Senior Technical Program Manager, Software Systems

This position requires working directly or indirectly with the US Government in restricted environments.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship and may be required to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance in the future.

• 8+ years of experience leading complex software development programs, technical programs, or cross-functional engineering initiatives in technically demanding product environments.
• A track record of owning execution across multiple engineering disciplines, products, or programs where teams share resources and priorities compete.
• Technical fluency across modern software development environments, including meaningful experience working with software engineering, AI/ML, DevSecOps, and systems integration teams.
• Experience translating complex technical and business priorities into executable plans, dependencies, milestones, release schedules, and readiness criteria.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile software development practices and hands-on experience with development planning and execution tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, GitHub Projects, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to influence experienced technical and business leaders without direct authority, including challenging unrealistic timelines, surfacing conflicts, and holding stakeholders accountable to agreed plans.
• The judgment and communication skills to frame execution problems in terms of their broader system and organizational impact, present clear options and tradeoffs, and build alignment among teams with different priorities.

• You create clarity when priorities, dependencies, and ownership are complicated or changing.
• You're comfortable holding your ground with experienced, opinionated stakeholders and can push back constructively when plans or commitments aren't realistic.
• You stay several steps ahead, recognizing how a decision or delay in one part of the software organization will affect teams elsewhere.
• You build credibility with technical teams through curiosity, preparation, follow-through, and an understanding of where program leadership ends and technical leadership begins.
• You care about making teams more effective, not about adding process for its own sake, and continuously look for simpler ways to make execution more visible and predictable.

• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, government, or other mission-critical programs.
• Experience coordinating software delivery for products that combine software with hardware, sensors, edge computing, or other complex physical systems.
• Experience supporting customer deployments, formal readiness gates, or releases with significant integration and test requirements.
• Familiarity with radar, sensing, autonomy, or other real-world AI-enabled systems.

At MatrixSpace, this role sits at the center of how shared software capabilities move from development into products and customer programs.

You'll help technical and business leaders turn complex priorities into coordinated execution so our teams can deliver capable, reliable systems in the real world.

If that sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you.