client feedback, synthesize it into actionable insights, and ensure it informs the roadmap.
Coordinate cross-functional work that doesn't have a clear owner — if it falls between engineering, sales, and strategy, it's yours.
Identify process gaps and build lightweight systems to fill them. The goal is a team that can operate smoothly without the founder in every conversation.
What Success Looks Like at Month 3
The product is high functioning in the hands of our pilot customers.
The Managing Director is no longer the first person to hear about development blockers, bug reports, or documentation gaps.
Compliance and security documentation has a single owner and a clear update process — no more conflicting information across documents.
There is a defined QA process and nothing ships to clients without going through it.
Demo environments are always ready and up to date.
The engineering team has clear priorities, realistic timelines, and a predictable rhythm.
The Managing Director's time is spent on strategy, partnerships, and business development — not in Slack threads about deployment details.
Who You Are
3–5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS or data/AI product environment.
You've worked with small engineering teams (2–5 engineers) and are comfortable being hands-on. This is not a role where you write PRDs and hand them off — you'll be in the codebase reading pull requests, testing features yourself, and writing bug reports with screenshots.
You understand data privacy and compliance at a working level. You don't need to be a lawyer, but you should be able to read a DPIA, spot inconsistencies in security documentation, and hold an informed conversation about GDPR consent mechanisms.
You're organized to the point of being slightly annoying about it. You track things, follow up, and close loops.
You communicate clearly in writing. Much of this role involves translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and producing client-facing documents that are precise and professional.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. This is an early-stage product, and the role will evolve as the business does. You should be energized by that, not frustrated by it.
Nice to Have
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GCS, IAM, Vertex AI / Gemini).
Familiarity with market research, consumer insights, or panel-based methodologies.
Experience preparing for SOC 2 audits or managing compliance programs.
Background in AI/ML products, particularly LLM-based applications.
Logistics
Remote role; availability during US Eastern business hours preferred.
3-month initial engagement with defined success metrics. Extension contingent on milestone achievement and mutual fit.
Competitive contract rate commensurate with experience.
To Apply
Please send a brief note covering: (1) your relevant experience, (2) an example of a time you took a product from operational chaos to a repeatable process, and (3) your availability and rate expectations.
About Gauge
Gauge is rolling out a new human-first, AI-powered research capability. We are in early commercialization, with pilots running across major brands. The product is live, the engineering team is small and building fast, and we need someone to own execution across product, engineering coordination, and go-to-market readiness
What You'll Own
Development Management
Translate strategic priorities into clearly scoped development tasks with acceptance criteria and timelines.
Run sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives (or whatever lightweight process fits a small team).
Maintain a living product roadmap and ensure the team is working on the highest-impact items.
Track and unblock dependencies. Be the person who notices when something is stalled before it becomes a problem.
Serve as the primary point of coordination between the Managing Director and the engineering team (in-house developer, plus external agency)
Security, Compliance, and Data Governance
Own the operational side of client-facing compliance work: data protection impact assessments, security questionnaires, governance documentation, and responsible AI assessments.
Coordinate with the engineering team to ensure technical claims in compliance documents are accurate and current.
Maintain a single source of truth for security and data handling documentation — ensuring consistency across all client-facing materials.
Track compliance roadmap items (e.g., SOC 2 Type I certification) and keep them moving.
Stay current on GDPR, data protection, and AI governance requirements relevant to the product.
Quality Assurance and Testing
Define and maintain a QA process for new features and releases. This doesn't mean you're the sole tester — it means you own the process and ensure nothing ships without appropriate validation.
Build and maintain test plans for core platform workflows: survey creation, consent flows, data ingestion, profile interactions, and client-facing conversational interface.
Coordinate user acceptance testing with internal stakeholders before client-facing releases.
Own the bug triage process — prioritize, assign, and track resolution.
Demo and Client Readiness
Prepare and maintain demo environments for client presentations and sales conversations.
Build demo scripts and talk tracks that showcase the product's capabilities for different audiences (marketing teams, insights teams, procurement/compliance).
Ensure the demo environment reflects current product capabilities and is free of bugs or stale data.
Support the Managing Director in client-facing meetings by preparing materials, anticipating technical questions, and providing backup on product details.
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Maintain internal product documentation: feature specs, architecture decisions, data flow diagrams, and API documentation.
Keep client-facing materials (security docs, data handling summaries, platform overviews) updated as the product evolves.
Create and maintain onboarding materials for new team members or stakeholders.
Product Operations (The "Everything Else")
Monitor platform health and usage patterns. Flag issues before clients notice them.
Manage the feedback loop: capture client feedback, synthesize it into actionable insights, and ensure it informs the roadmap.
Coordinate cross-functional work that doesn't have a clear owner — if it falls between engineering, sales, and strategy, it's yours.
Identify process gaps and build lightweight systems to fill them. The goal is a team that can operate smoothly without the founder in every conversation.
What Success Looks Like at Month 3
The product is high functioning in the hands of our pilot customers.
The Managing Director is no longer the first person to hear about development blockers, bug reports, or documentation gaps.
Compliance and security documentation has a single owner and a clear update process — no more conflicting information across documents.
There is a defined QA process and nothing ships to clients without going through it.
Demo environments are always ready and up to date.
The engineering team has clear priorities, realistic timelines, and a predictable rhythm.
The Managing Director's time is spent on strategy, partnerships, and business development — not in Slack threads about deployment details.
Who You Are
3–5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS or data/AI product environment.
You've worked with small engineering teams (2–5 engineers) and are comfortable being hands-on. This is not a role where you write PRDs and hand them off — you'll be in the codebase reading pull requests, testing features yourself, and writing bug reports with screenshots.
You understand data privacy and compliance at a working level. You don't need to be a lawyer, but you should be able to read a DPIA, spot inconsistencies in security documentation, and hold an informed conversation about GDPR consent mechanisms.
You're organized to the point of being slightly annoying about it. You track things, follow up, and close loops.
You communicate clearly in writing. Much of this role involves translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and producing client-facing documents that are precise and professional.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. This is an early-stage product, and the role will evolve as the business does. You should be energized by that, not frustrated by it.
Nice to Have
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GCS, IAM, Vertex AI / Gemini).
Familiarity with market research, consumer insights, or panel-based methodologies.
Experience preparing for SOC 2 audits or managing compliance programs.
Background in AI/ML products, particularly LLM-based applications.
Logistics
Remote role; availability during US Eastern business hours preferred.
3-month initial engagement with defined success metrics. Extension contingent on milestone achievement and mutual fit.
Competitive contract rate commensurate with experience.
To Apply
Please send a brief note covering: (1) your relevant experience, (2) an example of a time you took a product from operational chaos to a repeatable process, and (3) your availability and rate expectations.
About Gauge
Gauge is rolling out a new human-first, AI-powered research capability. We are in early commercialization, with pilots running across major brands. The product is live, the engineering team is small and building fast, and we need someone to own execution across product, engineering coordination, and go-to-market readiness
What You'll Own
Development Management
Translate strategic priorities into clearly scoped development tasks with acceptance criteria and timelines.
Run sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives (or whatever lightweight process fits a small team).
Maintain a living product roadmap and ensure the team is working on the highest-impact items.
Track and unblock dependencies. Be the person who notices when something is stalled before it becomes a problem.
Serve as the primary point of coordination between the Managing Director and the engineering team (in-house developer, plus external agency)
Security, Compliance, and Data Governance
Own the operational side of client-facing compliance work: data protection impact assessments, security questionnaires, governance documentation, and responsible AI assessments.
Coordinate with the engineering team to ensure technical claims in compliance documents are accurate and current.
Maintain a single source of truth for security and data handling documentation — ensuring consistency across all client-facing materials.
Track compliance roadmap items (e.g., SOC 2 Type I certification) and keep them moving.
Stay current on GDPR, data protection, and AI governance requirements relevant to the product.
Quality Assurance and Testing
Define and maintain a QA process for new features and releases. This doesn't mean you're the sole tester — it means you own the process and ensure nothing ships without appropriate validation.
Build and maintain test plans for core platform workflows: survey creation, consent flows, data ingestion, profile interactions, and client-facing conversational interface.
Coordinate user acceptance testing with internal stakeholders before client-facing releases.
Own the bug triage process — prioritize, assign, and track resolution.
Demo and Client Readiness
Prepare and maintain demo environments for client presentations and sales conversations.
Build demo scripts and talk tracks that showcase the product's capabilities for different audiences (marketing teams, insights teams, procurement/compliance).
Ensure the demo environment reflects current product capabilities and is free of bugs or stale data.
Support the Managing Director in client-facing meetings by preparing materials, anticipating technical questions, and providing backup on product details.
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Maintain internal product documentation: feature specs, architecture decisions, data flow diagrams, and API documentation.
Keep client-facing materials (security docs, data handling summaries, platform overviews) updated as the product evolves.
Create and maintain onboarding materials for new team members or stakeholders.
Product Operations (The "Everything Else")
Monitor platform health and usage patterns. Flag issues before clients notice them.
Manage the feedback loop: capture client feedback, synthesize it into actionable insights, and ensure it informs the roadmap.
Coordinate cross-functional work that doesn't have a clear owner — if it falls between engineering, sales, and strategy, it's yours.
Identify process gaps and build lightweight systems to fill them. The goal is a team that can operate smoothly without the founder in every conversation.
What Success Looks Like at Month 3
The product is high functioning in the hands of our pilot customers.
The Managing Director is no longer the first person to hear about development blockers, bug reports, or documentation gaps.
Compliance and security documentation has a single owner and a clear update process — no more conflicting information across documents.
There is a defined QA process and nothing ships to clients without going through it.
Demo environments are always ready and up to date.
The engineering team has clear priorities, realistic timelines, and a predictable rhythm.
The Managing Director's time is spent on strategy, partnerships, and business development — not in Slack threads about deployment details.
Who You Are
3–5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS or data/AI product environment.
You've worked with small engineering teams (2–5 engineers) and are comfortable being hands-on. This is not a role where you write PRDs and hand them off — you'll be in the codebase reading pull requests, testing features yourself, and writing bug reports with screenshots.
You understand data privacy and compliance at a working level. You don't need to be a lawyer, but you should be able to read a DPIA, spot inconsistencies in security documentation, and hold an informed conversation about GDPR consent mechanisms.
You're organized to the point of being slightly annoying about it. You track things, follow up, and close loops.
You communicate clearly in writing. Much of this role involves translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and producing client-facing documents that are precise and professional.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. This is an early-stage product, and the role will evolve as the business does. You should be energized by that, not frustrated by it.
Nice to Have
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GCS, IAM, Vertex AI / Gemini).
Familiarity with market research, consumer insights, or panel-based methodologies.
Experience preparing for SOC 2 audits or managing compliance programs.
Background in AI/ML products, particularly LLM-based applications.
Logistics
Remote role; availability during US Eastern business hours preferred.
3-month initial engagement with defined success metrics. Extension contingent on milestone achievement and mutual fit.
Competitive contract rate commensurate with experience.
To Apply
Please send a brief note covering: (1) your relevant experience, (2) an example of a time you took a product from operational chaos to a repeatable process, and (3) your availability and rate expectations.