Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities Align requirements & own traceability — Drive a shared, well-defined understanding of requirements and use cases across Product, Engineering, and Services, and maintain traceability from requirement to design to build to test to customer sign-off, so nothing is built on assumptions and everyone knows what “done” means. Run delivery governance — Own the delivery operating rhythm: services-led status and escalation, a living risk register, dependency tracking, and go/no-go checkpoints — and align Gigawatt’s cadence with the customer’s sprint / PI-planning cadence so both sides plan against the same dates and dependencies. Coordinate testing — Orchestrate the end-to-end test effort across teams — system integration testing, parallel bill validation, and user acceptance testing — while Product and Engineering own quality within their own work; establish a shared definition of done and a clear defect-resolution and communication process, and prepare and support the customer’s testing team so their cycles aren’t blocked. Manage environments — Partner with Engineering to hold the environment strategy across dev / test / UAT / prod, and steward the promotion and release workflow (dev-first testing and smoke tests before controlled promotion to staging and production with the right approvals) so environments stay stable for both testing and live customer demos. Orchestrate quality — Institutionalize “quality is everyone’s job” as an operating practice: reduce drift from designs, enforce requirement traceability, and drive release-readiness reviews — making the pieces line up rather than substituting for the teams that own the code and the tests. Bridge customer & UAT communication — Be the reliable communication conduit between Gigawatt and the customer’s business and UAT teams and their test center of excellence; coordinate per-account validation and sign-off tracking (including documented, conditional sign-offs where a variance is accepted), keep the customer informed on the tight cadence they expect, and help hold the customer accountable to their side of scope, process, and data commitments. Partner cross-functionally — Hold a clear RACI so each team owns its own deliverables rather than the program absorbing everyone’s tasks, and translate what you learn in delivery into a structured feedback loop for Product and Engineering. What You’ll Bring Utility experience: Meaningful experience in the utility or energy industry — you understand how utilities operate and can hold your own with customer SMEs. Consulting / SI background: A track record delivering complex software or integration programs for enterprise clients as a consultant or systems integrator. Project & program management: Proven technical project/program management on multi-team software delivery, with real fluency in requirements definition, use-case traceability, and structured delivery governance. Testing & UAT coordination: Hands-on experience coordinating testing and UAT across a vendor and a customer, with a shared definition of done and a disciplined defect process. Environments & release: Comfort with environment and release management concepts — multiple environments, promotion workflows, and release readiness as a first-class dependency. Customer presence: Clear, calm, and credible communication under a demanding customer’s expectations, with the ability to translate between technical and business audiences. High agency: A strong bias for ownership — does the homework, brings options, and drives to decisions rather than escalating raw problems; low-ego, high-cooperation, and comfortable with ambiguity. Nice to Have Exposure to utility CIS / billing systems and data — customer/billing platforms, meter/interval usage, and tariff and rate structures. Familiarity with integration tooling and patterns (e.g., Boomi, Kafka / CDC, REST APIs). Experience in Agile / SAFe / PI-planning environments and with delivery tooling such as Jira. Experience standing up PMO / delivery discipline in a fast-moving, high-growth setting. How We’ll Measure Success Product, Engineering, and Services working from one agreed set of requirements and use cases, with visible traceability through to test and sign-off. A predictable delivery cadence and risk/escalation rhythm that leadership and the customer trust. A stable, well-governed environment and release process — no broken environments surprising a customer test cycle or demo. The customer experiences Gigawatt as coordinated and responsive; UAT and per-account sign-off move without avoidable stalls. You’ve become the single, credible point of coordination the program can lean on. Location US-based; open to remote, with periodic on-site travel to customer sites as the program requires. What We Offer Competitive salary and equity package. The chance to help build a delivery function from the ground up and shape how AI transforms a vital industry, working with a rock-star team. Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, remote-work flexibility, and 401(k) match. A collaborative culture focused on innovation and impact. If you’re excited to be the person who makes complex, high-stakes utility delivery run like clockwork, apply today! https://gigawatt.ai