Technical Program Manager, Robotics & Supply Chain

Caraa; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Eastern Time Zone alignment

Job summary

Gather AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to design the operating system by which a growing robotics company plans, prioritizes, and delivers across engineering teams. This is an individual contributor role reporting into engineering leadership, with potential to grow into broader PM leadership over time.

The role requires hands-on hardware experience and 5+ years in engineering and technical program leadership, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration, roadmapping, and managing

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with hardware or hardware-plus-software systems.
• 5+ years of combined engineering and technical program leadership experience, with a track record driving complex hardware, robotics, or ML-based programs.
• Experience mapping cross-functional dependencies and establishing operating cadences from scratch.
• Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams and translate requirements into milestones and roadmaps.
• Familiarity with Jira or Linear and cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and roll out a program-tracking system across concurrent R&D programs, with clear owners, milestones, and risk visibility
• Build a prioritization framework with explicit trade-offs whenever new customer-driven scope arrives
• Map cross-team dependencies across hardware, ML, and software before they become blockers
• Establish a standard escalation and post-mortem rhythm for customer go-lives, with a single named owner for each program
• Own the prioritization and roadmap operating cadence across R&D
• Drive deployment-efficiency and configuration-management improvements with Customer Success

Skills

Hardware experience

Program leadership

Prioritization frameworks

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira

Linear

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Gather AI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to design the operating system by which a growing robotics company plans, prioritizes, and delivers across engineering teams. This is an individual contributor role reporting into engineering leadership, with potential to grow into broader PM leadership over time.

The role requires hands-on hardware experience and 5+ years in engineering and technical program leadership, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration, roadmapping, and managing