
Principal Technical Program Manager
Hayden AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United 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