Technical Project Manager

About the role

We are seeking a software-focused Technical Program Manager to drive execution across complex robotics software programs. This role will support roadmap execution, feature delivery, release coordination, dependency management, program health tracking, and leadership reporting.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end execution of software initiatives from requirements intake through release readiness and post-launch validation.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, owners, and critical path.
• Partner with engineering leads to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, sequence work, and manage delivery tradeoffs.
• Cookordination roadmap execution and feature delivery across software teams with interdependent deliverables.
• Manage release schedules, readiness reviews, launch criteria, and follow-up actions.
• Develop and maintain program health mechanisms, including dashboards, KPI/SLA tracking, dependency trackers, risk registers, and status reports.
• Provide concise, structured updates to leadership on progress, risks, blockers, mitigation plans, and decision points.
• Identify delivery risks early, drive mitigation plans, and escalate with clear options and tradeoffs.
• Maintain visibility into schedule health, execution confidence, open issues, and cross-team dependencies.
• Cookordinate across software engineering, firmware, controls, systems engineering, QA/test, operations, deployment, support, and other partner teams as needed.
• Drive alignment across teams with competing priorities, technical dependencies, and shifting timelines.
• Facilitate execution cadences such as planning reviews, dependency reviews, risk reviews, and release readiness reviews.
• Create clear ownership, follow-through, and accountability across workstreams without relying on direct authority.
• Translate stakeholder goals and program needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Understand software development lifecycles well enough to challenge assumptions, clarify estimates, identify dependency risk, and support technical tradeoff discussions.
• Support delivery in complex environments such as robotics, automation, embedded systems, controls, platform services, distributed systems, or hardware/software integrated products.

Requirements

• 3+ years of Technical Program Management/Technical Project Management experience supporting software engineering teams.
• Proven experience driving delivery of software products, platforms, features, or technical capabilities.
• Strong program management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, dependency, risk, issue, quality, and critical path management.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams with critical technical dependencies.
• Experience coordinating roadmap execution, engineering milestones, and release schedules.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including leadership-facing status reporting and escalation management.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.
• Strong ownership, follow-through, bias for action, and ability to drive accountability across teams.