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Salary: USD 100,000 - 300,000 / annual
Skild AI is building general-purpose robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios. The company is Series B-funded and focused on scaling robots to new customer sites, applications, and robot types through data-driven machine learning.
As Technical Program Manager, you will own end-to-end delivery of concurrent programs spanning software releases, hardware builds, and customer deployments. You will report to the Senior Director of Product & Engineering and serve as the central coordinator across engineering, product, and operations teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning delivery of concurrent programs from conception through production, holding teams to clear commitments and milestones
- Coordinating dependencies across engineering, product, and operations to sequence work correctly
- Surfacing schedule, technical, and resourcing risks early, driving mitigation, and presenting trade-offs to leadership
- Leading roadmap and quarterly planning with engineering leads to align commitments with team capacity
- Establishing and refining lightweight, Agile-aligned processes for planning, release readiness, and retrospectives
- Building dashboards and running program reviews that provide leadership with a single, trusted view of status, risk, and capacity
- Writing clear program updates, decision memos, and post-mortems
- Owning and evolving the use of Linear and Notion to ensure plans, dependencies, and decisions are trackable and discoverable
This role offers the opportunity to shape how a fast-growing company executes and to build out the program management function over time.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of technical program management experience on hardware and/or software products
- Proven track record of shipping physical products end-to-end in robotics, consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, or similar industries, including sustaining releases after launch
- Experience managing programs across multiple cross-functional teams with external dependencies
- Experience running programs that span hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services, with sufficient technical depth to challenge estimates and spot integration risks
- Experience establishing and scaling program management and Agile practices in fast-paced, growing companies
- Hands-on experience configuring Linear and Notion (or similar tools such as Jira and Confluence) and building dashboards that leaders rely on
- Ability to build strong relationships with engineering, product, and executive leaders and drive decisions without direct authority
- Plus: scripting or automation skills, or Scrum Master or PMP certification
