{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4ca657536674deda2e8f0f0e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4ca657536674deda2e8f0f0e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4ca657536674deda2e8f0f0e","title":"Senior Technical Program Manager, Software Systems","description":"Help drive the execution of MatrixSpace’s AI-enabled radar systems by turning complex, cross-functional software priorities into clear plans that teams can deliver against.\n\nMatrixSpace develops AI-enabled radar and sensing systems that help people understand what's happening in the world around them. By combining advanced radar, edge computing, and AI, we deliver situational awareness in environments where traditional sensing solutions struggle.\n\nWe're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager, Software Systems to own planning and execution across our software organization. You'll bring together platform development, AI/ML, DevSecOps, UI/UX, systems integration, product commitments, and customer programs into a coordinated execution plan, working across engineering, product, program, test, and operations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll create clarity, surface conflicts early, and drive execution through influence rather than direct authority.\n\nIf you're technically fluent, comfortable challenging assumptions, and skilled at creating clarity across teams with competing priorities, we'd love to talk.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nOwn and maintain the integrated software execution plan across Software Systems, translating approved priorities into coordinated schedules, dependencies, releases, milestones, readiness criteria, and escalation paths.\nBring product, customer, and program commitments into a common plan for shared software resources, working with Product and Program Management to identify competing demands and resolve priority conflicts before they disrupt execution.\nLead cross-functional execution across Core Software, AI/Data Science, DevSecOps, UI/UX, Mission Systems, Test Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and Operations.\nPartner with technical leaders to turn priorities into actionable work plans, backlogs, sprint plans, release plans, and measurable milestones while leaving architecture and technical decisions with the appropriate engineering owners.\nEstablish and run an effective software planning and execution cadence, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, retrospectives, and readiness reviews, using enough process to create predictability without adding unnecessary overhead.\nIdentify cross-team dependencies, resource constraints, schedule risks, and unrealistic commitments early. Bring stakeholders together around the issue, recommend practical tradeoffs, and escalate when a decision is needed.\nGive senior leaders a clear view of execution, risks, dependencies, and decisions while continuously improving the planning mechanisms that help teams work effectively across organizational boundaries.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nThis position requires working directly or indirectly with the US Government in restricted environments. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship and may be required to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance in the future.\n\nRequired\n\n8+ years of experience leading complex software development programs, technical programs, or cross-functional engineering initiatives in technically demanding product environments.\nA track record of owning execution across multiple engineering disciplines, products, or programs where teams share resources and priorities compete.\nTechnical fluency across modern software development environments, including meaningful experience working with software engineering, AI/ML, DevSecOps, and systems integration teams.\nExperience translating complex technical and business priorities into executable plans, dependencies, milestones, release schedules, and readiness criteria.\nStrong working knowledge of Agile software development practices and hands-on experience with development planning and execution tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitHub Projects, or similar platforms.\nDemonstrated ability to influence experienced technical and business leaders without direct authority, including challenging unrealistic timelines, surfacing conflicts, and holding stakeholders accountable to agreed plans.\nThe judgment and communication skills to frame execution problems in terms of their broader system and organizational impact, present clear options and tradeoffs, and build alignment among teams with different priorities.\n\nSomeone Who Will Thrive in This Role\n\nYou create clarity when priorities, dependencies, and ownership are complicated or changing.\nYou're comfortable holding your ground with experienced, opinionated stakeholders and can push back constructively when plans or commitments aren't realistic.\nYou stay several steps ahead, recognizing how a decision or delay in one part of the software organization will affect teams elsewhere.\nYou build credibility with technical teams through curiosity, preparation, follow-through, and an understanding of where program leadership ends and technical leadership begins.\nYou care about making teams more effective, not about adding process for its own sake, and continuously look for simpler ways to make execution more visible and predictable.\n\nBonus Points\n\nExperience supporting defense, aerospace, government, or other mission-critical programs.\nExperience coordinating software delivery for products that combine software with hardware, sensors, edge computing, or other complex physical systems.\nExperience supporting customer deployments, formal readiness gates, or releases with significant integration and test requirements.\nFamiliarity with radar, sensing, autonomy, or other real-world AI-enabled systems.\n\nAt MatrixSpace, this role sits at the center of how shared software capabilities move from development into products and customer programs. You'll help technical and business leaders turn complex priorities into coordinated execution so our teams can deliver capable, reliable systems in the real world. 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By combining advanced radar, edge computing, and AI, we deliver situational awareness in environments where traditional sensing solutions struggle.\n\nWe're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager, Software Systems to own planning and execution across our software organization. You'll bring together platform development, AI/ML, DevSecOps, UI/UX, systems integration, product commitments, and customer programs into a coordinated execution plan, working across engineering, product, program, test, and operations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll create clarity, surface conflicts early, and drive execution through influence rather than direct authority.\n\nIf you're technically fluent, comfortable challenging assumptions, and skilled at creating clarity across teams with competing priorities, we'd love to talk.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nOwn and maintain the integrated software execution plan across Software Systems, translating approved priorities into coordinated schedules, dependencies, releases, milestones, readiness criteria, and escalation paths.\nBring product, customer, and program commitments into a common plan for shared software resources, working with Product and Program Management to identify competing demands and resolve priority conflicts before they disrupt execution.\nLead cross-functional execution across Core Software, AI/Data Science, DevSecOps, UI/UX, Mission Systems, Test Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and Operations.\nPartner with technical leaders to turn priorities into actionable work plans, backlogs, sprint plans, release plans, and measurable milestones while leaving architecture and technical decisions with the appropriate engineering owners.\nEstablish and run an effective software planning and execution cadence, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, retrospectives, and readiness reviews, using enough process to create predictability without adding unnecessary overhead.\nIdentify cross-team dependencies, resource constraints, schedule risks, and unrealistic commitments early. Bring stakeholders together around the issue, recommend practical tradeoffs, and escalate when a decision is needed.\nGive senior leaders a clear view of execution, risks, dependencies, and decisions while continuously improving the planning mechanisms that help teams work effectively across organizational boundaries.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\nThis position requires working directly or indirectly with the US Government in restricted environments. 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