Technical Program Manager Finance Technology

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

Series F+Recently funded
San Diego, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will manage Jira and maintain clear delivery priorities, ownership, progress, and dependencies. You will serve as Scrum Master, coordinate cross-functional finance technology programs, improve capacity planning, surface risks, and strengthen release readiness and handoffs.

Requirements

  • Experience leading cross-functional technical programs involving data, enterprise systems, or business applications.
  • Jira management experience.
  • Scrum Master experience.
  • Organization, attention to detail, and executive and team communication skills.
  • Ability to manage dependencies and influence decisions across teams without direct authority.
  • Experience using operational insights to improve capacity planning, delivery effectiveness, and team health.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Jira and maintain visibility into priorities, ownership, progress, and dependencies.
  • Serve as Scrum Master and facilitate planning, delivery reviews, retrospectives, and impediment removal.
  • Establish intake, prioritization, and capacity planning practices.
  • Coordinate programs spanning planning, data products, and finance applications.
  • Recommend resource allocation, sequencing, and sustainable workloads using delivery trends and team feedback.
  • Surface risks and tradeoffs and present actionable options to leadership.
  • Improve delivery practices, release readiness, and handoffs.

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity