Technical Program Manager

Skild AI • San Mateo, CA

5d • $100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Skild AI is building general-purpose robotic intelligence designed to adapt to unseen scenarios and support widespread robot deployment. The Technical Program Manager will own delivery across programs that scale the company’s robots to new customer sites, applications, and robot types. The role manages product releases, hardware builds, and customer deployments that bring robotics hardware, foundation models, and fleet software into production. The position reports to the Senior Director of Product & Engineering and works closely with engineering, product, and operations leaders. The role owns program planning, tracking, and delivery, and provides leadership with visibility into progress, risks, and trade-offs. It also offers the opportunity to shape company execution and grow the program management function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of technical program management experience on hardware and/or software products.
• Proven track record of shipping physical products end to end in robotics, consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, or a similar field, including sustaining releases after launch.
• Experience managing programs across multiple cross-functional teams with external dependencies.
• Experience running programs that span hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services, with enough technical depth to challenge estimates and spot integration risks.
• Experience establishing and scaling program management and Agile practices in a fast-paced, growing company.
• Hands-on experience configuring Linear and Notion, or similar tools such as Jira and Confluence, and building dashboards leaders rely on.
• Ability to build strong relationships with engineering, product, and executive leaders and drive decisions without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

• Scripting or automation skills.
• Scrum Master or PMP certification.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of concurrent programs, from software releases to hardware builds and customer deployments, and hold teams to clear commitments and milestones.
• Coordinate dependencies across engineering, product, and operations so work lands in the right order.
• Surface schedule, technical, and resourcing risks early, drive mitigation, and present trade-offs to leadership with clear options.
• Lead roadmap and quarterly planning with engineering leads so commitments match team capacity.
• Run and refine lightweight, Agile-aligned processes for planning, release readiness, and retrospectives, tailored to each team’s size and maturity.
• Build dashboards and run program reviews that give leadership a single, trusted view of status, risk, and capacity.
• Write clear program updates, decision memos, and post-mortems.
• Own and evolve how the company uses Linear and Notion so plans, dependencies, and decisions are easy to track and find.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior