Gather AI · 17 hours ago
Principal Technical Program Manager (Product Operations) -Pittsburgh, PA or EST based
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expGather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence with a groundbreaking platform that utilizes autonomous drones to digitize workflows. The Principal Technical Program Manager will design the operating system for planning, prioritizing, and delivering programs across engineering teams, establishing processes from scratch to enhance efficiency and coordination.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DronesLogisticsRoboticsSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Design and roll out a program-tracking system across concurrent R&D programs, with clear owners, milestones, and risk visibility
Build a prioritization framework that makes trade-offs explicit whenever new customer-driven scope arrives
Map cross-team dependencies across hardware, ML, and software before they become blockers
Establish a standard escalation and post-mortem rhythm for customer go-lives, with a single named owner for each program
Own the prioritization and roadmap operating cadence across R&D
Drive deployment-efficiency and configuration-management improvements with Customer Success
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience with hardware or hardware-plus-software systems
10 years of combined engineering and technical program leadership experience, with a track record driving complex hardware, robotics, or ML-based programs. Ideal candidates may have started in engineering and transitioned into program management, so deep program management experience across the entire career is not required
A track record standing up prioritization frameworks that force explicit trade-offs, not just a stack-ranked backlog, ideally at a scaling startup or through an equivalent 0-to-1 effort within a larger company
Experience mapping cross-functional dependencies, supporting capacity planning, and establishing operating cadences from scratch, including status readouts, escalation paths, and post-mortems
Ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, validate estimates, and drive alignment between technical execution and business objectives, with exposure to robotics, drones, computer vision, or edge and embedded hardware
Strong command of tools like Jira or Linear, translating requirements into clear milestones and roadmap plans, with working familiarity with a major cloud platform like AWS or Azure
We are open to a hybrid, flexible work arrangement for candidates who are able to work from our Pittsburgh office. For candidates who are remote, we are ideally seeking someone based in the Eastern Time Zone to align with team collaboration and business needs
Preferred
Experience with deployment or field-operations programs, including physical installs, supply chain, or hardware procurement
Background in agile or lean process facilitation and change management
PMP certification
Company
Gather AI
We deliver the foundational intelligence layer for the intralogistics industry.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
22%
Represents job field similar to this job
Management and Executive
Engineering and Development
Product Management
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (1)
2025 (4)
2024 (2)
2022 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$74.07MKey Investors
Smith Point CapitalBain Capital VenturesTribeca Venture Partners
2026-02-09Series B· $40M
2024-03-27Series A· $17M
2022-10-06Series A· $10M
Leadership Team
Sankalp Arora
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Maturana
Chief ML Scientist
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