Senior Technical Project Manager
Aclima, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $166,000 - $195,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own program scope, schedule, budget, and delivery outcomes across scientific monitoring and consulting engagements.
- Build detailed project plans (work breakdown structures, milestones, staffing plans, dependencies) and drive execution against them.
- Run internal and external program cadences (status reporting, action tracking, steering decisions, escalation pathways).
- Manage multiple workstreams and partners simultaneously (internal teams + academic or subcontractor collaborators).
- Drive change management: scope changes, contract modifications, and stakeholder expectations with clear documentation and approvals.
- Translate scientific requirements into executable plans: sampling strategies, QA/QC processes, data validation workflows, and deliverable specifications.
- Coordinate development and review of technical deliverables (methods docs, QA plans, analysis reports, geospatial outputs, StoryMaps, dashboards).
- Ensure scientific deliverables are reproducible and defensible: documentation, version control, traceability, assumptions, and limitations are clearly captured.
- Support technical review meetings with scientists, engineers, and external experts; ensure feedback is incorporated systematically.
- Maintain a program risk register and mitigation plans (field operations risks, instrument readiness, data quality, schedule dependencies, procurement constraints).
- Establish acceptance criteria for key deliverables and manage quality review gates across teams.
- Coordinate governance practices: decision logs, audit trails for data and models, and clear interim vs final deliverable labeling.
- Proactively manage issues—identify root causes, drive corrective actions, and prevent repeat problems.
- Serve as the day-to-day program lead for science customers, maintaining trust and transparency throughout delivery.
- Navigate complex stakeholder sets (technical reviewers, academics, program owners, procurement/legal, communications) while keeping execution moving.
- Communicate progress and risks clearly, adapting to both highly technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support proposal development and project transitions from sales to delivery, ensuring assumptions and commitments are implementable.
Requirements
- 8+ years experience in technical project/program management, including delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder work.
- PhD in environmental sciences, engineering, or a closely related field is highly preferred.
- Proven experience managing science-heavy or engineering-heavy projects, including consulting-style deliverables (reports, methods docs, customer presentations).
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects with data collection and analytics components (instrumentation, QA/QC, pipelines, data products).
- Strong operational discipline: planning, forecasting, status reporting, risk management, and change control.
- Comfort working across scientists, engineers, and operations teams; able to translate between domains and drive alignment.
- Excellent written communication: able to produce clear, structured documentation and customer-ready materials.
- High ownership mindset: can operate independently, escalate appropriately, and drive outcomes in ambiguity.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision/Life/AD&D/LTD
- 401K
- wellness credits
- company events
- extraordinary culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementdata validationQA/QC processesrisk managementchange managementdata collectionanalyticsgeospatial outputstechnical deliverablesprogram scope management
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingoperational disciplineindependenceadaptabilitycollaborationtrust buildingtranslating technical conceptsownership mindset