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Technical Project Manager

Ocient

Remote · USJob$80–130K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$80–130K/yr
Location
Remote · US
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Ocient seeks a Technical Project Manager to lead technical programs and projects across its engineering, product, solutions, systems, and customer operations teams. The role spans project planning and execution, hardware and software installations, database workstreams, stakeholder communication, and portfolio management. The ideal candidate understands complex software project management and can coordinate across technical and business stakeholders while improving project processes and customer experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Project Management, nice to haveProject Management, nice to haveAgile Software Development, nice to haveScrum (Software Development), nice to haveWater Maze, nice to haveJIRA, nice to haveAsana, nice to haveMicrosoft Project, nice to haveSmartsheet, nice to haveSQL (Programming Language), nice to haveDatabase Administration, nice to haveComplex Software Project Management, nice to haveProject Planning, requiredProject Execution, requiredDatabase Project Management, requiredData Workflows, requiredHardware Deployment, requiredSoftware Deployment, requiredAgile, requiredWaterfall, requiredMS Project, requiredWritten Communication, requiredVerbal Communication, requiredPresentation Skills, requiredPrioritization, requiredOrganizational Skills, requiredAttention to Detail, requiredDatabase High Availability and Disaster Recovery, nice to haveDatabase Security, nice to haveDistributed Systems, nice to haveData Warehousing, nice to haveLarge-Scale Data Infrastructure, nice to haveEnterprise Customer Deployments, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Technical Field, nice to have4+ Years Project Management, nice to havePMP or Equivalent Certification, nice to havePMI-ACP or Equivalent Certification, nice to haveCSM or Equivalent Certification, nice to haveUS Work Authorization, required

Full job description

Job Title: Technical Project Manager Location: 100% Remote (US Based Only)

  • We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT, EAD, H1B, H4, etc.)

Hiring Manager: Solutions PMO Estimated salary range: $80,000 to $130,000

  • The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview: We're building a world class team with the aim of providing polished, professional, Project Management for an emerging company and product. Ocient is looking for ultimate team players who are dedicated to improving our Project Management, product, and customer experience with every interaction. The Ocient team consists of highly technical engineers and understanding the end-to-end development, sales, and delivery cycle is key to adding unique value to the organization. Our ideal Project Manager passionately understands complex software development Project Management. They are driven to lead successful projects coordinating across many participants and stakeholders, solve complex problems, and push the bounds of what is possible with performance and scale. Ocient Project Managers are self-motivated, enthusiastic leaders. They work directly with Solutions Delivery, Systems, Customer Operations, Engineering, Testers and Product Management personnel and with every part of the internal Ocient organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Own end-to-end planning and execution for technical programs and projects, including scope, timeline, resourcing, risk, and budget tracking
  • Manage hardware and software installation projects, including coordination of procurement, site readiness, customer and/or vendor schedules, and go-live cutovers
  • Coordinate database-related workstreams - requirements definitions, deployments, migrations, and workflow implementations
  • Manage overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverable dates can be clearly communicated to between teams (Product/Engineering/Solutions/Systems/ Customer Operations/QA/Sales) as well as business stakeholders
  • Build and maintain project plans, RAID logs, status reports, and dashboards; run stand-ups, steering committee updates, and retrospectives
  • Identify risks and blockers early, drive them to resolution, and escalate proactively when timelines or scope are at risk
  • Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects, prioritizing based on business impact and dependencies
  • Continuously improve program management processes, templates, and tooling for the team
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the US

Ideal Qualifications:

  • BS in management information science, computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
  • 4+ years of program or project management experience, ideally in a technical or engineering-adjacent environment
  • Hands-on experience managing projects involving databases (in cloud, on-prem, as a service), data workflows, or data platform operations
  • Experience coordinating hardware and/or software installation or deployment projects (on-prem, data center, or cloud infrastructure)
  • Strong working knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid) and tools (Jira, Asana, MS Project, Smartsheet, or similar)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting status and trade-offs to technical and executive audiences (both internal and external)
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong organizational skills with sharp attention to detail and follow-through

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

  • PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent certification
  • Experience working in Adtech, Telecommunications, and/or Network Security environments
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, data warehousing, or large-scale data infrastructure
  • An understanding of SQL, database HA/DR, and database security.
  • Interested in pushing the bounds of what’s possible in large-scale data analytics
  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical deployments
  • Background in a startup or high-growth, fast-paced and dynamic technical organization
  • A self-starter who can work projects from start to finish

How this job compares

Set against the 464 open Technical Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–130K/yr
  • US median$105–166K/yr311 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $105K, is 22% below the US median midpoint ($135K) — in the lowest quarter of Technical Project Manager salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 464 open Technical Project Manager jobs across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Technical Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 7 years (406 postings).
Education
184 of the 464 open Technical Project Manager jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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