Project Manager — Digital Solutions

Overview

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.

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, Dev Sec Ops , UX, test) from kickoff through acceptance and invoicing, ensuring compliance (RMF/ATO), high reliability, and crisp comms to internal leaders and DoD partners.

• 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 Dev Ops workflows, reporting, and dashboards; ensure data hygiene and metrics for predictability using tools such as Microsoft Project and Power BI.
• 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, auth
  
  N/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.

• 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 Dev Sec Ops environments (CI/CD, IaC, SBOMs) and familiarity with cloud/on-prem (AWS Gov Cloud/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.

• 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.

• 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.

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