Senior Technical Project Manager

Buzz Solutions, inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Buzz Solutions is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to join the PMO and drive delivery of complex cross-functional technical programs spanning ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform, and Solutions Engineering.

You will own end-to-end execution of initiatives affecting product development, model delivery, system infrastructure, and enterprise customer deployments. Travel up to 10% is expected as part of enterprise deployments and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical project/program management experience in software or ML/AI products.
• Proven track record managing cross-functional technical programs with engineering teams (software, infrastructure, and/or ML).
• Willing to travel 10%.
• Strong command of project management and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Jira, Confluence, or equivalent).
• Strong technical fluency: discuss software architecture, APIs, cloud infra, CI/CD, and ML/data workflows.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence without authority and align engineers, product, 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 through execution, launch, and retrospective.
• Build and maintain project plans, roadmaps, and timelines, identifying critical paths, dependencies, and risks across multiple initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Product, Solutions Engineering, QA, and Customer Success.
• Run agile and project processes - sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives; standardize practices across teams.
• Establish and improve PMO processes, standards, and tooling (Jira workflows, reporting, intake, prioritization) that scale with the company.
• Proactively manage risks, blockers, and escalations; surface issues early and drive resolution with stakeholders.
• Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to engineering leadership, executives, and enterprise customers.
• Coordinate enterprise customer deployments and delivery milestones with product team and Solutions Engineering.
• Contribute to incident and process maturity - post-incident reviews, action-item tracking, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Champion a culture of accountability, clarity, and execution excellence across the organization.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Jira/Confluence

ML/AI domain knowledge

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our PMO and drive the delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs spanning our ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform, and Solutions Engineering teams. You'll own the end-to-end execution of initiatives that touch product development, model delivery, system infrastructure, and enterprise customer deployments.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery and someone who can turn ambiguity into clear plans, keep teams aligned and accountable, and consistently ship on time and on scope.

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, identifying critical paths, dependencies, and risks across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Product, Solutions Engineering, QA, and Customer Success, ensuring everyone shares a clear understanding of scope, priorities, and status.
• Run effective agile and project processes - sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, and help standardize these practices across teams.
• Establish and improve PMO processes, standards, and tooling (e.g., Jira workflows, reporting, intake, prioritization frameworks) that scale with the company.
• Proactively manage risks, blockers, and escalations, surfacing issues early and driving them to resolution with the right stakeholders.
• Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to engineering leadership, executives, and (where appropriate) enterprise customers.
• Coordinate enterprise customer deployments and delivery milestones in partnership with product team and Solutions Engineering, ensuring commitments are met.
• Contribute to incident and process maturity - supporting post-incident reviews, action-item tracking, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Champion a culture of accountability, clarity, and execution excellence across the organization.

Qualification

• 6+ years of technical project/program management experience, including delivering complex software or ML/AI products.
• Proven track record managing cross-functional technical programs with engineering teams (software, infrastructure, and/or ML).
• Willing to travel 10%
• Strong command of project management and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Jira, Confluence, or equivalent).
• Strong technical fluency: comfortable discussing software architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and ML/data workflows well enough to challenge estimates and understand trade-offs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence without authority and align engineers, product, and business leaders.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and risk-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure and predictability to fast-moving, ambiguous environments

About us

Buzz Solutions safeguards the world’s energy infrastructure by providing AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for power line and energy infrastructure inspections. We are disrupting the power utility industry by providing automation for inspection and maintenance operations for infrastructure, using our AI-powered software platform, and are a venture-funded startup looking for great talent to share our vision of energy industry transformation. Our solutions and technology allows the utilities to reduce current inspection operation costs by at least 50%, prevent power outages, prevent wildfires and manage their assets in an effective way. You will be working with a talented, passionate and hardworking team of engineers and product/project managers to build end-to-end Machine Learning products and pipelines that will be deployed for our customers in order to prevent issues such as power outages, forced shutdowns, impact of climate change on the aging grid infrastructure and preventing wildfires.

* Buzz Solutions does not provide Visa sponsorship for work authorizations in the United States at this time *