Senior Technical Program Manager
HybridAustin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead requirement intake and refinement sessions, translating product intent into clear, testable engineering requirements with full traceability from initiative to acceptance criteria. Own sprint ceremonies including planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives, while maintaining current Jira status and managing cross-team dependencies across Core, Systems, Solutions, and Release Engineering. Enforce scope discipline through explicit change-control processes and drive adoption of rigorous Jira hygiene conventions to ensure the tool remains a reliable system of record. Produce concise technical briefs to advance the program and free engineering leads to focus on execution.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in technical program / project management for software engineering teams
- Demonstrated mastery of requirement management — intake, refinement, traceability, and change control on complex programs
- High Jira fluency, with the ability to configure dashboards, workflows and custom reports
- Excellent verbal and written communication; able to synthesize and decompose strategic vision into clear executable plans
- Experience standing up and driving adoption of new process framework / operating models from scratch
- U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance for work
- Austin, TX (Hybrid on-site, with up to 10% travel)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in defense tech, aerospace, robotics, or another regulated/mission-critical domain
- Agile or Project Management certifications such as SAFe, Scrum Alliance, PMP, Lean Six Sigma
- Experience in product management, change management, or process improvement
- Experience operating in a highly technical, AI forward team environment
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