Senior Project Manager

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Hiring Remotely in France
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics • Industrial • Generative AI • Big Data Analytics
Cognite makes data accessible and meaningful for our industrial customers.
The Role
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex Industrial AI and digital transformation projects, managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, financial performance, governance, customer outcomes, adoption, and value realization. Collaborate with technical teams and executive stakeholders, facilitate steering committees and value workshops, support change management and training, and improve delivery practices. The role requires enterprise technology implementation experience, technical fluency, industrial-sector familiarity, strong commercial skills, French fluency, and travel of up to 25%.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 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
At Cognite, we're transforming the world's most asset-intensive industries through Industrial AI. Our customers rely on us to turn complex industrial data into meaningful business outcomes—and this is where you come in.
 
We're looking for a Project Manager who enjoys solving complex challenges, takes ownership of outcomes, and is motivated by delivering measurable value. This role goes beyond managing timelines; you'll lead transformational AI implementation projects that help some of the world's largest industrial organisations modernise the way they operate.
From contract signing through deployment and value realisation, you'll partner with customers and cross-functional teams to deliver successful projects that create lasting business impact.
The Impact you bring to Cognite
  • As the Project Manager, you'll be accountable for the successful delivery of complex Industrial AI implementation projects by:
  • Leading end-to-end project delivery from kickoff through deployment, adoption, and value realisation.
  • Owning project scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer outcomes, and commercial performance.
  • Collaborating with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Translating customer objectives into measurable success metrics and facilitating Value Realisation Workshops to demonstrate business impact.
  • Managing project financials, including forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability, cost management, and reporting.
  • Building trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, leading steering committees, and providing clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Identifying and managing risks, dependencies, and scope changes while ensuring appropriate governance and transparency.
  • Supporting customer adoption through change management, enablement, and training while recognising opportunities to expand customer value.
  • Contributing to the continuous improvement of delivery practices by applying Cognite's PMO methodologies, playbooks, and lessons learned.
Required Qualifications:
  • A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience delivering complex software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise technology implementation projects.
  • Experience managing enterprise or industrial digital transformation programmes involving multiple stakeholders and technical workstreams.
  • Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data architecture, and enterprise systems, enabling effective collaboration with technical teams and informed decision-making.
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen, including forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, and project profitability.
  • Experience within one or more industrial sectors, including Energy, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Power & Renewables, or Life Sciences.
  • Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies and project governance frameworks such as Scrum, PMP, or PRINCE2.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently across technical teams, customers, and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% as required.
  • Speak fluent French
Preferred skills:
  • We're particularly interested if you also bring experience in:
  • PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or Scrum certification.
  • Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
  • Industrial IoT, SCADA, MES, or Operational Technology (OT) environments.
  • AI, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or Analytics implementation projects.

Why Cognite?

At Cognite, you'll have the opportunity to work at the forefront of Industrial AI, partnering with some of the world's leading industrial organisations to solve complex, real-world challenges.
You'll join a collaborative, inclusive, and fast-moving environment where innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning are encouraged. We value diverse perspectives and believe great ideas come from people with different experiences and backgrounds.
If you're excited by technology, enjoy working with customers to solve meaningful problems, and want to help shape the future of industry, we'd love to hear from you.

 
 
 
Learn more about us
 
 
 
  • Impact 2025
  • Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot
  • 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.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
  • 5+ years of experience delivering complex software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise technology implementation projects
  • Experience managing enterprise or industrial digital transformation programs involving multiple stakeholders and technical workstreams
  • Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data architecture, and enterprise systems
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen, including forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, and project profitability
  • Experience in an industrial sector such as Energy, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Power and Renewables, or Life Sciences
  • Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and project governance frameworks such as Scrum, PMP, or PRINCE2
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet
  • Willingness to travel up to 25%
  • Fluent French language skills
  • PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or Scrum certification
  • Experience with Azure or AWS
  • Experience with Industrial IoT, SCADA, MES, or Operational Technology environments
  • Experience delivering AI, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or Analytics implementation projects

Cognite Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognite and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognite.

  • Affordable Benefits Healthcare premiums for employees and dependents are often fully covered, reducing out‑of‑pocket costs. Feedback suggests this makes the total rewards feel competitive in key markets.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers is described as generous. This signals a family‑friendly approach that many consider a standout perk.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO with a company‑wide year‑end shutdown offers ample time away from work. Flexible time‑off options are consistently highlighted across U.S. roles.

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The Company
HQ: Oslo
751 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Cognite is an AI company that delivers industrial software to improve the production efficiency of Energy, Process Manufacturing, and other industrial companies. We deliver an Industrial DataOps platform that liberates siloed data and empowers our customers to solve some of their most complex business problems with AI-powered solutions. The typical solutions we enable drive innovative new ways to approach Data Exploration, Digital Operator Rounds, Production Optimization, Turnaround Planning, and Root Cause Analysis. We do this by automating and scaling industrial data contextualization of various sources (such as time series, engineering diagrams, equipment logs, maintenance records, 3D facility models, images, large point clouds, and more). We use AI and other tools to find and map the meaningful relationships between the data across these various sources. In addition, we provide intuitive tools that enable efficient use of analytics and automated workflows, as well as prebuilt AI capabilities and a low-code industrial agent builder, Cognite Atlas AI, that enables AI to carry out more complex operations with greater accuracy.

Why Work With Us

Employees at Cognite are pushing the envelope with the latest cloud technology, scaling industrial applications across hundreds of assets, revolutionizing industrial data models, and working with robotics. Cogniters are fast, creative, and resilient. We keep the energy high and fun, learning from our mistakes and celebrating our victories together.

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