Project Manager

📍 Bangalore, Hybrid 🕒 Full-time

Help us redefine how platforms get built
At Commutatus, we build platforms fast, thoughtfully, and with a strong sense of ownership.

Since 2015, we’ve helped organisations across 20+ industries take ideas from concept to launch. Our clients trust us because we understand the bigger picture, move quickly, and care about the quality of what we deliver.

We’re looking for a Project Manager who can bring clarity to complex projects, work confidently with clients and teams, and help us deliver great products without chaos.

Is this you?
Do you enjoy taking unclear requirements and turning them into a clear plan?
Can you keep clients, developers, designers, QA, and leadership aligned?
Are you comfortable managing timelines, scope, priorities, budgets, and expectations?
Can you lead a project with confidence, especially when things are moving fast or not fully defined?
If yes, this role could be a great fit.

About Commutatus
Commutatus is a digital product studio that builds custom platforms for startups, corporates, social organisations, and growing businesses worldwide. We’ve worked with organisations like AIESEC, Rajasthan Royals, and many others to build CRMs, LMS platforms, mobile apps, internal tools, analytics systems, and AI-powered workflows.

Our vision is to bring tomorrow closer to today. We do this by understanding our clients’ goals, thinking beyond just requirements, and becoming their trusted tech partner.

Our in-house framework, Catalyst, helps us build scalable platforms and features in days rather than weeks or months. It’s not uncommon for us to brainstorm a platform on Monday and have it live by Friday.

About the role
As a Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for driving software projects from planning to delivery.

This is not just a coordination role. You’ll be expected to manage clients, teams, project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and delivery quality.

You may not always have a team formally reporting to you, but you will still need strong leadership skills. You’ll lead through clarity, communication, follow-up, decision-making, and accountability.

Your job will be to make sure everyone knows what needs to happen, why it matters, who owns it, and what moves next.

What you’ll do
Own project execution

• Understand client requirements, business goals, and product expectations
• Convert discussions and requirements into clear tasks for the team
• Create project plans, sprint plans, timelines, and delivery checklists
• Track progress across design, development, QA, UAT, and release
• Keep project documentation and task boards organised in our internal task management system
• Spot and raise risks before they become bigger problems

Lead teams with clarity

• Work closely with developers, designers, QA, and internal stakeholders
• Keep everyone aligned on priorities, timelines, and expectations
• Run or support sprint planning, reviews, demos, and retrospectives
• Follow up consistently without micromanaging
• Unblock the team when requirements, decisions, or priorities are unclear
• Support Assistant Project Managers or junior team members when needed

Manage client communication

• Lead and support client calls as needed
• Turn conversations into clear action items and next steps
• Share structured updates with clients and leadership
• Manage expectations around scope, timelines, dependencies, budgets, and delays
• Ask the right questions when something is unclear
• Maintain trust throughout

Keep delivery under control

• Keep project information clean, visible, and up to date
• Track scope, budgets, timelines, bugs, feedback, and pending decisions
• Keep the backlog items prioritised and ready for execution
• Coordinate testing, release readiness, and handover
• Ensure nothing falls through the cracks

What we’re looking for

• Strong ownership, leadership, attention to detail, and follow-up discipline
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Confident in managing clients and internal teams
• Strong documentation and task breakdown skills
• Comfortable with internal tools, task management systems, Google Sheets, Notion, or similar
  platforms
• Able to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities
• Good understanding of software projects and digital products
• Able to balance scope, timelines, quality, and budgets

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of experience in project management, software delivery, product coordination, or similar roles
• Experience managing clients, teams, or cross-functional project execution
• Experience working on software, websites, internal tools, platforms, or digital products
• Strong comfort with client communication and project documentation
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, office-based environment
• Bonus if you’ve worked in a software agency, product studio, startup, or service company

Why you’ll enjoy working here

• You’ll work closely with leadership: You’ll get direct exposure to founders, senior leaders, and -
  decision-makers, and see how product, delivery, clients, and business decisions come together.
• You’ll work on meaningful products: Our projects cut across industries, geographies, and problem
  statements. You could be working on a CRM, LMS, analytics platform, internal tool, AI workflow, or mobile-first product, depending on the project.
• You’ll learn how platforms are built end-to-end: You’ll be involved from requirement discovery and
  planning to execution, testing, release, and client handover.
• You’ll move fast, but thoughtfully: We like building quickly, but not at the cost of quality, user value, or delivery discipline.
• You’ll be trusted to take ownership: We’re a lean team with few layers. People are trusted to take responsibility, solve problems, and move things forward.
• You’ll have room to grow: This role can grow into delivery leadership, product management, client strategy, business operations, or account ownership, depending on where you shine.
• You’ll be heard: If you see a better way, we’re all ears. We’re always looking to improve how we work and are happy to support internal improvement projects that carry weight.

This role is a good fit if you

• Like taking ownership
• Enjoy leading people and projects
• Can manage both details and the bigger picture
• Are comfortable speaking to clients
• Can bring calm and structure to chaos
• Care about delivering quality work, not just closing tasks
• Like working in a fast-moving environment where things evolve