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# Project Manager, Permitting [Illinois] at Pulley

- **Company:** Pulley
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $120k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley/37977105-82af-4cc2-a087-3c1bfa224cf0

## Job description

## About Pulley

Pulley helps the country’s top architects, builders, and retailers speed up every project in their portfolio. With AI-powered permitting intelligence and expert guidance, we eliminate costly delays and bring predictability across the full lifecycle of commercial projects.

Today, permitting is the slowest, most uncertain part of building, spread across 19,000+ jurisdictions with different rules, timelines, and surprises. Pulley gives project teams the clarity and predictability they need to move from planning to opening without delays.

We support rollout programs for brands like J.Crew, Solidcore, and Hibbett Sports, as well as major data center buildouts, EV charging networks, and other commercial projects. Our platform dramatically reduces approval timelines, improves forecasting accuracy, and removes thousands of hours of manual work from design and construction teams.

Founded in 2021, Pulley combines deep permitting expertise with purpose-built AI from people who have created products used by millions. We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, Fifth Wall, and leaders from Plaid, Segment, ServiceTitan, and Procore.

## What You’ll Do

You must be located in Illinois to be considered for this role.

Project Managers are essential to success. As a Project Manager, you are the key link between clients and the intricate permitting landscape. Your work ensures that projects progress smoothly, overcoming regulatory hurdles, and collaborating with municipal officials to speed up approvals. Your expertise and proactive problem-solving directly impact project timelines, making you a critical part of our mission to transform construction.

In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping our permitting operations and work closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams to ensure continuous improvement in how we deliver results. Your contributions will help refine best practices and workflows, pushing the industry forward and enabling our clients to build faster and more effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

- Permitting Expertise: Gain a deep understanding of local permitting rules across various markets, focusing on streamlining complex processes.
- Advise Clients: Act as a trusted advisor, guiding clients through intricate approval processes to achieve fast and efficient outcomes.
- Collaborate with Municipalities: Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal staff, working together to accelerate approval times.
- Manage Projects: Oversee multiple permitting projects simultaneously, ensuring that each hits key milestones and moves swiftly to completion while anticipating and resolving potential permitting roadblocks, ensuring projects stay on track.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with internal teams from product, engineering, and leadership to continuously improve Pulley’s platform and enhance the client experience.

## Who You Are

- Professional Experience: 6+ years in architecture, construction, or permitting, with demonstrated involvement in various permitting processes.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong familiarity with local building codes, zoning regulations, and permitting processes.
- Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication abilities and talent for building strong relationships with clients and municipal officials.
- Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using relevant software tools and adaptable in learning new systems that enhance operational efficiency.
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or closely related field.

## About Pulley

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pulley makes permitting fast and predictable for commercial project teams, turning fragmented regulation into clear paths to approval.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed (seed funding raised in June 2022)
- **Founders**: Charlie Jacobson (CEO), Andreas Rotenberg (COO)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Construction technology / Permitting software
- **Target Customers**: B2B – commercial construction project teams (owners, developers, architects, GCs)
- **Mission**: Help project teams break ground faster by compressing permitting from months to minutes.

## Products & Services
- **[Pulley Permitting Platform]**: SaaS platform that unites project stakeholders for submitting, tracking, and responding to permit comments, verifying requirements across 19,000+ jurisdictions, and securing approvals faster. Includes AI-powered requirement verification and expert support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $4.4M (Seed round of $4.4M in June 2022 led by Susa Ventures; Series A led by CRV and Susa Ventures) – powers more than $12 billion in construction across all 50 states
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Susa Ventures, CRV; Customers include AutoZone, Starbucks, Prologis, JLL Design
- **Growth Signals**: 86 employees (+70% YoY), 20 active job postings, expanding into new states (NY, TX, CA, IL, etc.), and a 43.3% increase in LinkedIn followers over the past year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep jurisdictional knowledge**: Platform covers 19,000+ unique jurisdictions and learns from every project.
- **AI + human expertise**: Combines AI that adapts to local codes with a team of permitting experts.
- **Speed**: Aims to reduce permitting time from months to days – directly addresses a market where 80% of construction time is spent before breaking ground.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform across more U.S. jurisdictions.
- Continue hiring across engineering, product, permitting operations, and sales to support rapid growth.
- Build the infrastructure to make permitting a seamless, automated process for commercial projects.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of Quick (bias to action, urgency), Kind (empathy and honest feedback), Crafty (quality and clever problem-solving). Autonomy, context, and trust are emphasized.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – in-person optional in San Francisco and New York offices; remote-friendly.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision, flexible PTO, 401(k).
- **Team**: Small, focused team (~86 people) where individual contributions are visible; cross-functional collaboration with engineers, permitting experts, and operators.

## Sources
1. [withpulley.com/company](https://www.withpulley.com/company)
2. [withpulley.com/careers](https://www.withpulley.com/careers)
3. [builtin.com/company/pulley-withpulleycom](https://builtin.com/company/pulley-withpulleycom)
4. [linkedin.com/company/pulley-permitting](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulley-permitting)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley)

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