Technical Manager Jobs in North Reading, MA

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 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.