Senior Technical Program Manager: AI-Driven, Scale & Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Kforce is hiring a Technical Program Manager in Foster City, CA to lead end-to-end, multi-team initiatives with significant business impact. You will partner with senior engineering and product leaders to influence roadmaps, resource decisions, and priorities, while defining scalable PM frameworks and managing cross-team dependencies.

You will drive risk management, communicate with executive audiences, and contribute to architectural scoping discussions, leveraging deep technical intuition and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management.
• Deep experience managing multi-team software programs across the full SDLC.
• Strong technical foundation for architectural discussions and risk evaluation.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence; able to influence without authority.
• Experience building or improving program management processes and tooling.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity under pressure.
• Familiarity with AI tools to inform design decisions and with agentic AI models.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-team initiatives with significant business impact.
• Partner with VP- and Director-level engineering/product leaders to influence roadmaps and priorities.
• Define and evolve program management frameworks, processes, and best practices across the org.
• Manage complex dependencies across teams and external partners; balance priorities.
• Anticipate risks, escalations, and trade-offs at program/portfolio level; minimize impact.
• Communicate technical complexity in business terms to executive audiences.
• Contribute to architectural and technical scoping discussions to validate feasibility.

Skills

Technical program mgmt

Multi-team leadership

Executive communication

Strategic influence

AI-assisted decision making

Cloud & distributed systems

Tools

Kafka (kafkajs)

Protobuf

AWS

Job description

Kforce is hiring a Technical Program Manager in Foster City, CA to lead end-to-end, multi-team initiatives with significant business impact. You will partner with senior engineering and product leaders to influence roadmaps, resource decisions, and priorities, while defining scalable PM frameworks and managing cross-team dependencies.

You will drive risk management, communicate with executive audiences, and contribute to architectural scoping discussions, leveraging deep technical intuition and