Strategic Technical Program Manager: Cross-Functional

Orbital Insight

United States

On-site

USD 160,000 - 200,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Privateer Space, Inc. is seeking an Operational Technical Program Manager (TPM) to bring structure, visibility, and execution discipline to complex engineering initiatives and federal project opportunities.

You will connect technical teams with business functions, align priorities, and drive timely decisions across multiple departments. You will build scalable processes and dashboards, shape how federal opportunities are evaluated, and provide consolidated status updates to executives.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Program Management, Engineering Operations, or a related discipline.
Experience managing complex, cross-functional technical programs involving engineering teams.
Strong experience with project planning, dependency management, risk management, and milestone tracking.
Experience working directly with engineering and technical teams.
Strong organizational and operational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to drive accountability without having direct authority over the teams involved.
Experience building and improving operational processes and workflows.

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end execution of engineering projects, ensuring deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and timelines remain visible and on track.
Partner with engineering and technical leaders to develop and maintain integrated project plans and execution roadmaps.
Proactively identify, track, and resolve schedule risks, resource constraints, dependencies, blockers, and critical-path issues.
Establish clear mechanisms for communicating project progress, risks, decisions, scope changes, and timeline changes across stakeholders.
Own and manage the standardized federal opportunity assessment process from initial intake through Ag/No-Go decision.
Coordinate cross-functional assessments across Engineering, Product, Business Development, Capture, Contracts, Finance, Security, Operations, and Executive Leadership.
Coordinate technical feasibility and solution assessments, including engineering effort, resource requirements, schedule, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and capacity considerations.
Ensure opportunity assessment requirements, deliverables, assumptions, risks, open questions, and decision rationale are clearly documented and communicated.
Provide leadership with a consolidated view of project and opportunity status, risks, resource needs, and upcoming decision points.
Develop repeatable processes, templates, dashboards, and operating mechanisms that improve program execution and decision-making.
Establish and monitor operational KPIs to improve predictability, efficiency, delivery performance, and opportunity assessment cycle times.
Continuously improve program and operational processes by incorporating performance data, lessons learned, and stakeholder feedback.
Translate complex technical and operational information into concise, actionable reporting and business-level communication for engineering and executive leadership.