Technical Program Coordinator
Overview
Lead high-impact, cross-functional engineering programs that shape how complex technical initiatives are planned, executed, and delivered. This role partners closely with senior engineering and product leadership to drive strategic programs across multiple teams, systems, and business lines.
The ideal candidate brings strong technical intuition, exceptional organizational skills, and a proven ability to create alignment in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. You will guide programs from strategy through delivery, manage dependencies and risks, contribute to technical discussions, and translate complex engineering concepts into clear business impact.
Required Skills
- 7+ years of experience in technical program management.
- Proven success delivering complex, multi-team or organization-wide engineering programs.
- Experience managing software programs across the full software development life cycle.
- Strong background with large-scale platform, infrastructure, or product engineering initiatives.
- Technical fluency with the ability to:
- Participate credibly in architecture and system design discussions.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs, feasibility, sequencing, and delivery risks.
- Understand distributed systems and complex technology dependencies.
- Experience influencing senior engineering and product leaders without direct authority.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations.
- Experience developing or improving program management frameworks, processes, and tools.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, establish clarity, prioritize competing demands, and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Ability to use AI tools to assess technical designs and code changes.
- Knowledge of agentic AI models and experience executing programs with AI chatbots.
- Technical understanding of:
- Wireless technologies, including 4G, 5G, and multi-WAN load balancing.
- Networking technologies, including UDP/TCP, NAT traversal, and network security such as mTLS.
- Data pipelines, including Kafka or kafkajs and Protobuf serialization.
- AWS cloud infrastructure, including API gateways.
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience working at a software company on infrastructure, platform, or product engineering programs.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts.
- Prior experience as a software engineer or in another highly technical role.
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging abilities.
- PMP, PgMP, Agile, or Scrum certification.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, business, or a related field preferred.
- 7+ years of technical program management experience, with a track record of delivering complex engineering programs at scale.
- Equivalent combinations of education and relevant technical program management experience may be considered.
Other Requirements
- This is a hybrid position based in Foster City, California.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple engineering, product, and business teams.
- Availability to begin as soon as possible.
- This is a 6-month contract opportunity.
- W2 engagement only.
