Senior TPM - AI Autonomy, Security Clearance Eligible

NODA AI; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

11+ paid holidays

Parental Leave

Military Leave

FSA

DCFSA

HSA

Professional Development

Access to One Medical

Mental Health Resources

Job summary

NODA AI in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Core Engineering. You will own day-to-day coordination, sprint ceremonies, dependencies, and status reporting. Jira will be your system of record, and you will absorb coordination load to let engineers focus on development.

Required 8+ years in technical program management, strong requirement management, Jira fluency, and excellent communication skills. U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain security clearance is mandatory.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical program / project management for software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated mastery of requirement management - intake, refinement, traceability, and change control on complex programs.
• High Jira fluency, with the ability to configure dashboards, workflows and custom reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to synthesize and decompose strategic vision into clear executable plans.
• Experience standing up and driving adoption of new process framework / operating models from scratch.
• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance for work.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement intake and refinement sessions, translating product intent into clear, testable, well-scoped engineering requirements and own associated acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirement traceability from initiative -> epic -> story -> acceptance criteria so every unit of work maps to a stated need and a definition of done.
• Enforce scope discipline through the release cycle; manage changes through an explicit intake and change-control process.
• Keep initiative, epic, and story status current in Jira; own the blocked-initiative log and coordinate with Project Engineers on state transitions.
• Enforce Jira hygiene conventions (fields, labels, components, definition-of-ready/done) so the tool remains a reliable system of record.
• Own and run all Core Engineering sprint ceremonies - planning, standup, review, retro, and backlog refinement - including agenda prep, facilitation, follow-up notes, and action-item tracking.
• Manage cross-team dependencies across Core, Systems, Solutions, and Release Engineering, surfacing and resolving them before issues become a blocker.
• Produce concise, informative and audience relevant technical briefs to drive program forward.

Skills

Technical TPM

Requirement management

Jira fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

NODA AI in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Core Engineering. You will own day-to-day coordination, sprint ceremonies, dependencies, and status reporting. Jira will be your system of record, and you will absorb coordination load to let engineers focus on development.

Required 8+ years in technical program management, strong requirement management, Jira fluency, and excellent communication skills. U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain security clearance is mandatory.