Staff Technical Program Manager

Voya Energy, Inc.; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited PTO

100% employer paid medical, dental, &

401(k) plan with employer match

Job summary

Voya Energy, Inc. seeks a Staff Technical Program Manager to establish and run the company-wide program management system, aligning technical, commercial, and operational priorities.

The role sits in Strategy & Operations and requires coordinating with product development, engineering, technology, fuel operations, and customer deployments. The ideal candidate blends technical depth with structured business judgment, with experience in engineering or hardware product development and the ability

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience, combining hands-on technical work with program management.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical sciences, or another technical field; MBA or advanced degree a plus.
• Strong technical fluency to understand hardware/product development timelines, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Strong program management fundamentals: milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decision points, critical path items, escalation paths.
• Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders and evolving timelines.
• Ability to move between technical detail and executive-level synthesis.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain integrated roadmaps, master timelines, dashboards, trackers, and leadership reporting systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate complex discussions into decisions and action items.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strong working understanding of Voya’s technology, engineering, product roadmap, and fuel strategy.
• Work with leaders to build and maintain a clear view of milestones, owners, timelines, dependencies, risks, blockers, and decisions.
• Own and maintain Voya’s company master timeline across product, engineering, technology, commercial, and fuels.
• Create and maintain program dashboards, trackers, and operating documents for leadership visibility.
• Support planning processes, including semi-annual and monthly planning, OKR tracking, milestone reviews, and roadmap alignment.
• Improve internal systems across tools such as Asana, Confluence, Google Drive, Slack.
• Help make Voya’s internal operating model clearer, cleaner, and more scalable (meeting cadences, workflows, etc.).

Skills

Program management

Technical fluency

Cross-functional teamwork

Executive communication

Roadmap development

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/physical sciences

MBA or advanced degree

Tools

Asana

Confluence

Google Drive

Slack

Job description

Voya Energy is commercializing a groundbreaking metal-based fuel to rapidly deploy reliable, clean, affordable electricity anywhere on Earth.

Our breakthrough technology allows us to convert abundant, high-energy, recycled metals into a powerful, safe, durable fuel. We are also creating a foundational new category of energy generation devices, delivering fast access to power, free from the limitations of the grid.

We are assembling a highly experienced team of visionary founders, tenacious researchers, battle-tested operators, and world-class investors to deliver on Voya’s ambitious mission.

Join us in fueling our electric future!

Position Summary

Voya Energy is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to help build and run the company-level program management system that keeps Voya executing against its most important technical, commercial, and operational priorities.

This role sits within Strategy & Operations and is designed for a strong cross‑functional program manager who can operate at the corporate level while also engaging deeply with technical programs to understand timelines, dependencies, risks, and execution tradeoffs. Voya is developing a new category of energy generation technology, which requires tight coordination across product development, engineering, technology, fuel operations, and customer deployments. We need someone who can bring structure to these interconnected workstreams and give leadership clear visibility into what is on track, what is blocked, what depends on what, and where decisions are needed.

The ideal candidate combines technical depth with structured business judgment. They may come from engineering, hardware product development, technical program management, applied science, or technical consulting, but they must be able to move comfortably between technical detail and executive‑level synthesis.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a strong working understanding of Voya’s technology, engineering, product roadmap, and fuel strategy
• Work closely with functional leaders to build and maintain a clear view of program milestones, owners, timelines, dependencies, risks, blockers, and decision points. Surface key gaps, misallocated resources or incorrect assumptions.
• Own and maintain Voya’s company master timeline across product, engineering, technology, commercial, and fuels.
• Create and maintain program dashboards, trackers, and operating documents that give leadership a clear, current view of execution status.
• Support planning processes, including semi‑annual planning and monthly planning sessions, OKR tracking, company milestone reviews, and long‑range roadmap coordination.
• Improve internal systems across tools such as Asana, Confluence, Google Drive, Slack and other company platforms.
• Help make Voya’s internal operating model clearer, cleaner, and more scalable as the company grows (ex. meeting cadences, workflows, etc.)

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience, ideally combining hands‑on technical experience with program management experience. Candidates should have direct experience in engineering, hardware development, product development, applied science, technical program management, or a related technical discipline, with the ability to understand how complex products are built and how technical teams operate.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physical sciences, or another technical field strongly preferred. Advanced technical degree or MBA a plus.
• Strong technical fluency, with the ability to understand hardware/product development timelines, engineering dependencies, technical risks, and tradeoffs.
• Strong program management fundamentals, including experience defining workstreams, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decision points, critical path items, and escalation paths.
• Experience managing cross‑functional programs with multiple stakeholders, ambiguous ownership, evolving timelines, and meaningful execution dependencies.
• Ability to move between technical detail and executive‑level synthesis.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain integrated roadmaps, master timelines, dashboards, trackers, operating documents, and leadership reporting systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to turn complex discussions into clear decisions, action items, program plans, and executive updates.
• Highly organized and detail‑oriented, with excellent follow‑through and the judgment to know when to escape.

Location

Hayward, CA. Full‑time on‑site.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity compensation commensurate with experience
• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with employer match