About the Role
We are seeking a high-velocity Technical Program Manager (TPM) to serve as the “connective tissue” of our organization. Following the TPM model championed by the company, you will act as a Chief of Staff for Engineering and Product, responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the most complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives. You will manage the massive interdependencies between disparate project streams: Robotics, Hardware Engineering, Data Analytics, Wearables, and Agentic AI. Your goal is to ensure that these teams aren’t working in silos. You will own the “Big Picture,” identifying blockers before they become crises, aligning priorities across departments, and ensuring that every team, from the robotics lab to the mobile app team, is moving toward a unified set of objectives.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Cross-Functional Orchestration & Dependency Mapping
- Identify and manage the “critical path” for complex product launches (e.g., integrating a new robot into a multi-tenant residential building).
- Map out interdependencies between hardware lead times, software sprint cycles, and data model training milestones.
- Ensure that the Robotics team knows what the Data Analytics team needs, and the Product team knows what the Deployment Engineers are capable of delivering.
2. Blockage Removal & Velocity Management
- Act as the primary “Blocker Buster.” You are responsible for identifying, escalating, and resolving technical or resource-based hurdles that slow down any team.
- Drive high-velocity execution using Kanban and Agile methodologies, ensuring that work is flowing and “Work in Progress” (WIP) is optimized.
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives across multiple workstreams to maintain a high “heartbeat” of progress.
3. Strategic Alignment & Reporting
- Maintain a “Single Source of Truth” for all project statuses, priorities, and objectives.
- Translate complex technical progress into clear, accurate executive reports for leadership.
- Ensure that every team member understands the Why behind their current priority, ensuring alignment with the organization’s overarching commercial and residential goals.
4. Process Engineering & Governance
- Develop and refine the “Operating System” for how the organization builds products. This includes standardizing how we move from prototype (Robotics Lab) to production deployment.
- Establish clear KPIs for project health, delivery speed, and quality benchmarks.
- Manage the “Change Management” process, ensuring that when a hardware spec changes, the software and data teams are updated instantly.
Requirements
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Technical & Leadership Requirements
- Program Management: Amazonian TPM Model, Critical Path Analysis, Risk Mitigation, Resource Allocation
- Methodologies: Expert-level Kanban, Scrum, Agile, Lean Manufacturing principles
- Technical Literacy: Ability to speak “Engineer” across Robotics (ROS), AI (LLMs/RAG), and Infrastructure (Docker/K8s)
- Communication: Exceptional ability to distill complex technical status into concise executive summaries
- Tooling: Jira, Linear, Asana, Notion (Expert), and advanced data visualization tools
- Leadership: “Chief of Staff” mindset: High emotional intelligence, decisive ownership, and radical accountability
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Complex Hardware/Software Integration: Proven track record of managing products that involve physical hardware (Robotics, IoT, or Wearables).
- Scale Experience: Experience managing programs that involve multi-tenant deployments or large-scale infrastructure rollouts.
- Systems Thinking: You don’t just see a task; you see the ripple effect that task has on five other teams.
- High-Pressure Decision Making: Comfortable making “good enough” decisions quickly to keep the momentum moving.
Why This Role?
This is a high-leverage role with a direct impact on the company’s success. You are the person who makes the impossible possible by organizing chaos into a structured, high-velocity machine. You will have a “seat at the table” for every major decision, shaping how we build the future of ambient intelligence.
Additional Suggestions for the Candidate
- Ownership Mindset: We are looking for someone who says “I will handle it” rather than “That’s not my department.”
- Data-Driven: You should be able to back up your project status with data, not just “feelings” about progress.
- The “Amazonian” Way: We value the ability to “Work Backwards.” Start with the customer’s need for a perfect smart home, and then map out every technical step required to get there.
Compensation
This role offers a competitive salary with benefits as per the company’s band structure, seeking the right candidate to lead this function.
