Technical Project Manager (Software & Robotics Programs)

Global Connect Technologies; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Connect Technologies in North Reading, MA is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the execution of complex software and robotics programs.

You will partner with software and hardware teams to drive roadmap execution, manage release plans, dependencies and risk, and provide regular program health updates to leadership. This hands-on role requires strong communication and the ability to remove blockers across multiple cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Technical Program/Project Management experience supporting software engineering teams.
• Proven experience delivering software products, platforms, or technical programs.
• Strong understanding of PM methodologies including scope, schedule, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with complex technical dependencies.
• Strong communication, leadership reporting, and escalation management skills.
• Ability to work independently in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
• Hands-on ownership mindset with organizational and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end execution of software projects from requirements gathering through release and post-launch support.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths.
• Partner with software engineering teams to define requirements, acceptance criteria, delivery timelines, and priorities.
• Coordinate feature delivery and roadmap execution across multiple engineering workstreams.
• Manage release schedules, readiness reviews, launch activities, and follow-up actions.
• Track project health through dashboards, KPIs, SLAs, risk registers, dependency trackers, and status reports.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project progress, risks, mitigation plans, and key decisions.
• Identify and proactively resolve project risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies.
• Facilitate planning sessions, dependency reviews, risk assessments, and release readiness meetings.
• Drive accountability and alignment across software, firmware, systems, controls, QA, operations, and support teams.
• Support technical discussions, delivery planning, estimation reviews, and execution trade-offs.

Skills

Technical project management

Software engineering coordination

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

Asana

Aha!

Tableau

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead the execution of complex software and robotics programs. The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering teams to drive roadmap execution, feature delivery, release planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and program health tracking. This role requires a hands-on leader who can bring structure to complex initiatives, remove blockers, and ensure predictable delivery across multiple cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilitie

• sDrive end-to-end execution of software projects from requirements gathering through release and post-launch support
• .Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths
• .Partner with software engineering teams to define requirements, acceptance criteria, delivery timelines, and priorities
• .Coordinate feature delivery and roadmap execution across multiple engineering workstreams
• .Manage release schedules, readiness reviews, launch activities, and follow-up actions
• .Track project health through dashboards, KPIs, SLAs, risk registers, dependency trackers, and status reports
• .Provide regular updates to leadership on project progress, risks, mitigation plans, and key decisions
• .Identify and proactively resolve project risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies
• .Facilitate planning sessions, dependency reviews, risk assessments, and release readiness meetings
• .Drive accountability and alignment across software, firmware, systems, controls, QA, operations, and support teams
• .Support technical discussions, delivery planning, estimation reviews, and execution trade-offs

.Required Qualificatio

• ns3+ years of Technical Program/Project Management experience supporting software engineering team
• s.Proven experience delivering software products, platforms, or technical program
• s.Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including scope, schedule, risk, dependency, and stakeholder managemen
• t.Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with complex technical dependencie
• s.Strong communication, leadership reporting, and escalation management skill
• s.Ability to work independently in fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• s.Strong ownership mindset with excellent organizational and problem-solving abilitie

s.Preferred Qualificati

• onsExperience in robotics, automation, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or embedded software environmen
• ts.Familiarity with software development lifecycles, firmware, controls systems, simulation, perception, planning, or distributed syste
• ms.Experience managing release governance, launch readiness, incident management, and postmortem activiti
• es.Proven track record of recovering at-risk projects through effective planning and stakeholder alignme
• nt.Hands-on experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Asana, Aha!, Tableau, or similar platfor