Job Title: Technical Program Manager
Job Description
We are seeking a software-focused Technical Program Manager to drive execution across complex robotics software programs. This role will support roadmap execution, feature delivery, release coordination, dependency management, program health tracking, and leadership reporting. The ideal candidate is a senior, execution-driven TPM who can work directly with software engineering teams, bring structure to ambiguous work, manage critical dependencies, and communicate clearly with technical and leadership stakeholders. This role requires someone who can do more than track status; the TPM must actively drive delivery, surface risks early, unblock teams, and maintain predictable execution across multiple workstreams.
Responsibilities
Drive end-to-end execution of software initiatives from requirements intake through release readiness and post-launch validation.
Build and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, owners, and critical path.
Partner with engineering leads to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, sequence work, and manage delivery tradeoffs.
Coordinate roadmap execution and feature delivery across software teams with interdependent deliverables.
Manage release schedules, readiness reviews, launch criteria, and follow-up actions.
Develop and maintain program health mechanisms, including dashboards, KPI/SLA tracking, dependency trackers, risk registers, and status reports.
Provide concise, structured updates to leadership on progress, risks, blockers, mitigation plans, and decision points.
Identify delivery risks early, drive mitigation plans, and escalate with clear options and tradeoffs.
Maintain visibility into schedule health, execution confidence, open issues, and cross-team dependencies.
Coordinate across software engineering, firmware, controls, systems engineering, QA/test, operations, deployment, support, and other partner teams as needed.
Drive alignment across teams with competing priorities, technical dependencies, and shifting timelines.
Facilitate execution cadences such as planning reviews, dependency reviews, risk reviews, and release readiness reviews.
Create clear ownership, follow-through, and accountability across workstreams without relying on direct authority.
Translate stakeholder goals and program needs into actionable delivery plans.
Understand software development lifecycles well enough to challenge assumptions, clarify estimates, identify dependency risk, and support technical tradeoff discussions.
Support delivery in complex environments such as robotics, automation, embedded systems, controls, platform services, distributed systems, or hardware/software integrated products.
Essential Skills
3+ years of Technical Program Management/Technical Project Management experience supporting software engineering teams.
Proven experience driving delivery of software products, platforms, features, or technical capabilities.
Strong program management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, dependency, risk, issue, quality, and critical path management.
Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams with critical technical dependencies.
Experience coordinating roadmap execution, engineering milestones, and release schedules.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including leadership-facing status reporting and escalation management.
Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.
Strong ownership, follow-through, bias for action, and ability to drive accountability across teams.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Experience in robotics, automation, manipulation systems, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or fulfillment/logistics technology.
Experience working with software, firmware, controls, embedded systems, simulation, perception, planning, fleet management, platform services, or distributed systems teams.
Experience defining, tracking, and reporting KPIs, SLAs, or program health metrics.
Experience with release governance, launch readiness, operational readiness, incident management, or postmortem mechanisms.
Experience recovering at-risk programs through replanning, stakeholder alignment, dependency resolution, and risk burn-down.
Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Asana, Aha, Tableau, Quip, or similar program tracking and reporting tools.
Work Environment
This position is fully onsite at our North Reading location. Employees enjoy the benefits of a focused and collaborative environment with FTC benefits, including 15 PTO days and 7 holidays.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of North Reading, MA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $80.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: - Medical, dental & vision - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) - Short and long-term disability - Health Spending Account (HSA) - Transportation benefits - Employee Assistance Program - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in North Reading,MA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 5, 2026.
About Actalent
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