Senior Technical Project Manager

Nofence is a Norwegian scale up who has built the world’s first virtual fencing solution for livestock. As we aim to revolutionise livestock management we will need top-notch competence in our Engineering team, and we are now looking for a Senior Project Manager. Elevate your career with us and be at the forefront of innovation in agricultural technology!

Your role

Our Product & Engineering team design and develop the mechanics of our physical product and the electronics that goes into it. We develop the firmware that runs on the device and the cloud service it communicates with. We design and develop the mobile and web apps that our customers use. In short, there’s a lot of exciting work to be done, and by joining us you will be one of our keys to success!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Project Manager to join our Product & Engineering team to drive project management excellence. We also believe, and are sure you agree, that presence with our customers and observing the animals are important to further develop the product in use. In the field you will gather much information and use that input to make our product even better.

Your responsibilities

• Drive execution of cross-functional initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, with high quality, and in alignment with Nofence’s strategic goals.
• Define project plans, timelines, and milestones, while proactively managing risks, dependencies, and resources.
• Serve as the main point of coordination between product, engineering, design, operations, and other stakeholders to maintain alignment and transparency.
• Lead task forces during critical incidents, ensuring rapid coordination across teams to mitigate short- and long-term impacts.
• Run daily stand-ups or incident response meetings to ensure swift communication and decision-making.
• Ensure corrective and preventative actions are identified, implemented, and tracked to avoid recurrence of similar issues.
• Manage new hardware projects end-to-end, from concept through to mass-volume production.
• Coordinate across disciplines such as mechanical engineering, electronics, firmware, UX, manufacturing, and sourcing to ensure successful integration and delivery.
• Oversee prototype builds, testing cycles, and validation activities, ensuring issues are tracked, prioritised, and resolved.
• Partner with manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure scalability and readiness for production ramp-up.
• Advocate for data-driven decision-making and consistent use of project management tools and metrics.
• Act as the primary point of contact between management, technical teams, and other stakeholders. Provide regular updates on project progress and challenges.
• You will rely on the hardware product owner to drive the product and market requirements, while the project manager will be responsible for making sure the project is executed according to the right cost, time and quality, and fulfils those requirements set forward by the product owner.

Qualifications

The right candidate is preferred to have the following qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of project management experience, ideally in electro-mechanical or IoT product development.
• Bachelor's or Masters degree in relevant field.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and multi-tasking abilities.
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving project challenges.
• Driven and result oriented, always exploring ways to improve the timeline, cost and quality of any given project.
• Fluent English oral and written communication skills. Our working language is English.

About Nofence 

Managing livestock has always been a challenge. Humanity has tried everything from herding with dogs to walling the animals in with barbed wire, electric, and wooden fences, but these are costly and time-consuming solutions and often in conflict with the local wildlife. It has also left vast areas of potential pasture overgrown and underutilized.

Until now.

Enter virtual fences. What started as a small group of farmers and engineers with a big idea has become Nofence – the world’s first virtual fencing solution for livestock. Curious about how it works? Find out more here.

About Us

As a company still in our early stag