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Senior Project Manager

Cognite - AI for Industry
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What Cognite is

  • Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world's hardest, highest impact problems.
  • Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works.

How you'll demonstrate Ownership

  • We're looking for a Project Manager who enjoys solving complex challenges, takes ownership of outcomes, and is motivated by delivering measurable value.
  • This role goes beyond managing timelines; you'll lead transformational AI implementation projects that help some of the world's largest industrial organisations modernise the way they operate.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

  • Lead end to end project delivery from kickoff through deployment, adoption, and value realisation.
  • Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer outcomes, and commercial performance.
  • Collaborate with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Customer Success to deliver high quality solutions.
  • Translate customer objectives into measurable success metrics and facilitate Value Realisation Workshops to demonstrate business impact.
  • Manage project financials, including forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability, cost management, and reporting.
  • Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, leading steering committees, and providing clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and scope changes while ensuring appropriate governance and transparency.
  • Support customer adoption through change management, enablement, and training while recognising opportunities to expand customer value.
  • Contributing to the continuous improvement of delivery practices by applying Cognite's PMO methodologies, playbooks, and lessons learned.

Required Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience delivering complex software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise technology implementation projects.
  • Experience managing enterprise or industrial digital transformation programmes involving multiple stakeholders and technical workstreams.
  • Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data architecture, and enterprise systems.
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen, including forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, and project profitability.
  • Experience within one or more industrial sectors, including Energy, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Power & Renewables, or Life Sciences.
  • Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies and project governance frameworks such as Scrum, PMP, or PRINCE2.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% as required.

Preferred skills

  • PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or Scrum certification.
  • Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
  • Industrial IoT, SCADA, MES, or Operational Technology (OT) environments.
  • AI, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or Analytics implementation projects.

Why Cognite?

  • At Cognite, you'll have the opportunity to work at the forefront of Industrial AI, partnering with some of the world's leading industrial organisations to solve complex, real world challenges.
  • You'll join a collaborative, inclusive, and fast moving team.

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