Hayden AI

Principal Technical Program Manager

Hayden AI

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $213,743 - $277,866 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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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