Technical Engineering Program Manager

PassiveLogic; Holladay (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous equity

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Disability and life insurance

Flex PTO

Team-building events

Free catered lunch in office

Free ski pass at Big Cottonwood Canyon

Free National Park pass

Job summary

PassiveLogic is seeking a Technical Engineering Program Manager to shape product roadmaps and steer engineering teams toward timely, high-value releases. You will partner with UI/UX, frontend, backend, sales, and customer success to align work streams with customer releases and strategic goals.

You will drive design fidelity, provide visibility to leadership, and explore emerging technologies to evolve our autonomous, energy, and built-environment products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PM or program management experience in a technical setting.
• Technical/engineering degree (BS/MS/PhD) in a deeply technical field.
• Experience applying waterfall, agile or Kanban methodologies effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication for cross-functional teams.
• Ability to create and manage product roadmaps and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product roadmaps; guide engineering through work streams.
• Clear communication of plans, progress, and roadblocks to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with UI/UX, frontend, backend, sales and customer success.
• Support design and validate fidelity to product designs.
• Lead with a data-driven approach to prioritize work and resolve complex issues.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to inform future product directions.

Skills

PM experience

Technical background

PM methodologies

Communication skills

Organization & strategy

Collaboration

Adaptability

Problem solving

Education

BS/MS/PhD in deeply technical field

Tools

Sefaira

Insight360

Cove tool

Ladybug tools

DesignBuilder

IES VE

OpenStudio

EnergyPlus

eQuest

Trane Trace 3D

TestFit

Job description

About the Role

This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.

As a Technical Engineering Program Manager at PassiveLogic, you will support engineering teams by creating and maintaining the roadmaps for the products they build. You will provide guidance on initiatives and priorities, balancing long-term goals and near-term product releases.

What you’ll do

• Help engineering teams move forward when complexity slows progress: Leverage your technical knowledge to clear roadblocks and fill knowledge gaps in the teams you support, ensuring that the products you are responsible for provide value to customers and are released on schedule. Approach problem‑solving with a bias for action and a data‑driven methodology, making sound decisions even in imperfect situations.
• Lead Product Strategy and Engineering Execution: Define and implement product roadmaps, guiding engineering teams through structured work streams to meet development goals. Make strategic decisions with a focus on long‑term success and maintaining accountability to the bigger picture.
• Drive Product Roadmaps with a Focus on Exceptional User Experience: Leverage your passion for user experience design to shape product roadmaps to create innovative, user‑centric solutions, redefining autonomy in the built environment, while balancing design excellence and timely delivery.
• Support Design and Validate Fidelity: We start every engineering effort with design; support UI/UX and engineering teams to deliver clearly documented product designs. Validate fidelity to the design in the products the team creates.
• Give teams the visibility they need to make good decisions: Clearly communicate plans, progress, goals, and roadblocks to stakeholders, producing reporting artifacts that enable sound decision‑making.
• Innovate with Emerging Technologies: Be a go‑to expert on the latest product trends in software tools and evaluate new technology capabilities we can leverage.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in project, product, or program management.
  • A technical/engineering background, including a BS/MS/PhD or related degree in a deeply technical area (excluding programming/software bootcamps).
  • Experience using multiple project and program management techniques and understanding when to apply which methodology (waterfall, agile, Kanban, etc).
• Exceptional Communication Skills: You excel at articulating the "what" and "why" behind design decisions, ensuring team members grasp both high‑level concepts and implementation details. With a keen ability to communicate in nuance, you recognize that stated needs and actual needs may differ, allowing you to communicate with clarity, precision, and deep understanding.
• Organized and strategic: Skilled in creating project roadmaps, managing timelines, and ensuring deliverables meet both technical and user expectations.
• Collaborative mindset: Work closely with UI/UX, front end, back end, sales, and customer success teams to define work streams that align with customer releases. You will work hand in glove with the project managers to ensure the work plan supports the technical road map.
• Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast‑paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate.
• Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, rolling‑up.

You should have

• Experience shipping product: Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver products in a complex team environment.
• Strong project management skills: Proven expertise in aligning project execution with business goals, ensuring efficient operations and strategic impact.
• Documentation and user stories experience: A genuine passion for documentation combined with the skill to write actionable, clear, and concise user stories and test cases, ensuring teams have the resources they need for successful execution.
• Leadership abilities and aspirations: You bring a high‑energy, outgoing personality to leadership, driven by a passion for sharing knowledge, enhancing team skills, and empowering others to succeed. Committed to establishing yourself as an innovative leader and product champion, you are eager to shape and drive an industry‑disrupting product ecosystem.
• Commitment to continual self‑investment in product development: A track record of staying up to date with emerging trends in product development and engineering management, demonstrating a commitment to personal and professional growth.
• Alignment with Leadership: Ability to stay closely aligned with leadership (including the CEO) throughout the development process to ensure product vision and goals are met.
• Passion for Design and Sustainability: Strong passion for human‑centered design, sustainability, and green building, integrating these values into product development and decision‑making.

It’s helpful to have

• Technical knowledge: Understanding of software tools in the fields of architecture, energy modeling, building design, etc. (tools like Sefaira, Insight360, Cove tool, Ladybug tools, DesignBuilder, IES VE, OpenStudio, EnergyPlus, eQuest, Trane Trace 3D, TestFit, etc)
  • Ability to convey the strengths and weaknesses of the above software tools to those with limited experience
• Experience with
  • Designing mixed‑methodology research
  • Mapping qualitative to quantitative data
  • Using synthesis to drive impactful insight.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Generous equity share package
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Disability and life Insurance options
• Flex PTO
• Team‑building events
• Free catered lunch in the office Monday — Friday
• Free ski pass (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
• Free National Park pass

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all—come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.