Senior Technical Project Manager, IT

🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California, Texas – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $100k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 IT Support

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Shield AI

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚀 Aerospace

Artificial Intelligence • Aerospace • Defense

Shield AI is a leading developer of AI-driven military solutions, focusing on enhancing mission autonomy and battlefield awareness. Their platform, Hivemind, enables rapid deployment of intelligent systems for various defense applications, including drone operation and surveillance. With a commitment to utilizing advanced technology, Shield AI aims to protect service members and civilians by revolutionizing defense technologies through autonomous systems.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical programs and projects — spanning software development, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, and system integrations — from initiation through to production release and stabilization • Act as the connective tissue across cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Design, Data, DevOps, Security, and Business Operations — aligning priorities, resolving blockers, and maintaining delivery momentum • Design, implement, and continuously improve project delivery processes and workflows tailored to the organization’s technical context — including intake and scoping, sprint ceremonies, release coordination, dependency tracking, and post-delivery retrospectives • Develop and own project delivery artefacts: project charters, detailed plans and schedules, RACI matrices, risk registers, status dashboards, and decision logs; always keep them current and decision-relevant • Establish and manage governance structures including steering committees, technical review checkpoints, change control processes, and escalation paths appropriate to the complexity and risk profile of each initiative • Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align technical roadmaps with business priorities; facilitate trade-off conversations around scope, capacity, technical debt, and delivery sequencing • Proactively surface and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams; develop mitigation strategies and drive resolution with clarity, urgency, and accountability • Own project financials — track budgets, actuals, and forecasts; report variances to leadership with context and corrective actions • Facilitate requirements clarification, technical scoping, and estimation sessions in partnership with engineering leads, architects, and product managers; translate business needs into well-defined delivery scope • Drive and coordinate cross-team release planning, sprint reviews, and PI planning ceremonies in agile and scaled agile environments; ensure dependencies between squads are visible and managed • Define and embed delivery metrics and reporting frameworks — velocity, cycle time, delivery predictability, risk exposure — to give leadership clear, real-time visibility across the portfolio • Lead change management and communication planning for technically complex initiatives; ensure impacted teams and stakeholders are informed, prepared, and aligned throughout delivery • Develop and maintain process documentation, delivery playbooks, workflow standards, and tooling guidance; institutionalize best practices so delivery quality scales beyond individual programmes • Prepare and present concise, well-structured executive status updates, programme reviews, and decision packages for senior technical and business leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of project or program management experience, with a consistent focus on technical or technology-led initiatives including software development, platform engineering, data or cloud program • Demonstrable experience working across cross-functional technical teams — IT, Product, Design, Data, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security — acting as an integrator who drives alignment and delivery across organizational boundaries • Proven ability to design and implement delivery processes and workflows from scratch or in under-defined environments; able to assess what’s needed, build pragmatically, and iterate based on what works • Strong grasp of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and technical delivery patterns — including CI/CD pipelines, sprint-based delivery, release trains, and environment management — sufficient to manage delivery risk and engage credibly with engineering teams • Hands-on experience with agile and hybrid delivery frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or equivalent; comfortable designing the right delivery model for the program rather than applying a single methodology dogmatically • Strong command of core PM disciplines: scope management, scheduling, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, budget oversight, resource planning, and executive reporting • Experience with modern project and engineering tooling: Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Linear, Notion, or equivalent; able to configure and adapt tooling to support team workflows and leadership visibility • Excellent facilitation and communication skills — able to run complex multi-team workshops, lead technical planning sessions, and present clearly to both engineering audiences and executive stakeholders • PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification (or demonstrated applied experience at equivalent level); agile certifications welcomed • High degree of autonomy and self-direction — comfortable operating in ambiguous environments with minimal structural support; able to build structure where it doesn’t yet exist.

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity • Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)