Senior Technical Project Manager

Buzz Solutions

About The Position

Buzz Solutions is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to join its PMO and lead complex, cross-functional technical programs across ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform, and Solutions Engineering. The role owns initiatives end to end, spanning product development, model delivery, system infrastructure, and enterprise customer deployments. The position requires turning ambiguity into actionable plans, aligning teams, and delivering work on time and within scope. The role works at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. It includes managing project execution, improving PMO practices and tools, coordinating customer deployments, and strengthening processes for incident reviews and continuous improvement. Buzz Solutions builds AI-based software and predictive analytics for inspecting and maintaining power lines and energy infrastructure, with the goal of reducing inspection costs, preventing outages and wildfires, and helping utilities manage their assets.

Requirements

At least 6 years of technical project or program management experience, including delivery of complex software or ML/AI products.
Proven experience managing cross-functional technical programs with software, infrastructure, and/or ML engineering teams.
Willingness to travel 10%.
Strong command of project management and agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or equivalent.
Technical fluency to discuss software architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and ML/data workflows, challenge estimates, and understand trade-offs.
Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to influence without authority and align engineers, product teams, and business leaders.
Exceptional organizational, communication, and risk-management skills.
Demonstrated ability to bring structure and predictability to fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

Own program and project delivery across Engineering (ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform) and Solutions teams, from planning and scoping through execution, launch, and retrospective.
Build and maintain project plans, roadmaps, and timelines; identify critical paths, dependencies, and risks across concurrent initiatives.
Drive cross-functional alignment among Engineering, Product, Solutions Engineering, QA, and Customer Success on scope, priorities, and status.
Run agile and project processes, including sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, and help standardize practices across teams.
Establish and improve PMO processes, standards, and tooling, including Jira workflows, reporting, intake, and prioritization frameworks.
Manage risks, blockers, and escalations proactively, surfacing issues early and driving them to resolution with relevant stakeholders.
Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to engineering leadership, executives, and, where appropriate, enterprise customers.
Coordinate enterprise customer deployments and delivery milestones with the Product team and Solutions Engineering, ensuring commitments are met.
Support post-incident reviews, action-item tracking, and continuous improvement across teams.
Champion accountability, clarity, and execution excellence across the organization.