# Senior Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [NODA AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/noda-ai)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Jira, Requirements Management, Change Control, Acceptance Criteria, Agile, Safe, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Product Management, AI, Robotics, Release Coordination, Cross-Functional Facilitation
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Senior Technical Program Manager coordinating requirements, sprint execution, Jira governance, releases, and dependencies across software engineering teams. Requires 8+ years of technical program or project management experience, advanced requirements-management skills, and eligibility to obtain a security clearance.

## Job Description

## 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.

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