Staff Technical Program Manager (R6183)
San Diego · Dallas · San Mateo · USD 150,000-230,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 26, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Diego · Dallas · San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 150,000-230,000 / year
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to own end-to-end delivery of large, multi-workstream technology programs.
- The role involves defining program structure, roadmaps, and delivery strategies in partnership with business and technology leadership.
- The candidate will lead and coordinate multiple project managers, workstream leads, and vendor teams under an integrated program plan.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of large, multi-workstream technology programs, including enterprise platform implementations, ERP and business system rollouts, cloud and infrastructure migrations, identity and security programs, and system integrations.
- Define program structure, roadmap, phasing, and delivery strategy in partnership with business and technology leadership, including shaping scope and sequencing before execution begins.
- Lead and coordinate multiple project managers, workstream leads, and vendor teams under a single integrated program plan.
- Drive technical delivery conversations across architecture, integrations, data migration, environments, security, testing, and cutover, and challenge technical plans and estimates when risks aren't adequately addressed.
- Establish and run program governance, including steering committees, executive reporting, decision forums, and escalation paths, and present directly to senior leadership.
- Own program-level risk management and proactively identify systemic risks, cross-program dependencies, and resource conflicts across the portfolio.
- Manage program budgets, forecasts, and resource plans, and own variance explanations and tradeoff recommendations.
- Lead vendor and systems integrator management, including SOW scoping, performance management, milestone acceptance, and escalation of delivery gaps.
- Own go-live readiness decisions, including readiness criteria, cutover strategy, rollback planning, and hypercare exit.
- Partner with OCM to ensure change, communications, training, and adoption are built into program plans from the start.
Requirements
- 8+ years of project or program management experience, including 5+ years leading complex technology programs with multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise technology programs through go-live and stabilization.
- Strong technical fluency across enterprise architecture, integrations and APIs, data migration, infrastructure and cloud, security controls, and SDLC/testing practices.
- Experience owning program governance and presenting directly to executive stakeholders and steering committees.
- Demonstrated experience managing vendors and systems integrators, including SOW oversight and delivery accountability.
- Experience managing program budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
- Ability to lead through influence across engineering, IT, business, and vendor organizations without direct authority.
- Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to simplify complexity and drive decisions.
Preferred qualifications
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification is a plus.
- Experience delivering technology programs in defense, aerospace, or other highly regulated environments, including familiarity with compliance and security frameworks such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, DFARS, or FedRAMP.
- Experience building or maturing PMO practices, standards, or tooling.
- Experience leading programs across IT, Enterprise Operations, and Cybersecurity simultaneously.
- Background as an engineer, solutions architect, systems administrator, or technical lead before moving into program management.
- Familiarity with Agile at scale, hybrid delivery models, and tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, or ServiceNow SPM.
- Experience partnering with OCM functions on enterprise adoption.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
Skills
- ERP
- APIs
- Security Controls
- SDLC
- Jira
- Smartsheet
- ServiceNow SPM
- Agile
- CMMC
- NIST 800-171
- ITAR
- DFARS
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- FedRAMP
