Technical Program Manager

The role

You will own program management for all product development activity. You will oversee product activity from roadmap to release across engineering, research, product, and domain-expert teams.

What you will do

• Plan, track, and drive deliverables, milestones, and deadlines across teams.
• Run the operating cadence including sprint planning, standups, launch reviews, and leadership status updates.
• Build and maintain roadmaps, timelines, and cross-team dependency maps.
• Identify risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps and drive them to resolution.
• Coordinate product launches end-to-end.
• Serve as the communication hub between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish lightweight, scalable program management processes and tooling standards.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, or similar role driving complex, cross-functional technical programs.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational and scheduling ability.
• Sufficient technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers on scope, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Proven track record of shipping.
• Fluency with modern program management and collaboration tooling (Linear, Jira, Notion, or similar).
• Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity.
• BS degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML products
• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup where you built program management practices from scratch.
• Experience managing programs involving ML/LLM product development — model releases, evaluation cycles, or data pipelines.
• Familiarity with enterprise software delivery in regulated domains (finance, audit, compliance, healthcare).
• Experience coordinating launches involving both software engineering and subject-matter-expert workflows.

About the company

Nace AI is an applied research and product company that delivers Sovereign Specialized Intelligence. They equip enterprises with a comprehensive AI stack to build customized, secure intelligence.