Founding Technical Project Manager Full Time NEW

Kruncher | Manhattan, New York | Four days in-office, no remote option | Reports directly to the CEO

A note on this role before you read further

This is a founding seat at a ten-person company. You will sit next to the CEO, four days a week, in our Manhattan office. You will help him run the operating side of the business while he focuses on customers, fundraising, and product direction. The next step, if you do this well, is Chief Operating Officer.

If you are not willing to be in New York City four days a week, this role is not for you. We are not negotiating relocation timelines, hybrid arrangements, or remote exceptions. The whole point of the seat is proximity to the CEO and to the team.

About Kruncher

Kruncher is the structured intelligence layer that serious private market investors use to see more, understand faster, and decide with confidence. Our customers include 14B USD Funds in Palo Alto, 4B USD Multi Family Office in Singapore, several mid size VC and PE, ADGM (the UAE financial center regulator), and other 30 custoemrs. We operate across three continents, serve venture capital and private equity as our core segments, and we are building toward a $10M business inside the next 24 months.

We are ten people. There is no customer success team. There is no operations team. There is no program management function. The CEO is doing most of this work today, in addition to running the company. That is why this seat exists.

What you will own

You are the operating spine of Kruncher across three surfaces.

Product delivery. Engineering, design, and data science work to a two-to-four-week release cadence. You run the rhythm: planning, standups across multiple timezones, unblocks, demos, and ship reviews. You own the translation layer between what business and design specify and what engineering actually builds. You catch the gaps before they reach production.

Customer onboarding and platform configuration, alongside the CEO. Every new customer goes through Kruncher’s 30-60-90 day adoption plan: thesis capture, deal score configuration, signal rules, dashboards, memo templates, CRM and document storage integrations. The CEO runs this today. You will take it off his plate, piece by piece, and eventually run it. PE and VC workflows differ; you will learn both well enough to configure the platform for either one.

Cross-functional execution. Marketing campaigns, partnership launches, sales enablement, conference logistics, GTM moments. If it requires more than one person to ship, you coordinate it.

Operating tooling. JIRA, Confluence, Linear, Notion, our CRM, our internal automations. You keep the operating system of the company clean, current, and trusted.

Automation as leverage. You will use AI, low-code, and no-code tooling aggressively to scale your own throughput and the team’s. We expect every process you touch to come out faster, more measurable, and harder to break than how you found it.

The reality of a ten-person company

Read this section before applying.

• There is no playbook waiting for you. You will write it as you go.
• You will own things outside any prior job description, including things you have never done before.
• Priorities shift inside a week. Sometimes inside a day. Adaptability is not a stated preference. It is the job.
• The release cadence is two to four weeks. We adopt new technology with a two-to-four-week gap from release. The pace is faster than most companies are comfortable with.
• The hours are not 9 to 5. We are not asking you to burn out. We are telling you the people who thrive here are energized by ownership, decision speed, and weekly delivery, not by predictable boundaries.
• We are building toward a $10M business in less than 24 months. That target shapes every week.

If the description above sounds exhausting, it is the wrong role. If it sounds like exactly the environment you have been looking for, keep reading.

Who you are

• Recent MBA from a strong program, with roughly five years of pre-MBA experience in software, technology, or management consulting.
• IT consulting backgrounds (Accenture, Deloitte Digital, BCG and Bain digital practices, or equivalents) are a strong fit. Our CEO came from Accenture’s banking transformation work, so the language and operating posture will be familiar.
• Hands-on understanding of frontend and backend systems, and of information systems architecture in general. You do not write production code, but you understand the stack well enough to challenge estimates, spot debt, and ask sharp questions about scope.
• Fluent with low-code and no-code tooling. Zapier, Make, n8n, Retool, Airtable, Notion automations, direct use of LLM APIs. You build internal tools when buying them is slower.
• Experienced with JIRA, Confluence, Linear, or equivalents. You have run releases, written tickets engineers respect, managed cross-team dependencies, and closed loops.
• Comfortable across timezones. Our team and customers span the US, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Your calendar will reflect that.
• Outcome-driven and accountable. You commit to weekly delivery and you follow through. Things close. They do not drift.
• Genuinely ambitious. You see this role as the fastest path you can take into senior operating leadership at a venture-backed company.
• Comfortable with private markets vocabulary, or willing to be fluent in it inside a quarter.

What this role is not

This is not a Scrum Master role. It is not a project coordinator. It is not a seat for someone who needs a stable backlog, a quarterly planning cycle, and clear lines between functions. Kruncher is in the early scaling phase, the cadence is fast, and the operating environment will keep changing as the company doubles. If predictability is what you need from your work, this is the wrong seat.

Career path

If you perform in this role, the next title is Chief Operating Officer. We are not vaguely open to that path. It is the path the seat is designed to produce. We expect the trajectory to take 18 to 24 months, in line with the company hitting its $10M milestone.

Logistics

• Location: Manhattan (49th Street, between JP Morgan and Lazard), four days in-person. The fifth day is flexible. No remote, no hybrid above this. Relocation is your responsibility.
• Reports to: the CEO. Your desk is next to his.
• Base salary: $6,000 to $10,000 per month ($72,000 to $120,000 annual base), depending on experience. Most candidates will start in the lower half of the band and earn into the top half through performance.
• Equity: meaningful founding-employee stock options. Specifics discussed at the second interview.
• Start date: as soon as the right person is identified.
• You might be asked to do one to five days of paid trial in the role
• Background check
  

How to apply

• Send a short note to [francesco@kruncher.ai] explaining in less than 250 words why you are good fit and which skills you will need to learn. We do not need a cover letter. We need evidence.