Technical Program Manager, Robotics and Drones

Key Responsibilities

• Define the program breakdown structure across hardware and software development, integration, validation, and deployment workstreams, and assign ownership across engineering teams.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans with scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resource assumptions, and critical path visibility aligned to product roadmap and customer commitments.
• Translate product and customer requirements into execution plans with clear entry/exit criteria, development priorities, and release readiness gates.
• Drive on-time, at-cost, and high-quality delivery of assigned programs, proactively identifying schedule risks, tradeoffs, and mitigation actions.
• Facilitate strategic and technical discussions across Product Management, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on scope and execution.
• Partner with Sensors and Compute product leaders to ensure all engineering work aligns with platform strategy, product roadmap, and reuse objectives across robotics programs.
• Support feasibility assessments for new features, customer requests, and platform enhancements, including implications for architecture, timing, resource needs, development cost, manufacturability, and performance.
• Cookordination engineering staffing needs with functional managers and technical leads to balance priorities across multiple programs.
• Drive the program operating cadence across sprint reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, change control, and executive updates.
• Establish disciplined meeting structures, agendas, and action tracking to improve accountability and execution velocity across teams.
• Communicate clear program status to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, including progress, risks, recovery plans, key decisions, and business impact.
• Manage Jira dashboards and related reporting tools to track feature readiness, sprint health, defect trends, issue closure, dependencies, and key engineering milestones.
• Proactively identify cross-functional dependencies, lead issue triage and root-cause resolution planning.
• Ownt product related resource allocation, including staffing and materials, and forecasting.

  Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of experience in technical program management, systems engineering, product development, or a related role in robotics, automotive, embedded systems, or other complex technical environments.
  • Proven track record of managing complex cross-functional programs involving both hardware and software deliverables.
  • Strong working knowledge of product development lifecycles, release planning, integration, and validation processes.
  • Experience with Agile development practices and program tracking tools such as Jira.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage ambiguity and drive decisions.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to synthesize technical detail into executive-ready updates.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple teams toward a common mission and hold teams accountable to commitments.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AMRs, drones, industrial automation, ADAS, autonomous systems, or other safety- and reliability-critical products.
  • Familiarity with robotics software stacks, perception systems, sensors, embedded compute platforms, or edge AI deployment workflows.
  • Experience managing customer-facing development programs, pilots, or launches with external partners or OEMs.
  • Exposure to regulated or standards-driven environments, including functional safety or industrial safety frameworks.
  • PMP, Agile, Scrum, or similar program/project management certification.