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# Project Management Lead at Cognite - AI for Industry

- **Company:** Cognite - AI for Industry
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/cognite/jobs/4971564101

## Job description

What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here.

Our [Moonshot](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/newsroom/cognite-s-industrial-ai-momentum-soars-driving-ecosystem-impact-at-global-conference) is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

## How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

## About the Role

Cognite Academy is looking for a highly organized and execution-focused Senior Project Lead – Academy Content & Operations to drive the day-to-day execution of our training content development initiatives.

This role will be responsible for ensuring that content development projects move from planning to completion on time, with clear ownership, strong cross-functional coordination, and minimal execution friction.

You will work closely with instructional designers, technical content developers, trainers, product experts, and subject matter experts (SMEs) across Cognite. You will establish project plans, maintain execution cadence, track deliverables and dependencies, proactively identify risks, and follow up with stakeholders to keep projects moving.

This is an individual contributor role with significant responsibility for driving accountability and execution across the Academy team.

## Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Execution

- Own the end-to-end project management of Academy content development initiatives.
- Translate content development priorities into clear project plans, milestones, and deliverables.
- Establish and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly execution rhythms across active projects.
- Ensure every project has clearly defined tasks, owners, deadlines, dependencies, and status.
- Track project progress against agreed timelines and proactively address schedule risks.
- Maintain a consolidated view of all active content development projects and their health.
- Drive projects through to completion rather than simply tracking and reporting progress.

## Team Coordination & Accountability

- Coordinate closely with Academy team members to ensure weekly commitments and project tasks are clearly defined and updated.
- Follow up proactively on overdue or at-risk deliverables and help remove obstacles affecting execution.
- Facilitate regular project check-ins, stand-ups, and status reviews as required.
- Ensure project management systems remain accurate and reflect the latest status, ownership, deadlines, and dependencies.
- Create visibility into upcoming milestones, workload, risks, and potential bottlenecks.

Cross-Functional & SME Coordination

- Coordinate with Product, Professional Services, Engineering, Customer Success, and other teams to secure SME participation required for Academy projects.
- Schedule and manage SME engagements, reviews, technical validation sessions, and content approvals.
- Follow up with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure dependencies are completed on time.
- Identify cross-functional blockers early and proactively work with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Escalate unresolved risks and dependencies with clear context, impact, and recommended actions.

Project Governance & Reporting

- Establish consistent project management practices across Academy content development.
- Maintain project dashboards, trackers, risk logs, action registers, and project documentation.
- Provide concise weekly status reporting covering progress, upcoming milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
- Identify recurring execution bottlenecks and recommend process improvements.
- Help improve the predictability and scalability of Academy's content development operations.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

What Success Looks Like

- Academy content projects have clear plans, owners, milestones, and deadlines.
- Weekly commitments are visible and consistently followed through.
- Project risks and delays are identified before they become critical.
- SMEs and cross-functional dependencies are engaged early enough to avoid project delays.
- Team members spend less time chasing dependencies and coordinating logistics.
- Leadership has clear visibility into project health, risks, capacity, and delivery timelines.
- Content development projects are completed predictably and on time.

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in project management, program coordination, program operations, or a similar execution-focused role.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate confidently with both team members and senior stakeholders.
- Strong ability to drive follow-through and accountability across teams without having direct reporting authority.
- Advanced knowledge of modern project management tools such as Asana, Jira, Monday.com, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of project management practices including milestone planning, dependency management, risk management, capacity planning, status reporting, and escalation.
- Excellent organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to identify blockers, facilitate decisions, and proactively move projects forward.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing training, learning content, technical documentation, product education, or content development projects.
- Experience working with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, or other technical teams.
- Familiarity with instructional design or technical training development processes.
- Experience building dashboards and reporting mechanisms for portfolio/project visibility.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or similar project management certification is beneficial but not required.

## Key Competencies

- Execution Discipline – Creates structure, maintains momentum, and drives projects through completion.
- Communication – Communicates clearly, concisely, and confidently across functions and levels.
- Ownership – Takes responsibility for outcomes rather than simply documenting project status.
- Influence Without Authority – Builds relationships and drives accountability across stakeholders without relying on reporting structures.
- Proactive Problem Solving – Identifies risks and blockers early and works actively to resolve them.
- Organization & Attention to Detail – Maintains accurate project plans and ensures commitments do not fall through the cracks.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration – Builds productive relationships with SMEs and stakeholders across the organization.

## Role Scope

This is an individual contributor role and does not have direct people-management responsibility. The role owns the execution and coordination of Academy projects, while functional leaders and content owners remain accountable for their respective subject-matter and content decisions.

Learn more about us

- [Impact 2025](https://www.cognite.com/en/resources/blog/key-highlights-from-impact-2025)
- [Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/newsroom/cognite-s-industrial-ai-momentum-soars-driving-ecosystem-impact-at-global-conference)
- We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

## Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

## About Cognite - AI for Industry

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cognite delivers industrial AI software that unifies siloed operational data to help energy, process manufacturing, and other industrial companies improve production efficiency and scale AI solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Aker ASA, total funding of $338.9M)
- **Headquarters**: Tempe, Arizona, United States (global HQ; also Lysaker, Norway)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (co-founded by a team with industrial and tech backgrounds)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Industrial AI, Industrial DataOps, Energy (oil & gas, renewables), Process Manufacturing, Power & Utilities
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise industrial companies (energy, manufacturing, chemicals, etc.)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Power a high-tech, sustainable, and profitable industrial future” — enabling industrial teams to move faster, work safer, and achieve more with AI.

## Products & Services
- **Cognite Data Fusion®**: Open Industrial DataOps platform that contextualizes operational, engineering, and IT data into a real-time Industrial Knowledge Graph, making data accessible for AI and analytics. (SaaS/platform)
- **Cognite Atlas AI™**: Low-code industrial AI agent workbench for building and deploying agentic AI to automate complex operational tasks. (AI agent platform)
- **Cognite Flows™**: Tool for building and scaling production-ready industrial workflows 100x faster. (Workflow automation)
- **Composable reference applications**: Pre-built solutions for production optimization, smart maintenance, workforce digitalization, and sustainability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $338.9M (5 rounds); Annual revenue SEK 790.7M (approx. $75M based on current exchange rates, but exact USD not given)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Aker ASA; partners include Microsoft, Aker BP, Sopra Steria, Omny, Aize, and others. Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Industrial DataOps Platforms.
- **Growth Signals**: 663 employees (+20.9% YoY); 102 active job postings (+67.2% YoY); LinkedIn followers 103,713 (+65.8% yearly); committed to delivering $100B in customer value by 2035; customers report 30-80% reduction in maintenance time and 4-month deployment cycles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industrial domain expertise**: Deep specialization in heavy industry (energy, process manufacturing) with a platform built for complex OT/IT data integration.
- **Open ecosystem**: Works with any cloud, any data source, any LLM, enabling flexible partnerships and off-the-shelf integrations.
- **Low-code AI agents**: Cognite Atlas AI allows domain experts to build AI agents without deep coding, speeding adoption.
- **Proven ROI**: Customers report 10x productivity improvements, rapid scaling (e.g., from pilot to 9 facilities in months), and significant downtime reduction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling industrial AI**: Accelerate time-to-value with pre-built solutions, AI agents, and use-case best practices.
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence in Americas (Tempe, Austin, Houston), Europe (Oslo), Asia (Tokyo, Bengaluru).
- **Customer value commitment**: Ambitious goal of $100B in customer value by 2035.
- **Partner ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with cloud providers, system integrators, and industrial software vendors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of Relentless (innovation, learning from setbacks), Ownership (shared responsibility, inclusivity), and Impact (result-oriented, adding value to team and customers). Described as “smart, passionate builders, and problem solvers.”
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid model with offices in Tempe, Austin, Houston, Oslo, Tokyo, Bengaluru. Some roles listed as “USA (remote)” indicating flexibility for certain positions.
- **Diversity**: Employees from 60+ countries; global team of engineers, product managers, domain experts.
- **Perks & Growth**: Opportunity to work on “biggest impact on our planet” — industrial AI at scale; strong investment in R&D and career development; fast-growing company with 100+ open roles.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI, data engineering, machine learning, and full-stack development; roles like Senior AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, Applied AI Engineer.

## Sources
1. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en)
2. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/about-us-cognite)
3. [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en/company/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cognite)

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