• Own end-to-end delivery of certification and certification-adjacent initiatives from initial request and scoping through execution, approval, and implementation. • Define initiative scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria in partnership with Product and Engineering. • Actively manage risks, assumptions, dependencies, and tradeoffs across multiple concurrent initiatives. • Drive accountability across internal teams and external partners to ensure on-time delivery. • Develop and own the long-term certification roadmap for Bluefin’s products, platforms, and features. • Prioritize certification efforts based on business needs, product launches, and regulatory requirements. • Track industry trends and changes in certification requirements to inform planning and ensure ongoing compliance. • Manage certification work as part of a broader initiative portfolio, balancing capacity, priority, and business impact. • Act as the primary point of contact for external certification partners, including device vendors, payment processors, acquirers, and compliance bodies. • Maintain up-to-date certification documentation, test plans, and technical requirements.

• Lead and mentor project teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment • Lead and manage the full lifecycle of IT projects, from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, control, and closure • Contract Execution & Delivery: Serve as the primary point of contact for government clients • Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, resource allocation, and budget • Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate regular progress reviews and technical interchange meetings • Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, fostering strong relationships • Develop and maintain project documentation, including status reports, stakeholder communications, and lessons learned • Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and client requirements • Stay current with emerging technologies, particularly in cloud computing, AI, and software development trends relevant to the public sector • Risk & Compliance Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks • Financial Oversight: Track all project costs, including labor hours and Other Direct Costs (ODCs)

• Own roadmap planning and prioritization for the Core Platform and protocol layer • Translate product direction into executable engineering programs • Improve sprint planning, estimation accuracy, and delivery predictability • Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, and leadership • Ensure strong release readiness and quality guardrails • Build lightweight processes that scale without slowing the team down • Create visibility and accountability across initiatives

• Help define how enterprise AI systems become trusted, governed, and continuously improving in production • Work directly with founding engineers to scale the Enterprise Intelligence Platform into a mission-critical layer for enterprise customers • Drive execution across systems that must be reliable, durable, backward-compatible, and production-ready • Own the roadmap and delivery for Enterprise Intelligence systems • Translate product strategy into executable multi-team plans • Manage dependencies across high-risk, high-complexity initiatives • Ensure release readiness, risk tracking, and operational checklists • Balance speed with durability, reliability, and backward compatibility • Partner directly with enterprise customers to inform roadmap priorities • Evolve planning frameworks appropriate for enterprise-scale systems