Technical Project Manager

Somerville, MA

Technical Project Management

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Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

As our company grows and scales, we are excited for a Technical Project Manager to join the team! H2Ok’s Technical Project Managers are responsible for implementing H2Ok’s technology, ensuring project success. You will be the primary point of contact for multiple customers who are scaling H2Ok globally. Every H2Ok deployment has an assigned Account Manager (AM) and Project Manager (PM). AMs are sales team representatives, while PMs are responsible for leading project implementation. Every deployment also has supporting Applications Engineers (hardware, software, data analytics). You will be the liaison between customers and H2Ok’s engineering team. You will represent the customer and resolve pain points as fast as possible. You will also communicate customer needs and requests back to the engineering teams to help develop our products. It’s critical that you understand the first principles behind our technology & can clearly communicate technical requirements. The most important part of this role is the organization of many concurrent projects with many specific technical details (OT/IT, P&IDs, PLC, SCADA). You will be in charge of running weekly meetings, tracking progress on gantt charts, walking through H2Ok’s tech deck, and sending next steps via follow-up emails. You will coordinate closely with H2Ok Applications Engineers to identify installation locations (P&IDs), gather necessary information for ML model building, and present customer data analytics. You’ll also work closely with the Sales team to generate business reports and evaluate deployment success criteria. Finally, you’ll coordinate closely with factory process engineers and quality assurance managers. You will be the point of contact both internally and externally for this account and will need to have a thorough understanding of each facility’s operations.

What You Will Do

Project Planning - Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish a project plan meets scoped and statement of work
Resource Management - Leverage internal resources ensuring the right people have the right conversations to keep project momentum and deliver on time
Expectation Management - Ensure stakeholders know what to expect, what the plan is, and when things are expected to be completed
Risk Management - Understand and communicate risks to project scope and goals, as well as impacts to project timelines and client ROI
Grow & Scale- Leverage your experience scaling and growing to help refine playbook and processes
Communication - Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication
Problem Solving - Understand a problem at its core, and eagerness to find solutions based on first principles
SLAs - Adherence to service level agreements dictating project and communication standards with external stakeholders

About You

Background in engineering - trained in problem solving to aid strategic thinking and can discuss technical requirements with factory process engineers. Nice to have - industrial engineering or manufacturing experience.
Experience scaling and growing a product
Extremely organized - nice to have experience with Sharepoint, Confluence, etc.
Provide regional support for the <APAC, EMEA, LATAM>. Meaning, your working hours will match regional time zones (H2Ok is currently most interested in CET timezone support) and you will be the point person for travel within your designated region.
Supporting the CET timezone.
Experience with customer support platforms such as Plain and tracking SLAs.
Can analyze complex data to present clear conclusions.
Eager to travel - visit customer deployments globally
Eager to learn - explore multiple use cases
Determined & extremely passionate about sustainability - do-what-it-takes attitude
Nice to have - bilingual (including Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, French, or German) and can discuss technical requirements proficiently in multiple languages
Nice to have - UI/UX background for turning customer inquiries into feature specifications
Excellent communication skills to articulate technical issues, solutions, and progress effectively.
Adaptability to learn new technologies and adapt to evolving project requirements.

Benefits

Direct impact on product and culture.
Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
401k plan with employer matching
Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
Opportunities for growth and professional development.
Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.

Learn How We Think

Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
A customer story: Ben & Jerry's uses H2Ok's precision automation to cut time & water usage

Why Laminar?

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you are unsure you are a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you.

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