Principal Technical Program Manager

Work Arrangement

• The listed location type is hybrid.
• The description identifies a San Francisco headquarters office.

Compensation

• The compensation range is $213,743–$277,866.
• The role offers equity and a company-wide bonus plan.

About Hayden AI

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Own the company-level program portfolio and maintain commitments, capacity, dependencies, and status across active work.
• Translate business commitments into engineering capacity plans and surface tradeoffs before delivery misses occur.
• Design dashboards, operating cadences, and reporting frameworks for senior leadership portfolio visibility.
• Maintain a real-time view of engineering capacity versus committed demand across hardware, perception, platform/cloud, and engineering operations.
• Drive prioritization decisions when capacity and demand conflict.
• Deliver strategic programs spanning engineering pillars and business functions, including deployments, product launches, and operational scaling.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree in an engineering discipline.
• At least 12 years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or a related role.
• Experience managing concurrent, cross-functional programs in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience translating contracts, revenue commitments, or customer obligations into capacity and sequencing decisions.
• Technical fluency across hardware, embedded, cloud, and AI engineering domains.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to turn complex status into clear decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with on-vehicle, edge-deployed, or ruggedized systems.
• Background in computer vision, autonomous systems, robotics, or AI/ML programs.
• Experience delivering technology to government or municipal clients.
• Familiarity with fleet management, secure transaction systems, or sensor hardware platforms.
• Experience building processes in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.

Benefits and Perks

• The company describes learning and development opportunities from a diverse and technically experienced peer group.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage options for employees and dependents in the United States.
• Additional benefits include flexible spending accounts, dependent care flexible spending, a 401(k) with 3% company matching, unlimited paid time off, and catered San Francisco office lunches.