Senior Project Manager — Connecting Global Artists, Technologists, and Reform Leaders at San Quentin SkunkWorks

Join the incarcerated-led innovation lab partnering with the Governor’s Office, eL Seed, FaithXLVII, UC researchers, and other visionaries to coordinate the systems, people, and projects shaping the future of justice reform.

Why This Matters

San Quentin SkunkWorks is changing how reform happens — bringing artists, engineers, creators, and policy leaders inside prison walls to co-create the future of justice.

The work is bold and complex. Multiple initiatives run in parallel across art, technology, research, policy, media, and culture change. Senior project management is the force that keeps that ecosystem aligned.

You’ll support incarcerated innovators collaborating with top-tier professionals across the country. When projects run smoothly, the work accelerates — and the system changes faster.

Each initiative is guided by cross-functional teams — and you may manage one or more depending on your expertise and capacity.

The Work

• SkunkWorks is executing several high-impact initiatives at once, including:
• Large-scale art projects with artists like eL Seed, Zio Ziegler, and FaithXLVII
• Transformative Recreation events drawing 150+ participants and cross-agency partners
• leadership development and capacity-building for incarcerated teams
• policy and research collaborations with CDCR and university partners
• software engineering and digital infrastructure projects
• narrative, media, and outreach work across press, PR, and storytelling
• grant writing, development, and external partnerships
• graphic design and creative production supporting all program areas

You’ll help create the project systems and coordination that allow this model to scale across other facilities statewide.

Your Role

You will:

• Build and maintain project plans, schedules, dependencies, and workflows in Monday.com
• Coordinate timelines and priorities across one or more of the following teams, depending on your expertise and capacity:
• Grant Writing, Media & Outreach, Graphic Design, Software Engineering, Leadership Development, Transformative Recreation, or the Chiaroscuro mural project
• Keep cross-boundary teams aligned — incarcerated leaders, outside experts, staff partners, and institutional stakeholders
• Translate strategy into clear, actionable steps and measurable milestones
• Standardize workflows that become part of SkunkWorks’ scalable model
• Create communication pathways that keep contributors informed and engaged
• Identify friction early and remove it before it slows progress
• Support inside team leaders in building project management capacity
• Maintain clean documentation and keep Monday.com boards updated weekly
• This is a senior volunteer role — you’ll be working directly with professionals at the top of their fields and the incarcerated innovators driving some of the most ambitious justice reform work in the country.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• 5+ years of project management experience (creative, tech, policy, nonprofit, or cross-disciplinary)
• Expert-level Monday.com skills — automation, dashboards, custom workflows, dependencies
• Strong communication and facilitation with diverse, cross-functional teams
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects at once
• Experience working with senior stakeholders
• Strong systems thinking and exceptional organizational habits
• Comfort working independently with minimal instruction
• Based in the United States

Nice to Have

• Based in the bay area
• Experience with creative production, tech, policy development, media, or community-based projects
• Background working with distributed or cross-boundary teams
• Familiarity with justice reform, human-centered design, or org development