Technical Program Manager

FORT Robotics; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

FORT Robotics is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive end-to-end delivery across product and engineering. Reporting to the Director of Technical Program Management, you will own cross-functional initiatives, keep programs on track, surface risks, and align teams.

This high-impact individual contributor role sits at the intersection of Product and Engineering; you will partner with engineering leads and product managers to ensure the right things are built the right way and communicated

Qualifications

• 4 - 7 years of experience in product, program, or project management in hardware and/or software.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programs in robotics or industrial tech is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile and stage-gate delivery methodologies and applying the right approach.
• Strong communication to translate technical complexity into clear stakeholder updates.
• Comfortable in a high-growth environment with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the planning, execution, and delivery of cross-functional programs through the full lifecycle.
• Build and maintain roadmaps with visibility into priorities, dependencies, milestones, and risks.
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Sales through structured reviews.
• Apply program management processes and tools, keeping practices lean and audit-ready.
• Identify blockers and resource constraints and resolve them before delivery risks arise.
• Partner with engineering leads and product managers to ensure scope and commitments are met.
• Provide timely program status updates to teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Champion ownership, clarity, and continuous improvement within programs.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile & stage-gate

Stakeholder communication

Robotics domain knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

monday.com

Job description

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive execution across our product and engineering organizations. Reporting to the Director of Technical Program Management, you will own the end-to-end delivery of cross‑functional initiatives: keeping programs and projects on track, risks visible, and teams aligned.

This is a high‑impact individual contributor role at the intersection of Product and Engineering; perfect for someone who thrives in complexity, moves fast without losing rigor, and knows how to hold a program together across multiple teams. You will be a trusted partner to engineering leads and product managers, ensuring the right things get built the right way.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the planning, execution, and delivery of assigned cross‑functional programs through the entire lifecycle.
• Build and maintain project and program roadmaps that give stakeholders clear visibility into priorities, dependencies, milestones, and risks.
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Sales through structured planning cycles, reviews, and release coordination.
• Apply and contribute to FORT’s program management processes and tooling: keeping things lean, repeatable, and audit‑ready.
• Identify and proactively resolve blockers, dependencies, and resource constraints before they become delivery risks.
• Partner with engineering leads and product managers to ensure customer commitments are scoped, tracked, and met.
• Provide timely, accurate program status updates to teams, stakeholders, and leadership to enable faster, better‑informed decisions.
• Champion a culture of ownership, clarity, and continuous improvement within the programs you run.

Cultural Expectations

• Accomplish the Impossible: Set ambitious delivery goals and create the structures that help teams achieve them even when the path isn’t obvious.
• Own Your Priorities: Take accountability for program outcomes end‑to‑end, not just process compliance.
• Build Together: Earn trust across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Operations and help those teams work as one.
• Think Out Loud: Create visibility, communicate risks early, and make it safe for teams to surface problems before they become crises.
• Deliver a Customer Experience Worthy of Loyalty: Understand that every program outcome has a customer on the other end and that our reputation for delivery is a competitive advantage.

Qualifications

• 4 - 7 years of experience in product, program, or project management, ideally in a fast‑moving hardware and/or software product environment.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross‑functional programs in robotics, autonomy, industrial tech, or similar environments strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with both Agile and stage‑gate delivery methodologies, and the judgment to apply the right one in the right context.
• Strong communicator able to translate technical complexity into clear, actionable stakeholder updates and hold teams accountable with clarity and respect.
• Comfortable operating in a high‑growth environment where priorities shift quickly, and ambiguity is the norm, not the exception.
• Familiarity with safety‑critical or regulated product development environments is a plus.

Preferred

• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, monday.com, or similar program management platforms.
• Background working in a company scaling through internal growth and/or acquisitions, with awareness of process maturity and documentation standards.
• PMP or equivalent certification is a plus, but not required.