AI Project & Operations Manager

Location: Remote, OH, US

Company

hirify.global develops advanced materials, manufacturing technologies, and Smartech AI software for wood panel mills.

What you will do

• Own quarterly commitments across engineering, R&D, and customer delivery, including scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder reporting.
• Coordinate planning across Platform and IT, R&D, customer delivery, data science, and modeling teams, translating priorities into executable plans.
• Identify at-risk initiatives, create recovery plans, resolve dependencies, and restore delivery confidence.
• Establish operating cadences including planning cycles, business reviews, decision tracking, and action follow-through.
• Build executive-ready KPIs and dashboards covering delivery progress, operational health, risks, and business outcomes.
• Design scalable processes, handoffs, and playbooks for repeatable customer launches, mill connectivity, training, adoption, and value realization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience managing complex technology projects from initiation through delivery, including scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder reporting.
• Demonstrated success leading coordinated planning across multiple engineering or technical teams, such as quarterly planning or release-train planning, with measurable delivery results.
• Proven experience recovering at-risk projects through clear plans, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution.
• Hands-on experience with project management and delivery tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Experience delivering, integrating, or deploying manufacturing software in plant environments, particularly Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM/MOS) platforms, with the ability to support operational adoption.
• Experience designing and operating business rhythms, including business reviews, planning cycles, decision logs, and action tracking.
• Demonstrated experience building KPIs and dashboards used by executives to support decisions.
• Experience creating scalable processes, handoffs, and playbooks adopted by others and evolved as a team or business grew.
• Experience leading or coordinating large, globally distributed engineering and quality assurance teams across time zones without relying on formal authority.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication across technical teams, field organizations, customers, and senior leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering digital or software products in an industrial, chemical, or manufacturing company, ideally commercial-facing products used by external customers.
• Prior software development leadership experience, such as developer, lead developer, or engineering manager.
• Startup or early-stage experience moving an alpha, prototype, or pilot into production and repeatable deployment.
• Experience coordinating customer-facing delivery teams such as customer success, implementation, or field engineering.
• PMP, Agile, or equivalent recognized project management certification, combined with judgment to scale process to fit the team and situation.
• Familiarity with industrial data and plant-connectivity technologies, including MES, MOM/MOS, historians, OPC, or IoT platforms, or strong motivation and ability to build fluency in these areas quickly.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role associated with Ohio, United States.
• Work in an inclusive culture focused on growth, collaboration, accountability, safety, partnership, belonging, and impact.
• Access to tools, training, and continuous development opportunities.
• Employment is subject to a drug test, background investigation, and potential periodic background checks under applicable chemical facility security requirements.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.