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title: 'Technical Project Manager at Ocient Inc.'
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# Technical Project Manager at Ocient Inc.

- **Company:** Ocient Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-/am9icG9zdDqUzWDI7nPB-1ai3jJbFdxp

## 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

## About Ocient Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ocient delivers OcientAIQ, a unified data platform that brings trusted agentic AI directly to petabyte-scale enterprise data without moving it across fragmented systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed) – total funding $156.5M
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Greg Papadopoulos (Co-Founder & VP of Customer Success & Quality), Joe Jablonski (Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Data & AI software, large-scale data analytics, agentic AI infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B Enterprise – organizations with massive datasets (government, national security, financial services, telecom, energy)
- Mission: “To deliver trusted agentic AI solutions that work in production at petabyte scale – helping the organizations doing the most consequential work in the world realize the full value of their data.”

## Products & Services
- **OcientAIQ™**: Complete ecosystem for building and deploying trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale. Brings AI directly to data with built-in governance, compliance, and deployment options. Handles structured and semi-structured data in a single platform. (SaaS / platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$60M; total funding $156.5M (Series A, Series B, debt financing)
- **Notable Investors**: Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Buoyant Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount 185 (+33.3% YoY); actively hiring with 10 open positions (+900% YoY in job postings); remote-first global workforce across 11 countries; carbon-neutral operations including LEED-certified data center; LinkedIn followers grew 29.6% YoY

## Competitive Advantages
- Founded by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM) – deep domain expertise in petabyte-scale data systems
- Purpose-built for organizations that cannot afford AI errors (national security, critical infrastructure)
- Unified platform eliminates data movement, reducing cost and latency at extreme scale
- Built-in trust and compliance controls for regulated industries
- Remote-first, carbon-neutral culture attracts top engineering talent

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling OcientAIQ ecosystem for enterprise adoption
- Expanding agentic AI capabilities (trusted, production-ready)
- Continuing international growth (India, Canada, Europe, Singapore)
- Heavy investment in engineering talent: open roles in distributed systems, ML, geospatial, SRE, QA automation, product management

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Craft-driven, autonomous, collaborative, inclusive, and ethical. “We are industry-leading experts … driven to deliver the best and brightest solutions.”
- **Work model**: Remote-first – team distributed across 11 countries
- **Impact**: Work on problems that protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy
- **Compensation**: Sr. Software Engineer ~$172K/year; Software Engineer I ~$97K/year (LinkedIn data)
- **Perks**: Carbon-neutral operations, LEED-certified data center, commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goals
- **Rating**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) – culture and career score 4.2, work-life 4.1
- **Notable alumni destinations**: Google, Amazon, MongoDB, Citadel Securities

## Sources
1. [ocient.com/careers](https://ocient.com/careers/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ocient](https://linkedin.com/company/ocient)
3. [ocient.com/about-ocient](https://ocient.com/about-ocient/)
4. [jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-](https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-)

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