Director of Technical Program Management

What will your job look like:

• Lead and develop the Technical Program Management team , including hiring, coaching, professional development, and establishing clear ownership and accountability across programs.

• Own the end-to-end execution model across major R&D programs, ensuring alignment between company strategy, product roadmaps, engineering plans, and delivery commitments.

• Establish and continuously improve program management methodologies, governance, execution standards, and management mechanisms across the organization.

• Ensure Technical Program Managers build and maintain integrated execution plans covering feature development, software and algorithm integration, validation, data readiness, infrastructure capacity, and major technical dependencies.

• Provide senior leadership with objective and transparent visibility into program status, delivery readiness, key risks, dependencies, and required management decisions and trade-offs .

• Drive cross-organizational planning and execution across Research, Software Engineering, Product, Validation, Data, DevOps, and Infrastructure.

• Define and drive execution KPIs and success criteria that enable predictable delivery, early identification of gaps, and data-driven decision-making.

• Identify systemic and program-level bottlenecks and ensure corrective actions are clearly defined, owned, and driven to closure.

• Lead critical program escalations and drive resolution of complex cross-functional issues involving technical dependencies, resource constraints, integration challenges, validation gaps, and infrastructure limitations.

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap planning, ensuring that scope and commitments are aligned with organizational capacity, technical dependencies, validation bandwidth, infrastructure, and data availability.

• Drive prioritization and resource trade-offs across programs , ensuring resources are focused on the company's highest-value priorities.

• Establish a strong culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, and execution excellence across the Technical Program Management organization and its stakeholders.

• Represent program execution in senior leadership forums, ensuring that critical risks, dependencies, and decisions are surfaced early and supported by clear data and recommendations.

• Maintain sufficient technical depth to challenge assumptions, understand complex engineering issues, and guide Technical Program Managers in driving effective solutions.

All you need is:

• BSc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of experience in complex software/R&D environments , including significant experience leading large-scale, cross-organizational technical programs.

• Proven leadership experience managing and developing Technical Program Managers, Program Managers, or similar technical execution teams.

• Strong technical background, preferably including previous hands-on software development or engineering experience.

• Strong understanding of modern software development processes, system integration, CI/CD, testing, validation, data pipelines, and large-scale development environments.

• Demonstrated experience driving complex programs involving multiple engineering organizations, technologies, dependencies, and competing priorities.

• Proven ability to work effectively with senior Engineering, Product, and business leadership , influence strategic and technical decisions, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.

• Ability to understand complex technical architectures, engineering plans, KPIs, and development outputs and translate them into execution risks, priorities, and management decisions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to identify systemic issues and drive organizations toward practical solutions.

• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills .

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment characterized by technical complexity, ambiguity, changing priorities, and high execution expectations.