Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence with its groundbreaking, vision-powered platform. The Principal Technical Program Manager will design and implement systems to manage and prioritize engineering processes, ensuring efficiency and accountability across multiple R&D programs.
Responsibilities
- Design and roll out a program-tracking system across concurrent R&D programs, with clear owners, milestones, and risk visibility
- Build a prioritization framework that makes trade-offs explicit whenever new customer-driven scope arrives
- Map cross-team dependencies across hardware, ML, and software before they become blockers
- Establish a standard escalation and post-mortem rhythm for customer go-lives, with a single named owner for each program
- Own the prioritization and roadmap operating cadence across R&D
- Drive deployment-efficiency and configuration-management improvements with Customer Success
Skills
- Hands-on experience with hardware or hardware-plus-software systems
- 10 years of combined engineering and technical program leadership experience, with a track record driving complex hardware, robotics, or ML-based programs. Ideal candidates may have started in engineering and transitioned into program management, so deep program management experience across the entire career is not required
- A track record standing up prioritization frameworks that force explicit trade-offs, not just a stack-ranked backlog, ideally at a scaling startup or through an equivalent 0-to-1 effort within a larger company
- Experience mapping cross-functional dependencies, supporting capacity planning, and establishing operating cadences from scratch, including status readouts, escalation paths, and post-mortems
- Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, validate estimates, and drive alignment between technical execution and business objectives, with exposure to robotics, drones, computer vision, or edge and embedded hardware
- Strong command of tools like Jira or Linear, translating requirements into clear milestones and roadmap plans, with working familiarity with a major cloud platform like AWS or Azure
- Experience with deployment or field-operations programs, including physical installs, supply chain, or hardware procurement
- Background in agile or lean process facilitation and change management
- PMP certification
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