Principal Technical Program Manager

Sparq

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves owning cross-initiative coordination throughout a 90-day engagement, ensuring continuity across baseline development, dossier creation, solution demonstrations, and performance measurement. The Principal Technical Program Manager will lead a blended program team, including client engineers, Sparq team members, and a technology partner, ensuring alignment on responsibilities, dependencies, and deliverables. A key aspect of the role is defining and maintaining the engagement’s definition of done, managing executive demonstrations, and partnering closely with engineering teams to evaluate scope, dependencies, risks, and estimates. The position also requires driving access approvals, serving as the primary interface to parallel AI product development initiatives, and coordinating delivery within the client’s internal continuous integration and release processes. Active use of AI tools, such as Claude through the Anthropic partnership, is expected to streamline tasks, improve work quality, and champion AI adoption. Maintaining visibility into program progress and keeping stakeholders aligned is crucial.

Requirements

• Consultative approach and problem solving skills to successfully align digital solutions with long-term business goals of the client
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance daily work, or a strong desire to do so, including a willingness to experiment, learn, and champion AI adoption within your role
• Commitment to understanding and exceeding client expectations
• Ability to perform project oversight and execution of deliverables
• Flexibility to adapt within a high-growth organization
• Ability to lead, mentor and motivate those around them
• Hunger for continuous learning and professional development
• Intellectual curiosity to provide creative solutions
• Full understanding of the software development life cycle
• Ability to positively impact fellow colleagues through effective leadership, presentations, coaching, etc.
• Desire to work in a team environment
• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Excited to explore, adopt, and evangelize AI tools and methodologies.
• Experience in AI or a proven track record of rapidly learning and mentoring others on emerging tech.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-initiative coordination throughout the 90-day engagement, providing continuity across baseline development, dossier creation, solution demonstrations, and performance measurement.
• Lead a blended program team consisting of client engineers, Sparq team members, and a technology partner, ensuring alignment across responsibilities, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Define and maintain the engagement’s definition of done, ensuring expectations remain clear and consistent as priorities and requirements evolve.
• Run the two-week executive demonstration cadence with the client’s Online VP sponsor, determining what is ready to demonstrate and ensuring each session communicates meaningful progress.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to evaluate scope, dependencies, risks, and estimates, using sufficient technical depth to challenge assumptions and support informed decisions.
• Drive access approvals across repository, Atlassian, and Code Climate pathways, proactively removing blockers that could affect delivery.
• Serve as the primary interface to three parallel AI product development lifecycle initiatives outside the engagement’s direct scope, managing dependencies and preventing duplication or misalignment.
• Actively use AI tools, including Claude through our Anthropic partnership, to streamline tasks, improve the quality of your work, and share best practices with teammates while continuously seeking new ways to integrate AI into your everyday workflows.
• Coordinate delivery within the client’s required internal continuous integration and release processes, ensuring the team accounts for governance and deployment requirements.
• Maintain visibility into program progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes while keeping executive sponsors and delivery stakeholders aligned throughout the engagement.

Benefits

• Ongoing investment in your growth through training, mentorship, and industry certifications
• Hands-on exposure to cutting-edge technologies across multiple industries
• Recognition programs and employee awards within an inclusive culture that celebrates great work, including our AI Innovators Program
• Remote or hybrid work options
• Competitive salary + bonus opportunities
• Robust benefits package
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Substantial PTO
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed