Senior Technical Program Manager

Uplight•Boulder, CO

8d•$113,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Uplight is creating a new category of energy by developing software that manages energy resources in homes and businesses. This software optimizes smart thermostats, electric vehicles, solar panels, storage batteries, heat pumps, and user behavior to generate, shift, or save energy, thereby balancing the grid and increasing its efficiency and reliability. This approach generates clean energy capacity, reducing the need for fossil fuels, accelerating the transition to clean energy, and lowering costs for energy consumers. The company is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to contribute to its ambitious business and environmental goals.

Requirements

5–8 years of experience managing technical programs in a software product company, with a track record of driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion
Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
Technical fluency: understanding API and data model concepts, and engaging meaningfully with engineering teams — without being a software engineer
Demonstrated ability to coordinate across teams without direct authority, using influence, structured communication, and relationships to move work forward
Strong written and verbal communication skills: clear status updates, crisp decision documents, and the ability to adjust your register for technical and non-technical audiences
Comfort with ambiguity: many programs arrive without clean definition and require you to impose structure, not wait for it
Experience working in an agile, pod-based engineering environment with multiple concurrent workstreams
Willingness and ability to collaborate with distributed teams across time zones, particularly North America and India
Proficiency with project and work management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms

Nice To Haves

Experience managing platform architecture or systems integration programs
Familiarity with device integration patterns, telemetry pipelines, IoT systems, or demand response programs
PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent program or project management certification
Prior experience working with engineering teams in India or other international locations
5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, and quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience defining KPIs and reporting to senior leadership
Proven track record of delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives while managing multiple competing priorities
Experience with data analysis to capture, process, and organize data to uncover actionable insights
Passionate about energy and the clean energy transition
Prior experience in energy tech, utility software, or adjacent domains
Background managing programs that span both US-based and India-based engineering teams

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional programs across product and engineering.
Act as the connective tissue between technical teams, managing dependencies, surfacing risks, driving decisions, and ensuring programs without a single clear owner are managed effectively.
Manage programs including OEM device integration coordination, legacy product migration, Device Information Data Model (DIDM) improvements, and internationalization vendor consolidation.
Coordinate internally across product and engineering teams, with handoffs to account managers and operations TPMs for client-facing elements.
Engage substantively with engineers at a technical level and translate technical complexity into clear communications for product and engineering leadership.
Work closely with Product Managers and engineering leads in North America and India, coordinating across time zones to maintain program alignment and momentum.
Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, and leadership to manage dependencies, resolve blockers, and maintain execution momentum.
Lead strategic initiatives including platform modernization, OEM integrations, legacy migrations, and internal systems improvements.
Build program plans, risk registers, dependency maps, executive status reports, and launch readiness criteria.
Facilitate technical decision-making and cross-functional planning across distributed engineering teams.
Translate technical complexity into clear risks, trade-offs, and recommendations for leadership.
Identify execution risks early and proactively drive resolution or escalation.
Partner closely with engineering leads and product managers to prioritize work and ensure successful delivery.
Help mature Engineering Strategy & Operations by improving program management standards, tooling, and operating practices.