# Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (R5270)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 170,000-260,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot. Hivemind powers intelligent aircraft, drones, and robotic systems that operate autonomously in demanding environments. As a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Hivemind Catalyst, you will operate at the intersection of technology, strategy, business development, and execution.

## Responsibilities

### Program Leadership and Execution

- Lead technical program management activities for Hivemind customer programs.

- Develop technical execution plans driving technology maturation and successful customer outcomes.

- Establish clear milestones, entry criteria, exit criteria, and measurable success metrics across programs.

- Manage program cost, schedule, scope, risk, dependencies, and resource allocation.

- Track customer spending against contractual budgets and program commitments.

- Identify risks early and drive mitigation strategies reducing technical, schedule, and business uncertainty.

- Hold internal and external stakeholders accountable to commitments while maintaining strong customer relationships.

### Software and Roadmap Alignment

- Embed closely within Hivemind Enterprise teams to ensure customer needs are accurately represented in product and engineering priorities.

- Drive closed-loop communication between customers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.

- Support software release planning, roadmap development, prioritization, and resource allocation decisions.

- Ensure technical investments align with strategic priorities, revenue opportunities, and customer outcomes.

- Advocate for capabilities creating the greatest impact for customers and the business.

### Customer Strategy and Technical Planning

- Review and assess Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates, Statements of Work (SOWs), proposals, bids, and customer engagements.

- Develop pricing recommendations, high-level technical decompositions, project plans, and execution strategies.

- Partner with customers to define technical roadmaps accelerating development, deployment, and operationalization of sovereign autonomy capabilities.

- Help customers establish practical paths from prototype to production and mission-ready deployment.

- Support business development, capture, and growth initiatives through technical planning, proposal development, and customer engagement.

### Internal Strategic Execution

- Own and maintain technical execution roadmaps across internal Catalyst priorities.

- Create structure, prioritization frameworks, and execution plans for internal research and development efforts.

- Drive alignment across multiple technical roadmaps and identify interdependencies, conflicts, and resource constraints.

- Monitor program health, track progress against objectives, and facilitate data-driven decision making.

- Support organizational OKRs and key performance metrics through disciplined execution and reporting.

### Executive Communication and Stakeholder Management

- Develop executive-level communications, briefings, summaries, and decision materials.

- Support strategic forums such as Monthly Portfolio Reviews, Executive Steering Committees, and Quarterly Business Reviews.

- Communicate effectively with senior engineering, business, government, and international stakeholders.

- Drive alignment across technical, operational, financial, and strategic priorities.

### Strategic Initiatives

- Lead and support high-impact strategic initiatives enabling company growth and global expansion.

- Partner across engineering, legal, compliance, finance, facilities, business development, and operations teams to solve complex cross-functional challenges.

- Contribute to international expansion efforts, including establishment of new offices, partnerships, and operating models.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management within a fast-paced technology organization.

- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs involving software, systems, and external stakeholders.

- Experience developing project plans, execution roadmaps, schedules, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, release planning, and technical product roadmaps.

- Experience supporting customer-facing programs, proposals, SOW development, or technical business development activities.

- Demonstrated ability to drive clarity, alignment, and execution in ambiguous environments.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communications.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make informed decisions using incomplete information.

- Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, business development, finance, and operations organizations.

- Willingness to travel up to 25%, including domestic and international travel.

## Benefits

- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

## Skills

### Required
- Technical Program Management
- Software Development Lifecycles
- Release Planning
- Technical Product Roadmaps
- Project Plans
- Execution Roadmaps
- Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Customer-Facing Programs
- Proposals
- SOW Development
- Technical Business Development
- Executive-Level Communications
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills

### Nice to have
- Autonomy
- Robotics
- Aerospace
- Defense Technology
- Aviation
- Complex Software Platforms
- International Customers
- Partners
- Technology Programs
- Government
- Defense
- National Security Acquisition Environments
- MBA
- Master's Degree
- Advanced Technical Degree

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