Principal Technical Program Manager

Hayden AI

Principal Technical Program Manager leading cross-functional visibility and delivery at Hayden AI. Engaging with executive leadership to translate business commitments into engineering capacity plans.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $213,743 - $277,866 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the company-level program portfolio — maintaining a single source of truth for commitments, capacity, dependencies, and status across all active lines of work.
Serve as the primary interface between executive leadership and engineering teams, translating business commitments (contracts, growth targets, customer deployments) into engineering capacity plans and surfacing tradeoffs before they become misses.
Design and maintain the dashboards, cadences, and reporting frameworks that give the senior leadership clear, accurate visibility into portfolio health without noise.
Partner with engineering leads across Hardware, Perception, Platform/Cloud, and Eng Ops to maintain a real-time view of capacity versus committed demand, and drive prioritization decisions when they conflict.
Drive end-to-end delivery of strategic programs that span multiple engineering pillars and business functions, including customer-facing deployments, new product launches, and operational scaling initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in an engineering discipline
12+ years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or a related role
Demonstrated track record managing a portfolio of concurrent, cross-functional programs in a fast-moving environment
Experience navigating business-engineering tension: translating contracts, revenue commitments, or customer obligations into engineering capacity and sequencing decisions
Technical fluency across multiple domains — enough to engage credibly with hardware, embedded, cloud, and AI engineering teams without domain specialists present
Strong executive communication skills: structured, direct, and able to distill complex program status into clear decisions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Options for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (for US employees)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA)
401(k) with 3% company matching
Unlimited PTO
Daily catered lunches in our San Francisco office

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Hard Skills & Tools

Technical Program ManagementEngineering Program ManagementPortfolio ManagementCapacity PlanningReporting FrameworksDashboard DesignCross-Functional Program ManagementOperational ScalingCustomer DeploymentsNew Product Launches

Soft Skills

Executive CommunicationStakeholder ManagementDecision MakingConflict ResolutionTranslation of Business CommitmentsStructured CommunicationComplex Problem SolvingPrioritizationInterpersonal SkillsLeadership

Certifications

B.S. in EngineeringM.S. in EngineeringPh.D. in Engineering