Senior Project Manager

Thoughtmakes Ai

Coimbatore District

On-site

INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

ThoughtMakes Ai seeks an experienced Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery for complex industrial software and system‑integration projects in India. You will coordinate across Product, Architecture, Development, QA, DevOps, IT/OT, and Automation teams, aligning customer requirements with platform development and deployment milestones.

You must have 10+ years of experience and PMP certification, with strong skills in risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

10+ years of overall professional experience.
PMP Certification Mandatory.
Strong end-to-end technology project management experience.
Proven experience managing software development and customer implementation/deployment projects.
Strong project planning and scheduling capability.
Strong dependency and critical-path management.
Experience coordinating multiple technical and cross-functional teams.
Strong risk, issue and escalation management.
Customer-facing project-management experience.
Experience with SDLC, testing, UAT, release and deployment processes.
Strong stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to understand technical architecture and integration discussions at project-management depth.
Strong written and verbal communication.
Strong ownership and execution mindset.
Willingness to travel to customer locations in India and overseas.

Responsibilities

Take complete end-to-end ownership of assigned projects from initiation to closure.
Understand customer requirements, project scope, solution objectives and committed deliverables.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, schedules, resource plans and delivery timelines.
Establish clear ownership for every deliverable and ensure accountability across teams.
Track customer projects across requirements, solution design, configuration, development, integration, testing, deployment, commissioning and go-live.
Coordinate platform-development activities required for individual customer projects.
Understand dependencies between customer requirements, existing platform capabilities, configuration requirements and new product/platform development.
Work closely with Product, Architecture, Development, QA, DevOps, MES Configuration, Deployment, IT/OT and Automation teams.
Coordinate with customer Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, IT, Automation and management stakeholders.
Coordinate with PLC/HMI teams, machine suppliers and other third-party solution providers where required.
Ensure customer requirements are clearly documented, reviewed, assigned, traceable and covered by appropriate testing.
Prevent projects from progressing based on incomplete, ambiguous or fragmented requirements.
Establish and manage scope baselines and change-control processes.
Identify project dependencies, critical-path activities, resource constraints and schedule risks.
Maintain effective RAID management.
Identify risks proactively and drive mitigation before they impact project commitments.
Track development and technical-team deliverables against customer-project milestones.
Ensure appropriate functional, integration, end-to-end, negative, regression and recovery testing.
Track defects, priorities, ownership and closure before release/deployment.
Coordinate FAT, SAT, UAT and customer acceptance activities.
Own overall deployment and go-live readiness.
Ensure application, infrastructure, IT connectivity, OT connectivity, PLC/HMI, devices, master data, users, training and support teams are ready for deployment.
Develop deployment, cutover, rollback/recovery and stabilization plans.
Drive project reviews, customer progress meetings, risk reviews and management reviews.
Provide clear and factual project status to ThoughtMakes management and customers.
Escalate risks and issues early with impact analysis and recommended recovery actions.
Manage multiple customer projects while maintaining visibility of shared platform and technical-resource dependencies.
Drive cross-functional teams toward closure without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Establish and continuously improve project-management and delivery-governance practices.
Capture lessons learned and use them to improve future project execution.

Skills

Ownership

End-to-end PM

RAID management

Stakeholder mgmt

SDLC experience

UAT/Release

Cross-functional

Delivery planning

Risk mitigation

Communication

Job description

Roles & Responsibilities

Take complete end-to-end ownership of assigned projects from initiation to closure.
Understand customer requirements, project scope, solution objectives and committed deliverables.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, schedules, resource plans and delivery timelines.
Establish clear ownership for every deliverable and ensure accountability across teams.
Track customer projects across requirements, solution design, configuration, development, integration, testing, deployment, commissioning and go-live.
Coordinate platform-development activities required for individual customer projects.
Understand dependencies between customer requirements, existing platform capabilities, configuration requirements and new product/platform development.
Work closely with Product, Architecture, Development, QA, DevOps, MES Configuration, Deployment, IT/OT and Automation teams.
Coordinate with customer Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, IT, Automation and management stakeholders.
Coordinate with PLC/HMI teams, machine suppliers and other third-party solution providers where required.
Ensure customer requirements are clearly documented, reviewed, assigned, traceable and covered by appropriate testing.
Prevent projects from progressing based on incomplete, ambiguous or fragmented requirements.
Establish and manage scope baselines and change-control processes.
Identify project dependencies, critical-path activities, resource constraints and schedule risks.
Maintain effective Risk, Action, Issue and Dependency (RAID) management.
Identify risks proactively and drive mitigation before they impact project commitments.
Track development and technical-team deliverables against customer-project milestones.
Ensure appropriate functional, integration, end-to-end, negative, regression and recovery testing.
Track defects, priorities, ownership and closure before release/deployment.
Coordinate FAT, SAT, UAT and customer acceptance activities.
Own overall deployment and go-live readiness.
Ensure application, infrastructure, IT connectivity, OT connectivity, PLC/HMI, devices, master data, users, training and support teams are ready for deployment.
Develop deployment, cutover, rollback/recovery and stabilization plans.
Drive project reviews, customer progress meetings, risk reviews and management reviews.
Provide clear and factual project status to ThoughtMakes management and customers.
Escalate risks and issues early with impact analysis and recommended recovery actions.
Manage multiple customer projects while maintaining visibility of shared platform and technical-resource dependencies.
Drive cross-functional teams toward closure without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Establish and continuously improve project-management and delivery-governance practices.
Capture lessons learned and use them to improve future project execution.

iTraceX Platform

Product/Platform
Requirements
Architecture
Development
Integration
Testing
Release

Customer Projects

Requirements
Solution/Configuration
Development
IT/OT Integration
Testing
Deployment
FAT/SAT/UAT
Go-Live
Stabilization
Acceptance

The Project Manager must maintain an end-to-end view across both streams, especially where customer commitments depend on platform-development deliverables.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should combine strong project-management discipline with sufficient technical understanding to manage complex industrial software and system-integration projects.

The candidate should be capable of understanding the complete project flow across: Customer Business Process Manufacturing MES Software Platform Integration IT Infrastructure OT/Automation Deployment You are not expected to be the software architect, developer or PLC programmer. However, you must understand technical discussions sufficiently to identify dependencies, risks, ownership gaps and delivery impact.

Mandatory Requirements

10+ years of overall professional experience
PMP Certification Mandatory
Strong end-to-end technology project management experience
Proven experience managing software development and customer implementation/deployment projects
Strong project planning and scheduling capability
Strong dependency and critical-path management
Experience coordinating multiple technical and cross-functional teams
Strong risk, issue and escalation management
Customer-facing project-management experience
Experience with SDLC, testing, UAT, release and deployment processes
Strong stakeholder-management skills
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to understand technical architecture and integration discussions at project-management depth
Strong written and verbal communication
Strong ownership and execution mindset
Willingness to travel to customer locations in India and overseas

Preferred Industry / Domain Experience

Candidates with experience managing projects for manufacturing customers will have an advantage.

Technical Understanding Preferred.

The candidate should be comfortable understanding projects involving:

Deep programming or PLC programming expertise is not required.

Key Competencies

Takes ownership, rather than merely following up.
Understands the complete project rather than isolated tasks.
Converts commitments into executable plans.
Identifies problems before they become delivery failures.
Understands dependencies between platform development and customer-project timelines.
Challenges unrealistic commitments constructively.
Drives closure and accountability across teams.
Can work effectively with senior technical specialists and architects.
Communicates schedule risks and bad news early.
Separates facts, assumptions, risks and issues.
Brings structure to ambiguous project situations.
Remains composed during production-critical situations.
Balances customer urgency with engineering reality and product quality.
Can communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior management.