Senior Staff Technical Program Manager

Therobotage; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI in Washington, DC is seeking a senior staff Technical Program Manager for Hivemind Catalyst. You will bridge technology, strategy, and delivery to help customers define autonomy roadmaps and oversee their implementation.

In this leadership role, you will align internal software and engineering teams around customer delivery, craft executive-facing program structures, and drive the productization of the autonomy platform for external adoption and testing.

Qualifications

• Senior staff-level technical program management experience.
• Strong technical judgment around autonomy, robotics, AI, or complex software platforms.
• Ability to work with senior engineering leaders, business leaders, partners, and customers.
• Clear executive communication in ambiguous technical and strategic environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical program management for Hivemind Catalyst customer programs.
• Help customers define autonomy roadmaps and technical solution paths.
• Align internal software and engineering teams around customer delivery.
• Create structure for ambiguous, executive-facing autonomy programs.

Skills

Senior TPM leadership

Technical judgment

Stakeholder coordination

Executive communication

Job description

What the role actually is

Shield AI is hiring a senior staff TPM for Hivemind Catalyst, the company's path for helping customers develop, integrate, test, and deploy autonomous capabilities on their own platforms.

This role sits between technology, strategy, business development, and execution. The person would help customers shape autonomy roadmaps while coordinating internal software, engineering, and business teams around delivery.

What you would work on

• Lead technical program management for Hivemind Catalyst customer programs
• Help customers define autonomy roadmaps and technical solution paths
• Align internal software and engineering teams around customer delivery
• Create structure for ambiguous, executive-facing autonomy programs

What they are asking for

• Senior staff-level technical program management experience
• Strong technical judgment around autonomy, robotics, AI, or complex software platforms
• Ability to work with senior engineering leaders, business leaders, partners, and customers
• Clear executive communication in ambiguous technical and strategic environments

Why this one is worth a look

This is not just program tracking; it is the customer-facing productization layer for an autonomy platform. The interesting challenge is turning Hivemind from internal autonomy technology into something outside teams can adopt, test, and deploy.