Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement intake and refinement sessions, translating product intent into clear, testable, well-scoped engineering requirements and owning associated acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirement traceability from initiative to epic to story to acceptance criteria.
• Enforce scope discipline through the release cycle and manage changes through an explicit intake and change-control process.
• Keep initiative, epic, and story status current in Jira; own the blocked-initiative log and coordinate state transitions with Project Engineers.
• Enforce Jira hygiene conventions, including fields, labels, components, and definitions of ready and done.
• Run Core Engineering sprint ceremonies, including planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Prepare agendas, facilitate ceremonies, document follow-up notes, and track action items.
• Manage cross-team dependencies across Core, Systems, Solutions, and Release Engineering.
• Produce concise, audience-relevant technical briefs to advance programs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical program or project management experience supporting software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated mastery of requirements management, including intake, refinement, traceability, and change control on complex programs.
• Advanced Jira fluency, including configuring dashboards, workflows, and custom reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate strategic vision into executable plans.
• Experience establishing and driving adoption of new process frameworks or operating models from scratch.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Ability to work in a hybrid, on-site environment with up to 10% travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in defense technology, aerospace, robotics, or another regulated or mission-critical domain.
• Agile or project management certifications, such as SAFe, Scrum Alliance, PMP, or Lean Six Sigma.
• Experience in product management, change management, or process improvement.
• Experience operating in a highly technical, AI-focused team environment.

Skills and Attributes

• Critical thinking, proactive collaboration, and ownership.
• Precision in requirements management and a structured approach to ambiguity.
• Strong Jira workflow-governance and administration capabilities.
• Proactive risk communication.
• Cross-functional facilitation and stakeholder-translation skills.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Equity grants for new hires.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 11 paid holidays and an additional holiday hiatus.
• Generous parental leave.
• Military leave for annual training or service requirements.
• FSA, DCFSA, and HSA options.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Access to One Medical.
• 24/7 mental health resources, including therapy.
• Free legal and financial support services.