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Buzz Solutions is a venture-backed AI and analytics platform for power utility infrastructure inspection and maintenance. The company uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help utilities reduce inspection costs by 50%, prevent outages, mitigate wildfire risk, and manage aging grid infrastructure more effectively.
You will join the PMO as Senior Technical Project Manager, owning end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs spanning ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform, and Solutions Engineering teams. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery—turning ambiguity into clear execution plans, keeping teams aligned and accountable, and shipping on time and on scope.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own program and project delivery across engineering (ML, Systems/MLOps, Platform) and Solutions teams, from planning through launch and retrospective
- Build and maintain project plans, roadmaps, timelines, identifying critical paths, dependencies, and risks across concurrent initiatives
- Drive cross-functional alignment between Engineering, Product, Solutions Engineering, QA, and Customer Success
- Run agile processes (sprint planning, standups, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and standardize practices across teams
- Establish and improve PMO processes, standards, and tooling (Jira workflows, reporting, intake, prioritization frameworks)
- Proactively manage risks, blockers, and escalations, surfacing issues early and driving resolution
- Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to engineering leadership, executives, and enterprise customers
- Coordinate enterprise customer deployments and delivery milestones in partnership with product and Solutions Engineering
- Contribute to incident and process maturity through post-incident reviews and continuous improvement
- Champion a culture of accountability, clarity, and execution excellence
Requirements:
- 6+ years of technical project/program management experience, including delivery of complex software or ML/AI products
- Proven track record managing cross-functional technical programs with engineering teams (software, infrastructure, and/or ML)
- 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; able to challenge estimates and understand trade-offs
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence without authority; can 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
- Willing to travel 10%
- Note: Buzz Solutions does not provide visa sponsorship for work authorizations in the United States at this time
