Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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
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