Senior Project Manager, AI-Enabled Software Delivery

GE Vernova, Inc.; Zamudio; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a strategic software development initiative supporting the GridBeats Virtualization Journey for Protection Relays. You will oversee planning, execution, governance, and delivery, coordinating across engineering, product management, quality, service, and business stakeholders.

The successful candidate will drive alignment, manage risks, and ensure delivery of project outcomes with quality and on-time performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Extensive project management experience leading complex software development projects.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and executive communication skills.
• Experience in Agile environments and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Delivery: Lead complex software development projects from initiation to successful delivery, ensuring quality, timelines, and business objectives are met.
• Project Performance & Resources: Develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, budgets, milestones, and KPIs.
• Risk & Issue Management: Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Project Governance: Drive project governance, reporting, decision-making, project reviews, retrospectives, and lessons learned.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication: Build strong relationships with engineering, product management, service, commercial teams, and senior leadership. Communicate project status, milestones, risks, and mitigation plans clearly.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate activities across Software Development, Product Management, Quality Assurance, Service & Support, Training, and Technical Documentation.
• Quality & Continuous Improvement: Apply Lean principles, monitor quality and delivery metrics, lead root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions and best practices.
• AI-Enabled Project Management: Leverage AI tools for project planning, forecasting, risk identification, reporting, and productivity improvements, promoting their effective adoption within the team.
• Project Management Tools: Use project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, or equivalent platforms to support project planning, tracking, reporting, and delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Executive communication

Agile methodologies

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a strategic software development initiative supporting the GridBeats Virtualization Journey for Protection Relays. You will oversee planning, execution, governance, and delivery, coordinating across engineering, product management, quality, service, and business stakeholders.

The successful candidate will drive alignment, manage risks, and ensure delivery of project outcomes with quality and on-time performance.