Sr. Technical Program Manager

Team: Project Management

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Own and maintain the master program schedule, ensuring subsystem milestones are clearly defined, tracked, and delivered without unnecessary cost overruns.
• Serve as the primary program contact for the U.S. government stakeholder, providing clear updates on progress, risks, milestones, and other critical developments.
• Identify technical, operational, and organizational blockers early and coordinate rapid solutions to prevent delays.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering and technical teams, ensuring dependencies are understood and integration activities happen efficiently and on schedule.
• Manage program resources, including personnel and specialized equipment, to prioritize critical-path activities and support timely delivery.
• Continuously assess program and system risks, anticipate potential schedule or budget impacts, and develop recovery strategies before issues affect delivery.
• Improve processes, workflows, and validation practices to increase the reliability, efficiency, and repeatability of hardware development and deployment.
• Coordinate complex hardware-software development activities while maintaining accountability for timelines, budgets, and overall program outcomes.
• Support vendor and supply-chain activities as needed to ensure third-party deliverables remain aligned with program milestones and requirements.
• Communicate program priorities, decisions, dependencies, and risks clearly to technical teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.
• Promote disciplined execution, accountability, and effective collaboration across teams working toward shared technical objectives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in technical project or program management, ideally involving the delivery of complex hardware-software systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering programs for U.S. government organizations such as DARPA, ARPA, NIST, or similar agencies.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, including Agile, Gantt scheduling, and Critical Path Analysis, particularly in hardware environments.
• Proven experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and complex technical supply chains.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to establish accountability, maintain schedule discipline, and resolve team-level friction.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, leadership, and government stakeholders.
• Preferred experience in high-stakes industries such as aerospace, satellite engineering, quantum computing, or other environments where schedule performance has significant mission impact.
• PMP certification or an equivalent project management credential is a plus.
• Experience managing vendors and defining tool or deliverable acceptance criteria is preferred.
• Familiarity with automated validation workflows and efforts to reduce technical delivery and deployment timelines is advantageous.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment while collaborating effectively across disciplines.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and qualifications.
• Fully remote work opportunity for candidates based in the United States.
• Regular monthly or quarterly travel to Toronto as part of the role.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of advanced quantum computing hardware and highly ambitious technical programs.
• Collaborative environment bringing together engineers, researchers, technical experts, and program leaders.
• Inclusive, equitable workplace committed to creating a safe and supportive environment for employees from diverse backgrounds.
• Commitment to accessibility and reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
• Opportunity to work on challenging, high-impact programs with potential to advance technologies addressing complex global challenges.