Project Manager — Digital Solutions bei COMPOTECH INC

Description

Project Manager — Digital Solutions (Compotech Inc.)

Location: On-site (Bangor/Brewer/Orono, ME)
Clearance: Active Secret preferred, or the ability to acquire one • U.S. Person required (ITAR/Export)
Employment Type: Full-time
Travel: ~[10-25%] to labs, user sites, and exercises
Reports to: Director, Digital Solutions

Compotech’s Digital Solutions Team builds mission-grade software, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning solutions for national security and critical industries. We partner with DoD stakeholders to deliver operational outcomes fast.

Role Overview

Own the day-to-day planning and delivery of software and AI/ML projects scope, schedule, budget, risk, resources, and stakeholder alignment. You’ll run cross-functional execution (engineering, ML, DevSecOps, UX, test) from kickoff through acceptance and invoicing, ensuring compliance (RMF/ATO), high reliability, and crisp comms to internal leaders and DoD partners.

What You’ll Do

• Pre-Award Planning: For pre-award opportunities, develop project schedules and cost estimates (ROM?baseline) for development contracts; coordinate the technical volume and contribute to the overall contract submission alongside capture/proposal leads.
• Plan & Execute: Drive project charters, WBS, schedules, and baselines; manage dependencies, critical path, and change control.
• Cadence & Visibility: Run standups, sprint reviews, and weekly ops reviews; maintain logs; create and publish clear status on scope/schedule/budget/risks via dashboards.
• Risk & Quality: Lead risk identification/mitigation, RCAs/post-mortems, acceptance criteria, and readiness gates; coordinate test/validation and reliability targets (SLOs).
• Budget & Contracts: Track burn, EAC/ETC, and materials; coordinate SOWs, POP changes, CDRLs, deliverables, and vendor/sub performance.
• Security & Compliance: Orchestrate RMF/ATO artifacts with ISSM/ISSO; align to NIST 800-53/171, IL2–IL6 hosting, SBOMs, and secure SDLC checkpoints.
• Stakeholder Management: Maintain tight communication with PMs/KO reps/TPOCs; prep briefs, demos, and orals; capture and drive customer feedback into the backlog.
• Tooling & Reporting: Standardize DevOps workflows, reporting, and dashboards; ensure data hygiene and metrics for predictability, Microsoft Project, Power Bi etc..
• Platform Coordination:
• Compotech Internal: Adopt and optimize platform and systems, pivot if and when appropriate.
• Palantir Foundry (future): Coordinate work that touches Ontology, OSDK, Workshop/Slate/Maven; align object models, pipelines, and delivery milestones with engineering.
• Anduril Lattice(future): Coordinate integrations to Lattice (APIs/SDKs, data feeds, mission services); schedule adapter work, authN/Z, and low-latency interop milestones across sensors/effectors and C2 workflows.
• Delivery Readiness: Drive fielding plans, training, documentation, and handoffs to support/operations.
• Resourcing: Collaborate with line managers to forecast demand and secure capacity; onboard personnel and manage access.

What You Bring

• 5+ years managing projects (software preferably) (multi-team, multi-release)
• 2+ years working data/AI/ML or platform-heavy environments (or the ability to clearly communicate your understanding of AI/ML stacks and tools.
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), backlog management, estimation, dependency/risk control, and change management.
• Experience in DevSecOps environments (CI/CD, IaC, SBOMs) and familiarity with cloud/on-prem (AWS GovCloud/Azure Government/GCC High).
• Working knowledge of RMF/ATO, NIST 800-53/171, IL levels, and secure SDLC checkpoints.
• Fluency with Microsoft 365; solid financial tracking (burn, EAC/ETC) and vendor/SOW coordination.
• Excellent written/oral communication; able to translate technical detail into executive-ready updates and customer-facing briefs.

Nice-to-Have

• DoD/IC program experience; prior work with PEOs/DEVCOM/CDAO/DIU/AFWERX.
• Exposure to Palantir Foundry (Ontology/OSDK/Workshop/Slate/Maven) and/or Anduril Lattice program delivery.
• Familiarity with geospatial/time-series analytics, test planning for ML systems, and reliability/SRE practices.
• Certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, ITIL, or similar.

What We Offer

• Compensation: Competitive Market Salary for experience level and history + performance-based incentive; equity considered for high impact.
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, PTO.
• Environment: Mission-focused team, modern tooling, 
• Growth Opportunity: Advancement based on performance and potential-paths to Senior Project Manager/Program Manager, Portfolio Operations, or Delivery Director as scope and requirement scales.

Compotech Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is subject to background checks and, where applicable, clearance and export-control requirements.

Requirements

MUST BE A US CITIZEN