Robotics Technical Program Manager – End-to-End Delivery

Skild AI Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Skild AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own delivery across programs that scale robots to new sites, applications, and robot types. You will run product releases, hardware builds, and customer deployments that take robots to production, coordinating with engineering, product, and operations leaders.

You will report to the Senior Director of Product & Engineering and own how programs are planned, tracked, and delivered, providing leadership with visibility into progress, risks, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, CS or related field.
• 5+ years of technical program management experience on hardware and/or software products.
• Proven track record shipping physical products end to end in robotics or related fields.
• Experience managing programs across multiple cross-functional teams with external dependencies.
• Experience spanning hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services.
• Experience establishing and scaling program management and Agile practices in fast-paced companies.
• Hands-on configuring Linear and Notion and building dashboards for leadership.
• Ability to build strong relationships with engineering, product, and executive leaders and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Scripting or automation skills, or Scrum Master or PMP certification, are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of concurrent programs, from software releases to hardware builds and customer deployments.
• Coordinate dependencies across engineering, product, and operations so work lands in the right order.
• Surface schedule, technical, and resourcing risks early, drive mitigation, and present trade-offs to leadership with clear options.
• Lead roadmap and quarterly planning with engineering leads so commitments match team capacity.
• Run lightweight, Agile-aligned processes for planning, release readiness, and retrospectives, tailored to each team’s size and maturity.
• Build dashboards and run program reviews that give leadership a single, trusted view of status, risk, and capacity.
• Write clear program updates, decision memos, and post-mortems.
• Own and evolve how we use Linear and Notion so plans, dependencies, and decisions are easy to track and find.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS or related

Tools

Linear

Notion

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Skild AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own delivery across programs that scale robots to new sites, applications, and robot types. You will run product releases, hardware builds, and customer deployments that take robots to production, coordinating with engineering, product, and operations leaders.

You will report to the Senior Director of Product & Engineering and own how programs are planned, tracked, and delivered, providing leadership with visibility into progress, risks, and