Senior Project Manager (PMO)

Irth develops an integrated asset-integrity and risk platform. The Senior Project Manager within the PMO leads end-to-end program delivery across Product, Engineering, Data Science, QA, Infrastructure, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience, owning plans, schedules, budgets, dependencies, risks, governance, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain the integrated project plan across Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Infrastructure, and Go-to-Market workstreams
• Establish and manage phase-gate milestones, release dates, and critical-path activities
• Lead the weekly delivery cadence, including: Sprint and release checkpoints; Workstream status reviews; Cross-functional dependency management; Critical-path reviews; Schedule recovery and corrective actions
• Maintain a single source of truth for program status, milestones, dependencies, and delivery health
• Reconcile the delivery plan against actual engineering and team capacity
• Identify schedule slippage early and drive mitigation plans with accountable owners
• Own the program risk register, covering: Technical risks; Data risks; Regulatory/compliance risks; Vendor risks; Resourcing and hiring risks; Delivery and operational risks
• Ensure every material risk has a named owner, mitigation plan, target date, and escalation trigger
• Track program budget and vendor spend, including: Azure consumption; Databricks consumption; Software and platform licensing; Contractor costs; Other program-related vendor expenditure
• Monitor actuals versus budget and flag variances early
• Maintain the program decision log, documenting: Decision required; Options/trade-offs considered; Decision made; Decision owner; Rationale; Date and downstream impact
• Ensure key decisions are documented clearly enough to support phase-gate reviews, governance, and future audits
• Own the steering committee cadence, including: Agenda; Pre-read materials; Status reporting; Decisions required; Actions and follow-up
• Prepare concise Executive Sponsor updates covering: Overall program health; Schedule; Budget; Key risks; Dependencies; Decisions required; Upcoming milestones
• Prepare materials for steering committee and board-level reporting
• Coordinate phase-gate approvals with the Executive Sponsor, who owns the business case and funding
• Ensure governance forums result in clear decisions, accountable owners, and documented follow-through
• Coordinate and manage the cross-functional project team across: Product; Engineering; Data Architecture; Data Engineering; Data Science; Platform Engineering; QA; Infrastructure; Marketing; Sales; Customer Experience
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, timelines, and interdependencies across workstreams
• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional blockers and escalate issues when required
• Maintain alignment between technical delivery and commercial/customer-readiness activities
• Coordinate with external customer design partners to ensure customer feedback and validation are incorporated into delivery
• Integrated master project plan
• Detailed milestone and phase-gate schedule
• Weekly program status report
• Dependency tracker
• Critical-path analysis
• Program risk and issue register
• Program budget and vendor-spend tracker
• Decision log
• Steering committee agenda and materials
• Executive Sponsor and board reporting
• Phase-gate readiness assessments
• Cross-functional action tracker
• Release and go-to-market readiness plan

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience managing complex software, technology, or data-platform programs, including at least 3 years leading multi-workstream programs with executive visibility
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of program schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, and delivery outcomes for programs of comparable scope. This should be direct ownership—not coordination support for another project manager's plan
• Experience delivering programs in a regulated environment, where audit trails, evidence, documentation, and traceability are core delivery requirements
• Strong experience running Agile delivery at scale alongside phase-gated executive governance, with the ability to translate between Agile execution and executive-level milestones and decisions
• Proven track record establishing and managing:
• Decision logs
• Risk and issue registers
• Dependency trackers
• Executive dashboards
• Program status reporting
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to create clear project dashboards and executive updates that provide the right information to the right audience
• Experience managing external customer, partner, or design-partner commitments as integrated components of the delivery plan
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to drive accountability across Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Infrastructure, Commercial, and Customer Experience teams
• Experience in pipeline integrity, utilities, energy, infrastructure, or another asset-intensive regulated industry
• Experience delivering data-platform, ML, or AI programs using:
• Microsoft Azure
• Databricks
• Lakehouse architectures
• Model registries
• Model serving
• Data/model governance
• Four-year degree or equivalent professional experience
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program/project management certification
• Experience integrating an acquired team, product, platform, or technology into an existing organization or operating model