# Sr. Technical Program Manager

**Company:** [AKASA](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/akasa)
**Location:** South San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $160k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Jira, GitHub, superset, Tableau, Looker, SDLC, Scrum, uat, Generative AI, Agile
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Sr. Technical Program Manager responsible for managing the full SDLC of AI healthcare products, from timelines and specs to deployment and UAT. Requires strong technical background, Jira expertise, cross-functional communication, and experience driving complex projects in a startup environment.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Manage the SDLC for our products from start to finish, including creating timelines and milestones for key product initiatives, breaking down product specifications into manageable development deliverables, and serving as a key point of contact for final testing, deployment, and hypercare support.
- Understand technical tradeoffs and/or blockers and seamlessly communicate them to non-technical audiences, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Utilize data to drive decision-making, conflict resolution, and creative problem-solving.
- Define and execute comprehensive UAT plans, coordinating test cases, issue tracking, and stakeholder sign-off to ensure successful product readiness.
- Own the scrum process and make improvements when necessary to accelerate team velocity.
- Be accountable for schedules, track and report progress regularly to all stakeholders while mitigating risks along the way.
- Work with engineering leadership to clearly define monthly, and quarterly objectives for engineering teams.
- Act as the swiss army knife for your project team and step in to fill in any gaps not covered by team members.
- Ensure the quality and completeness of product and project requirement documents.
- Keep the focus on top priorities while shielding the team from distractions and interferences.
- Be an advocate for agile development best practices across the organization.

## Skills & Qualifications
- Strong technical background - comfortable using software tools like Github and can understand the technical details of Generative AI products without a steep learning curve.
- Clear communicator - can effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all roles and levels of management; able to use clear, simple language to translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Detail-oriented - expert at tracking details at the lowest level and use these intricacies to inform high-level conversations.
- Jira expert - live and breathe JIRA; comfortable with JIRA project management from initializing sprints, building dashboards to visualize work, automating workflows, and querying to find specific artifacts.
- Analytical - ability to leverage intelligence dashboards in solutions such as Superset, Tableau, or Looker.
- Effective change agent - exhibit strong communication skills. Can build rapport and good working relationships with senior leaders and peers. Can separate facts from opinions, and take the perspectives of others and reach a workable solution. Flexible in how you influence leaders to achieve the right outcomes.
- Excellent executor - effectively manage complex projects and demonstrate consistent attention to detail. In ambiguous situations, able to account for unknowns and recover from setbacks well.
- Startup experience is strongly preferred.

## Compensation
Based on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $160,000 - $220,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

What We Offer
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone/internet reimbursement
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan

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