Technical Program Manager (Cleared) at Swoop

About Swoop: Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. Your Impact: As a Technical Program Manager at Swoop, you will represent Swoop as the connective tissue across internal and external stakeholders. You will serve as a bridge between customers and Swoop engineering by understanding the customer's mission, translating complex customer requirements, and advocating for their needs internally. You will manage critical program timelines and effectively communicate with technical and non-technical parties to ensure customers unlock the full value of SwoopOS. The technical programs you lead will usher in the future and the advantage our customers gain by harnessing real-time data processing at the edge and much more. What You’ll Do: - Be a part of our early customer engagement team and sales cycle, responsible to understand both technical and business needs and goals and translating them to engineering and deployment actions - Manage and own the outcome of Swoop’s delivery to customers. From scoping and ensuring proper SOW execution, to engineering oversight and driving necessary deliverables, to the minutia around deployment logistics - Operate as point of contact for engaged customers providing product details, program updates, having technical or operational discussions, solving problems, and driving necessary communication across internal and external parties - Plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate clearly with project stakeholders - Have ownership and responsibility of timeline execution, logistics (people and product) for successful deployments - Communicate and coordinate with multiple internal stakeholders - Engineering, Deployment, Ops, Business - Manage and lead tabletop exercises prior to customer deployments - Ability and interest to travel. Up to 50+% You Should Have: - 4+ yrs of experience in Program Management on technical cross-functional projects which includes working directly with engineering teams - Active US Security Clearance - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience - A passion for problem solving and ability to move projects forward through deadlocks and constraints by finding solutions reached by good judgment - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals Bonus if you have: - Prior experience as a software engineer or developer role with knowledge of software development lifecycles Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.