# Technical Program Manager

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Technical Program Manager at Shield AI, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of Hivemind Enterprise, a software development kit that enables both Shield AI and third parties to create a new generation of unmanned systems and mission applications that deliver transformative capabilities for the U.S. and its allies.

You will work with sponsors, product managers, designers, and a talented cross-functional engineering team to lead on-time, on-quality software releases. This Technical Program Manager role requires a versatile individual who can plan and manage complex software test automation projects and flight test operations.

Key responsibilities:

- Drive the planning, execution, and delivery of complex software releases for the Hivemind Enterprise platform

- Drive major initiatives building out rigorous simulation-based test automation for autonomy software

- Drive large complex test operations from CI through HIL and flight test

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and customer engagement, to define test scope, objectives, and deliverables

- Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation, ensuring adherence to budget and schedule

- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project completion

- Facilitate regular communication with stakeholders, providing updates on project status, challenges, and accomplishments

- Drive continuous improvement in project management processes, tools, and methodologies

- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence within the program management team

- Facilitate technical decision-making to appropriately prioritize work and make complex trades

- Reinforce Shield AI's reputation for technical excellence and ability to deliver through expert engagement and disciplined execution

Required qualifications:

- B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field with 8+ years of work experience in Program Management, Engineering Management, or Software Test Engineering

- Experience driving testing of complex software and integrated HW/SW systems

- Experience driving release management and software test operations

- A track record of driving results, not just providing status

- Solid technical foundations in test engineering and software development, with deep knowledge of how to optimize the software development lifecycle

- Ability to recognize efficiency and inefficiency in projects and prioritize remedies based on accurate cost-benefit analysis

- Exceptional, fundamentals-driven problem-solving and communication skills

- Demonstrated record of setting and achieving goals in dynamic environments, working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

- Power user of Jira or work management tools

Preferred qualifications:

- Advanced degree in Computer Science or MBA

- Previous experience as a software developer or a test engineer

- Previous experience driving software releases or test operations for enterprise software used by software engineers

- Passionate about software documentation

- Autonomy, AI, ML expertise

- PMP, Scrum Master, or similar qualifications

## Skills

### Required
- Program Management
- Software Test Engineering
- Test Automation
- Flight Test Operations
- Jira
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Autonomy
- AI
- ML
- Software Development
- PMP
- Scrum Master

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