Senior Project Manager - Grid Software

Want to help build the future of energy? At GE Vernova, our grid software helps keep the lights on and the world moving forward. As a Grid Software Project Manager, you'll lead the way, turning customer promises into powerful, real-world solutions that shape a more reliable, sustainable grid.

The Grid Software Project Manager is the pathfinder for the customer, translating customer and business commitments into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes. This role leads customer-facing software solution projects from initiation through acceptance and transition, coordinating customers, delivery teams, partners, and supporting functions. The Project Manager owns delivery across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, governance, customer value, and project financial health.

• Customer and stakeholder leadership. Serve as the primary delivery contact; align expectations, communicate proactively, balance competing needs, and connect decisions to customer outcomes, confidence, adoption, and value.

• Scope and change control. Define objectives, requirements, deliverables, work breakdown structure, acceptance criteria, assumptions, and responsibilities. Baseline scope and manage changes through documented impact assessment and approval.

• Integrated schedule management. Build and actively manage milestones, dependencies, critical path, customer obligations, and internal handoffs. Maintain a current schedule, identify variance early, and drive recovery actions.

• Financial and commercial management. Own cost, margin, forecast accuracy, cash flow, billing readiness, and commercial exposure. Understand contractual obligations, identify entitlement, manage change orders, and protect project profitability.

• Customer value realization and account growth. Identify opportunities to expand customer value, solution adoption, and project scope; partner with commercial and account teams to develop appropriate growth opportunities while maintaining delivery and contractual discipline.

• Risk, issue, and decision management. Maintain a current RAID log with clear owners and due dates. Anticipate risks, lead mitigation and structured problem solving, and upscale with facts, options, and recommendations.

• Governance and reporting. Establish operating mechanisms and decision rights. Provide accurate, timely, decision-useful status, forecasts, performance data, and executive updates. Maintain complete project records.

• Cross-functional delivery leadership. Lead matrixed teams across software development, engineering, product, quality, testing, cybersecurity, infrastructure, services, finance, commercial, sales, and partners as applicable. Clarify accountability and drive commitments to closure.

• Quality, acceptance, and transition. Integrate quality planning, coordinate testing and defect resolution, maintain traceability to acceptance criteria, and support-controlled implementation and transition to customer operations

• and support.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• 10+ years of project management experience for Senior-level customer-facing requisitions, including customer-facing software, technology, systems integration, or solution delivery projects.

• Demonstrated experience managing scope, integrated schedules, financials, risks and issues, change control, quality, governance, and executive reporting.

• Experience leading cross-functional, matrixed teams and managing customers and internal stakeholders through complex delivery situations.

• Strong communication, analysis, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills across technical, commercial, operational, and executive audiences.

• Experience delivering electric utility software, including control-room or mission-critical operational solutions.

• Knowledge of utility operations and grid applications such as SCADA, energy management, advanced distribution management, or outage management.

• Commercial and contract management experience, including customer acceptance, change orders, margin protection, billing, and cash flow.

• Experience with global, distributed teams, implementation partners, and multi-region delivery.

• Working knowledge of software delivery life cycles and Agile, Scrum, hybrid, and Waterfall approaches.

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, or comparable certification; master’s degree in a…