Senior Technical Program Manager (m/f/d)

HighTech Startbahn GmbH; Dresden; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

HighTech Startbahn GmbH is seeking an (Senior) Technical Program Manager to own delivery across customer-facing commitments, grant-funded initiatives, and internal programs. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, and Leadership to hit milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure clear communication.

You’ll design and run PM processes, lead cross-functional project intake and stage gates, and maintain a single source of truth for status.

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years in technical project/program management across cross-functional engineering teams (hardware, software, systems, or platform environments).
• Customer-facing delivery experience: manage external commitments, align stakeholders, and communicate clearly with customers/partners.
• Proven ability to design and operate project management processes in scaling org ( intake, prioritization, governance, cadence, reporting ).
• Strong execution mindset with clarity, accountability, and ability to navigate ambiguity.

Aufgaben

• Own delivery across multiple program types: customer requirements, delivery timelines, deployment commitments.
• Lead internal cross-functional programs and grant-funded projects with milestones and reporting.
• Define and implement project management processes and governance.
• Manage project intake, prioritization, stage gates, and dependency management across teams.
• Run kicks-offs, weekly cadences, milestone reviews, and retrospectives.
• Create clean reporting and lightweight dashboards for executives.

Kenntnisse

Technical PM

Jira

Agile & Scrum

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Tools

Jira

Jobbeschreibung

(Senior)Technical Program Manager

As (Senior) Technical Program Manager, you’llown project management across a diverse set of programs from customer-facing commitments and requirements to grant-funded projects and internal cross-functional initiatives.You’llbuild and run the project management system: processes, planning, reporting, risk management, and delivery rhythm.

You will partner closely with Engineering Leads and engineers, Product, Operations, and leadership to ensure we hit milestones, communicate clearly, and deliver reliably.

WhatYou’llDo

• Own delivery across multiple project types, including:
• customer requirements, delivery timelines, and deployment commitments
• internal cross-functional programs
• grant-funded projects (milestones, reporting, compliance coordination)
• Highly comfortable operating in an Agile environment and navigating ambiguity:
• thrive in fast-moving, iterative teams, proactively create clarity from incomplete information, and bring structure and accountability without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Define and implementSpiNNcloud’sproject management processes
• project intake and prioritization
• stage gates / milestone planning
• dependency management across teams
• change control and scope management (especially for customer commitments)
• Drive execution rigor
• run projectkick-offs, weekly cadences, milestone reviews, and retros
• follow up with teams on deliverables, timelines, and accountability
• proactively surface risks, blockers, andtrade-offswith mitigation plans
• Create clean reporting
• build lightweight dashboards and executive summaries (status, risks, ETA confidence)
• maintaina single sourceof truth for program status across the company
• Improve cross-functional communication
• translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• ensure customer-facing teams have clear delivery narratives and timelines

What We’re Looking For

• 4+years in technical project/program management, owning delivery across cross-functional engineering teams (hardware, software, systems, or platform environments).
• Customer-facing delivery experience: proven ability to manage external commitments (requirements, timelines, scope changes), align stakeholders, and communicate clearly with customers/partners.
• Demonstrated ability to design and operationalize project management processes in a scaling organization (intake, prioritization, governance, cadence, reporting).
• Strongtrack recordof driving complex, dependency-heavy programs tocompletionbalancingspeed, quality, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong execution mindset with comfort in ambiguity: you bring structure, clarity, and accountability without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Excellent stakeholder management: able to push for decisions, surface trade-offs, manage expectations, and negotiate scope and resources.
• Familiarity with Jira, Agile and Scrum.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to HPC, AIinfrastructure,ordeep-tech products.
• Experience with EU-fundedor otherpublicfundedprograms.