Senior Technical Program Manager, Release, Mission Autonomy

Highlights

• Own end-to-end software releases for Air Dominance & Strike autonomy programs.
• Define quality gates and release metrics to ensure stable customer deliveries.
• Scale release processes balancing speed with stability across teams.

Ideal candidate

A proactive, highly organized program leader who thrives in ambiguity and cares deeply about product quality, blending systems thinking with bias for action to ship reliable software.

Requirements

• 4+ years managing technical programs in high-paced, mission-critical software environments
• Eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
• Understand software development lifecycles, system architectures, testing methodologies and QA principles
• Proven ability to prioritize and drive critical-path issues to resolution
• Exceptional communication, translating technical details for diverse audiences
• Data-driven mindset leveraging metrics to measure release health and quality
• Highly organized managing concurrent priorities in fast-moving environments
• Experience with release management, CI/CD pipelines and complex build systems
• Background in defense, hardware, autonomy or robotics