{"id":927078,"url":"https://alion.io/job/drivemode-senior-technical-program-manager-contract","title":"Senior Technical Program Manager (Contract)","company":{"id":327621,"name":"Drivemode","domain":"drivemode.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/drivemode","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":70,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0.5,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mountain View, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":75,"max":100,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-15T05:59:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T01:13:05Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":15},"description":"About This Role:\nDrivemode is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, Program Intelligence to lead a critical transformation initiative focused on how complex programs are understood, governed, measured, and improved. This is not a traditional program-coordination role. The Contractor will work across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, and TPM/PMO to establish durable systems that connect requirements, scope changes, technical execution, validation, program economics, and business outcomes.\nThe mission: build the operating intelligence layer that helps Drivemode answer, feature by feature and program by program: What are we building? Why? What changed? What systems are affected? What did the change cost in capacity or schedule? How was it implemented and validated? What risk remains? What outcome did the investment produce?\nThis is an initial six-month contractor engagement. Based on business need, demonstrated performance, and measurable outcomes, Drivemode may consider a mutually agreed extension of up to six additional months. If exceptional results are demonstrated and key outcomes are achieved ahead of or by the end of the engagement, Drivemode may also separately consider the individual for a full-time opportunity. Neither an extension nor employment is guaranteed; any future engagement would be subject to separate approvals and agreement.\nResponsibilities:\nRequirements Governance & End-to-End Traceability \nDesign and establish a scalable requirements-governance model covering ownership, baseline, lifecycle, versioning, approval, and change history.\nCreate clear relationships among business, product, system, technical, implementation, and validation artifacts.\nChange Request Management & Impact Intelligence\nDesign and establish a structured Change Request (CR) operating model covering intake, classification, analysis, decision, approval, and closure.\nConnect each material CR to affected requirements, features, services, APIs, dependencies, implementation scope, validation scope, and committed milestones.\nInternal Program Intelligence Platform\nHelp define and evolve Drivemode’s internal Program Intelligence Platform from a traceability/reporting capability into a program-intelligence and decision-support system.\nConnect approved data across requirements, Change Requests, Jira, source control, validation systems, release information, program milestones, quality signals, and outcome metrics.\nAI-Enabled Program Intelligence & Automation\nDesign and build purpose-built AI-enabled tools, agents, and analytical workflows that operate on approved program data and integrate with Drivemode’s internal systems.\nGo beyond general-purpose AI assistants for writing or summarization; use AI as an engineering capability for program intelligence.\nTechnical Interface & Dependency Traceability\nImprove program-level visibility into APIs, services, mobile/backend interfaces, data flows, and external-system dependencies for priority GCA scope.\nConnect technical interfaces and dependencies to requirements, Change Requests, and implementation scope.\nProgram Economics, KPIs & Decision Support\nDevelop practical mechanisms for understanding where engineering and QA capacity is being consumed at the feature or initiative level.\nMeasure or estimate the impact of requirement churn, Change Requests, rework, defects, delivery variance, and scope growth.\nWhat We Are Looking For:\n8+ years of relevant experience spanning technical program management, technical product management, solution architecture, software engineering, platform programs, or similar work.\nStrong technical fluency in backend/distributed systems, APIs, mobile/backend integration, and cross-system dependencies.\nDemonstrated ability to translate business or product intent into technical structures, execution plans, interfaces, and measurable outcomes.\nHands-on experience building internal tools, automation, dashboards, or analytical systems using APIs and program data.\nApplied AI/agent experience is strongly preferred, especially building integrated workflows or services rather than only using general-purpose assistants.\nStrong systems thinking: ability to connect requirements, technical execution, validation, delivery, and business impact.\nExcellent judgment and communication across Product, Engineering, QA, Architecture, TPM/PMO, and senior leadership.\nComfort operating autonomously in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment and leaving behind durable systems.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4488,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Office Management","Web Design","UI/UX Design"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-15T08:11:08Z"}],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.618,"p_room":1,"age_days":15,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/drivemode-senior-technical-program-manager-contract","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/drivemode-senior-technical-program-manager-contract.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T11:14:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2791,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2209,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}