Staff Technical Program Manager
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own end-to-end delivery of large technology programs, defining their structure, roadmap, and delivery strategy. You will coordinate workstreams and vendors, manage governance, risk, budgets, and go-live readiness, and translate technical status into decision-oriented executive updates.
Requirements
- 8+ years of project or program management experience
- 5+ years leading complex technology programs with multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams
- Experience delivering large-scale enterprise technology programs through go-live and stabilization
- Technical fluency in enterprise architecture, integrations, API, data migration, infrastructure, cloud, security, and SDLC testing
- Experience with program governance and executive stakeholders
- Experience managing vendors, systems integrators, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans
- Communication, influence, and decision-making skills
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of multi-workstream technology programs
- Define program structure, roadmaps, phasing, and delivery strategy
- Lead project managers, workstream leads, and vendor teams
- Drive delivery discussions across architecture, integrations, data migration, security, testing, and cutover
- Establish program governance, executive reporting, decision forums, and escalation paths
- Manage program risks, dependencies, budgets, forecasts, and resource plans
- Manage vendors and systems integrators
- Own go-live readiness, cutover strategy, rollback planning, and hypercare exit
- Improve PMO standards, tooling, and delivery practices
- Mentor project managers and communicate technical status to executives
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
