Senior Technical Program Manager, Radar Systems Hybrid in Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Technical Program Manager, Radar Systems

Drive the cross-functional execution that moves next-generation AI-enabled radar hardware from concept through production and customer delivery.

Matrix Space develops AI-enabled radar sensing systems that combine advanced radar, edge computing, AI, and cloud software to provide situational awareness where traditional sensing solutions fall short.

We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems to drive planning and execution across our radar and RF hardware development teams. You'll own the unified hardware execution plan across Radar Systems, bringing product requirements, design milestones, prototypes, builds, qualification, production readiness, customer-program commitments, and software-support needs together through one clear execution process.

This role requires leading through influence in a matrixed organization. The ideal candidate will not need direct reporting authority over engineers to be effective; instead, you will earn trust, create clarity, run the execution process, surface conflicts early, and drive follow-through.

If you enjoy bringing structure to complex hardware programs, connecting teams around a common plan, and turning ambitious priorities into clear and executable work, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Participate early in program formation to test execution assumptions, resource needs, dependencies, schedules, and major risks before significant commitments are made.
• Own and maintain the unified hardware execution plan, reflecting approved business priorities and Engineering resource commitments in coordinated schedules, dependencies, builds, milestones, readiness gates, and clear escalation paths across Radar/RF development teams.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, and customer programs to integrate requirements, suppliers, manufacturing, qualification, production readiness, software enablement, and deployment readiness into one executable plan.
• Partner with technical leaders to translate approved priorities into clear work packages, establishing an efficient operating cadence for integrated planning, readiness, dependency, risk, and milestone reviews.
• Test whether integrated plans are credible by validating resource commitments, schedule assumptions, dependencies, and major risks; surface gaps early and elevate when scope, resources, or schedule are misaligned.
• Track execution, communicate progress and risks to leadership, drive cross-functional execution issues and roadblocks to resolution, establish clear escalation paths when execution moves off plan, and continuously improve planning processes to increase visibility and predictability.
• Lead through influence across a matrixed organization, ensuring execution discipline without becoming a shadow engineering manager or replacing functional technical leadership.
• Lead cross-functional phase-gate reviews from feasibility through production. Coordinate required deliverables and functional signoffs, assess program readiness against defined gate criteria, document decisions and open actions, and elevate unmet criteria to the designated decision-makers before a program advances.
• Lead and coordinate ISO, quality-system, and other applicable certification and compliance audits, partnering across Engineering, Quality, Operations, and other functions to ensure audit readiness, close findings, and maintain required certifications.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience managing complex hardware development programs, technical programs, or cross-functional engineering initiatives in technically complex product environments.
• Strong understanding of hardware product-development life cycles and experience…