Senior Technical Program Manager

Kforce Inc; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc. in Foster City, CA seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to own two portfolios: remote assistance/teleoperations tooling and a consumer mobile app experience.

You will be the single accountable owner for status, risk, and stakeholder alignment across both portfolios, collaborating with program managers and driving cross-team workstreams. You will lead end-to-end delivery across current and future vehicle software releases and enablement work, while negotiating scope with

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in engineering or program management.
• Experience delivering operational or operator-facing tooling at scale (fleet management, dispatch, remote assistance, logistics or related systems).
• Experience delivering consumer-facing product, ideally a consumer mobile app.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across both portfolios and vehicle software releases.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for milestones and executive leadership.
• Drive execution directly for workstreams without a dedicated program manager.
• Negotiate scope and sequencing with engineering; manage dependencies on autonomy capabilities.
• Surface blockers and risk and drive them to resolution or escalation.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders during quarterly planning to arbitrate scope.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmapping

Strategic thinking

Education

BS or MS in engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Kforce has a client in Foster City, CA seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager. As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) on this team, you will own two portfolios. The first covers remote assistance and teleoperations tooling, mission dispatch and readiness, fleet response and vehicle recovery, vehicle diagnostics and repair workflows, operator-facing fleet monitoring, rider support tooling, and the shared services platform underneath them. Your goal is to reduce the human effort required to run every mission while raising the reliability of the systems our operations teams depend on. The second portfolio covers the consumer mobile app, along with the in-vehicle rider experience and the display application and platform it runs on. You will be the single accountable owner for status, risk, and stakeholder alignment across both portfolios, partnering with the program managers who drive individual workstreams and driving workstreams directly where no dedicated owner exists.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across both portfolios, spanning current and future vehicle software releases as well as enablement work that does not map to a single release
• Serve as the primary point of contact for milestone and executive leadership, synthesizing status across workstreams into a consistent view and a clear outlook against company objectives
• Drive execution directly for workstreams without a dedicated program manager
• Negotiate scope and sequencing with engineering, manage dependencies on autonomy capabilities, and represent the needs of the operations teams who are your primary customers
• Surface blockers, dependency gaps, and scope risk immediately and drive them to resolution or escalation
• Partner with product and engineering leaders during quarterly planning to arbitrate scope, expose what is unfunded, and make tradeoffs explicit before they become schedule surprises

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience in engineering or program management, with a track record of owning complex technical programs end to end
• Experience delivering operational or operator-facing tooling at scale - fleet management, dispatch, remote assistance, logistics, or support systems where reliability and real-time performance are non-negotiable
• Experience delivering consumer-facing product, ideally a consumer mobile application, and familiarity with how consumer product teams operate
• Working familiarity with autonomy, robotics, or another complex safety-critical domain. Much of our scope is integration work with such systems, and you should be able to hold a credible technical conversation about degraded-mode behavior and system safety constraints
• Proven ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries
• Expert proficiency with Jira for managing complex software development backlogs and cross-team dependencies
• Excellent roadmapping skills, with a talent for breaking strategic plans into tactical steps and identifying critical path across independently planned workstreams
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on continuous process improvement
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, tailored to both technical and leadership audiences
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, and to establish structure and drive progress where the problem space is ambiguous and still evolving

Bonus

• Experience at a ridesharing, delivery, logistics, or marketplace company where operational cost per trip was a tracked business metric
• Experience developing and scaling engineering or operational programs and processes from scratch
• Background in consumer mobile at scale, including accessibility standards and localization

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.