Technical Project Manager

kWh Analytics is insuring the energy transition by underwriting property insurance and revenue firming products for renewable energy assets. As a Technical Project Manager, you will manage the operating rhythm of technical teams, track progress, and facilitate communication across various departments to ensure project success.

Responsibilities:

• Run standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, project check-ins and retrospectives across Engineering and Underwriting
• Track progress and blockers across all active workstreams; surface issues before they become delays
• Own bug tracking and ticket triage, including managing the incoming queue and keeping it from becoming a black hole
• Check in regularly with internal end users to surface friction and unmet needs
• Enforce team policies and process standards, developed alongside the engineering, data science, and underwriting managers
• Scope incoming work; including feature requests, integration tasks, and partner-driven asks; and turn them into well-defined tickets
• Get hands-on when needed: dig into our UI, datasets, and codebase to understand what's actually going on before escalating
• Drive efforts to expand and improve our data, coordinating the logistics of data acquisition, onboarding, and validating new datasets
• Own communication with key external partners on project status and timelines
• Balance engineering capacity with business needs vs. wants when scoping tasks, keeping both long-term goals and short-term issues in view
• Develop deep expertise in our internal data products, tools, and workflows. Own QA/QC for code releases and engineering outputs before they reach production or stakeholders
• Maintain documentation: keep core user guides, decision logs, and project documentation up-to-date and organized
• Prepare concise updates for leadership that cut through the noise

Requirements:

• 4–8 years in technical project management, program management, or a closely related role
• Engineering fluency. You've worked closely enough with software engineers that you can read the codebase, query a database, poke around a UI to diagnose an issue, and have a meaningful technical conversation without needing it translated
• Strong comprehension of the software development lifecycle, git, release processes, and the importance of a well designed and well tested codebase
• Capable in python & SQL, and familiar with AWS and Javascript
• Comfortable operating without a complete playbook. You can take a vague ask and turn it into something executable
• Adds structure without rigidity. You know the difference between process that helps a team move faster and process that just creates overhead
• Strong written communication; you keep messaging in email/Slack/Teams actionable and status updates readable
• Excellent organizational skills. You are able to see the big picture, and keep track of all of the workstreams and tasks that must be managed to accomplish company objectives
• TPM experience in insurance, banking, or financial services. Not because the domain is required, but because it builds the judgment for working with internal customers, transactional workflows, and data-sensitive systems and stakeholder environments similar to ours
• You have both startup and large company experience. Maybe you've even supported an acquisition or significant organizational integration. If you've helped a team navigate the 'we just had a huge organizational change, now what?' phase, that's a strong plus